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Originally posted by Cabaret Voltaire
I don't think there has ever been a time when ordinary people accepted any Chicken Little claims of climate change. It is preposterous. The mere idea of people paying money to appease the weather gods is just simple-minded poo-poo. Al Gore is funded by Russians. He is not your friend.
Originally posted by verylowfrequency
Today's global warming is just a method in which to charge you multiple times and multiple ways for the energy you use. Carbon credits, carbon taxes & green energy and so on.
The energy sellers already control the world, but now it allows more greedy sellers into the market and more manipulation of selling energy.
[edit on 12-12-2009 by verylowfrequency]
Originally posted by IrnBruFiend
I am hearing global warming so much these days I think I'm almost beginning to believe it. I don't think it matters what the public thinks about global warming. The Government just does whatever the hell it wants these days. Doesn't matter if 30,000 scientists oppose the fraudulent policy, they'll tax you anyway. Sounds like an insiduous step towards fascism. I thought Government were meant to serve the people? Pfft.
TextThe present hysteria formally began in the summer of 1988, although preparations had been put in place at least three years earlier. That was an especially warm summer in some regions, particularly in the United States. The abrupt increase in temperature in the late 1970s was too abrupt to be associated with the smooth increase in carbon dioxide. Nevertheless, James Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, in testimony before Sen. Al Gore's Committee on Science, Technology and Space, said, in effect, that he was 99 percent certain that temperature had increased and that there was some greenhouse warming. He made no statement concerning the relation between the two.
Originally posted by Tuning Spork
www.cato.org...
TextThe present hysteria formally began in the summer of 1988, although preparations had been put in place at least three years earlier. That was an especially warm summer in some regions, particularly in the United States. The abrupt increase in temperature in the late 1970s was too abrupt to be associated with the smooth increase in carbon dioxide. Nevertheless, James Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, in testimony before Sen. Al Gore's Committee on Science, Technology and Space, said, in effect, that he was 99 percent certain that temperature had increased and that there was some greenhouse warming. He made no statement concerning the relation between the two.
Earth Day II, in April of 1989, was a big deal, but I don't recall anyone mentioning "global warming" at that time. According to what I've read on the internet, the idea really got rolling in 1992 when there was an "Earth Summit" in Rio de Janiero, and a U.N. resolution about curbing carbon emissions.
I, however, don't recall hearing the term regularly until Al Gore started to devote himself full-time to the issue some time around 2003.
Originally posted by Tuning Spork
www.cato.org...
TextThe present hysteria formally began in the summer of 1988, although preparations had been put in place at least three years earlier. That was an especially warm summer in some regions, particularly in the United States. The abrupt increase in temperature in the late 1970s was too abrupt to be associated with the smooth increase in carbon dioxide. Nevertheless, James Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, in testimony before Sen. Al Gore's Committee on Science, Technology and Space, said, in effect, that he was 99 percent certain that temperature had increased and that there was some greenhouse warming. He made no statement concerning the relation between the two.
Earth Day II, in April of 1989, was a big deal, but I don't recall anyone mentioning "global warming" at that time. According to what I've read on the internet, the idea really got rolling in 1992 when there was an "Earth Summit" in Rio de Janiero, and a U.N. resolution about curbing carbon emissions.
I, however, don't recall hearing the term regularly until Al Gore started to devote himself full-time to the issue some time around 2003.