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Well this is really not new news at all. It has been know for quite while. (for me since grammar school 52 years ago) It is news in that it has been ignored in the computations and probably only now being once again acknowledged? What else does the scientific community know about this, I spose I could Google it, but what does this mean for a padre living in SE Arizona working in the medical community? OK, let's think practically for starters. Remember to wear your sun-block and use a 45 blocking formula instead of only 25-35, for better blockage. Just to sort of get this thing "moving" a little bit. 
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Replying to: joel0622 (Nov 24, 2008 11:32 am)
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Replying to: joshuag (Nov 24, 2008 1:33 pm)
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Replying to: houdini1 (Nov 24, 2008 6:53 pm) |
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A Fiery Czech Is Poised to Be the Face of Europe Decades later, Mr. Klaus, the 67-year-old president of the Czech Republic — an iconoclast with a perfectly clipped mustache — continues to provoke strong reactions. He has blamed what he calls the misguided fight against global warming for contributing to the international financial crisis, branded Al Gore an “apostle of arrogance” for his role in that fight, and accused the European Union of acting like a Communist state. As a former finance minister and prime minister, he is credited with presiding over the peaceful 1993 split of Czechoslovakia into two states and helping to transform the Czech Republic into one of the former Soviet bloc’s most successful economies. But his ideas about governance are out of step with many of the European Union nations that his country will lead starting Jan. 1. While even many of the world’s most ardent free marketeers acknowledged the need for the recent coordinated bailout of European banks, Mr. Klaus lambasted it as irresponsible protectionism. He blamed too much — rather than too little — regulation for the crisis. A fervent critic of the environmental movement, he has called global warming a dangerous “myth,” arguing that the fight against climate change threatens economic growth. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/world/europe/25klaus.html?_r=1 I think I will like this guy.
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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 25, 2008 4:55 am)
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Replying to: alltorque (Nov 25, 2008 5:29 am)
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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 25, 2008 7:28 am) |
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An interesting article that actually mentions other GHG's such as methane and nitrous oxide. http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2008-11-25-greenhouse-gase- s-record-highs_N.htm Methane is about 30X more potent than CO2 as a GHG. I wonder whether the methane is mainly due to human-leaks, or more likely natural venting? |
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Do the GW models of the climate include the methane mentioned above. Maybe; but I doubt they include things like the following. http://blogs.usatoday.com/sciencefair/2008/11/cosmic-ray-hots.html What effect does this extra radiation have on heating the atmosphere or ionizing it and creating chemical reactions in the air? Oh how little we understand, and yet Mr. Gore and his paid-for-scientists would have you believe we must drastically change our lifestyle.
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