April 09, 2006
For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem. In truth, however, the biggest part of the problem is neither environmental nor scientific, but a self-created political fiasco. Consider the simple fact, drawn from the official temperature records of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, that for the years 1998-2005 global average temperature did not increase (there was actually a slight decrease, though not at a rate that differs significantly from zero).Yes, you did read that right. And also, yes, this eight-year period of temperature stasis did coincide with society's continued power station and SUV-inspired pumping of yet more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
In response to these facts, a global warming devotee will chuckle and say "how silly to judge climate change over such a short period". Yet in the next breath, the same person will assure you that the 28-year-long period of warming which occurred between 1970 and 1998 constitutes a dangerous (and man-made) warming. Tosh. Our devotee will also pass by the curious additional facts that a period of similar warming occurred between 1918 and 1940, well prior to the greatest phase of world industrialisation, and that cooling occurred between 1940 and 1965, at precisely the time that human emissions were increasing at their greatest rate.
I grew up in the 1970s, when the threat we were warned about was global cooling.
Could it be that we are just seeing normal fluctuations over a typical ecological cycle?
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Bob Carter writes for a foundation funded by big oil.
Actually I have done some research and it seems that Dr Bob Carter is a propagandist. A blogger called Skeptipundit also pulls apart Bob Carter's piece from a scientific point of view.
Posted by: Wadard at Wed Apr 12 01:15:06 2006 (mu30w)
Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Wed Apr 12 10:05:48 2006 (t5B9G)
Perhaps I missed your criteria for what constitutes a religion.
I read you carrying on about the Gospel of Judas like the discovery of a document revealing life for early christians is a disaster ... if there is anyone who is a fruitbat wacko religious wing-nut it is you fruity boy. You seem to show bugger all understanding that matthew, mark, luke, and john simply won a popularity contest in 180 CE (with Iraeneus as the judge) to get into the new testament. Judas was not included because because of Roman politics and nothing else. The Gospel of Mary Magdalena was not included because none of the religious wing-nut freaks in power at the time could deal with the fact that Jesus singled her, a woman, out as for special teaching. In fact wing-nut religious freaks turned Jesus most faithful companion into a whore (like they do). It was her that witnessed the crucifiction, remember - the other apostles went to water remember. Gutless pussies.
And don't forget why Iraeneus chose only 4 out of the 30 gosples derived from those who had experienced Jesus during his life. For no other genius than there are 4 points of the compass he says. How deep is that?
Finally I want to say that the logic that support global warming is a lot more substantial and independently verifiable than the 'logic' that supports the idea of god. Oh sorry two gods. Oh, sorry, make that three gods in the one god.
So shove that in your incense pipe and smoke it you insulting bastard.
BY the way - just wondering whether you are one of the 72% of Americans who once believed that Saddam was involved in 9/11? If you are you then you are a truely a stupid fuckwit indeed. a) for believing it and b) for accusing me of basing my global warming belief on exactly that - belief.
Posted by: Wadard at Wed Apr 12 19:27:38 2006 (mu30w)
Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Wed Apr 12 22:40:26 2006 (kXlHO)
BY the way I do not see an attack on Christianity in what I wrote. If you do you are trying very hard or you are in the habit of affecting mock persecution when you don't like something. It is an insult to people who really were persecuted. Everything that I wrote is historically factual about how the bible was decided upon, by men, and about how the image of Mary Magdalena, the Apostle to the Apostles, the one as depicted in the bible who Jesus chose to announce his resurrection to, how MM was turned into a prostitute by Pope Gregory.
Posted by: Wadard at Thu Apr 13 12:01:28 2006 (mu30w)
And that you buy into the goofy Mary mMgdalene stuff tells me all I need to know about your level of understanding of Christianity and Christian history.
Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Thu Apr 13 14:21:53 2006 (k6nx7)
Posted by: Wadard at Mon Apr 17 00:21:37 2006 (mu30w)
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