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Quantifying the amount of thermal energy the eminates from the earth's core could be huge. Why have you ruled this out? Scientist haven't.
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Because you're the one that brings it in. Do your own homework
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Are any explanations other than 'human existence' acceptable?
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"Acceptable" ? Sure, of course. There are none though that have been shown to have the necessary impact and/or correlation.
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Human Made Global Warming Crisis sound like we should all turn in our car keys and ride donkey to work. I support alternative sources of energy, nuclear power is still under utilized.
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If you base your observations on the to's and fro's in the massmedia, I can understand your reaction. Focus on the hard and dry science and you'll see the light yet.
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Wow. I wasn't expecting that. I agree with you. Nature is more powerful than humans.
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On a whole and in the long run, yes, but that doesn't mean we aren't fucking up in several aspects and aren't doing serious damage to our ecosystem. The climate is self-organizing and has proven to be capable of dealing with (natural) catastrophes over long stretches of time.
Yet, the present day anomalies data and especially the very short timespan of the current alterations suggests quite clearly this time it's us that are doing the harm. I can't stress the aspect of the short timespan enough. That, above anything else, is the indicator that human activity is responsible now. The climate changes of the long past all happened on geological scales (10's of thousands of years or more). Now it's within the lifespan of a human.
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It just that energy comes from other sources as well.There are risks in tampering with the atmosphere. It's unclear what the results would be from sending more aerosols out or in the past.
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I'm glad you acknowledge this.
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Prior to Katrina being blamed on President Bush, I never thought of weather as a polical tool. Now, 'Climate Justice' is the mainstream media's buzzwords used to spin every kind of weather event as a Republican plot to destroy the environment. I actually see warming as a good thing but not politically. I do recognize the political aspect of the weather now but, it's not my doing. I didn't come up with Crisis Weather chat rooms or Global Warming Chaos websites.
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The political discussion on both sides of the fence is indeed quite simply pathetic. The whole thing should be addressed on pure scientific grounds and not be at the mercy of idiots like Bush and Gore (to mention the main culprits in the USA; elsewhere it's pretty much the same.) The only country I'm aware of that in fact follows the rational, realistic way is the Netherlands. They take the thing seriously without spin and are planning for what is likely to happen without hurting the economy too much.
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You'r in the wrong state. Colorado has been having record snow falls making it impossibe to get around.
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The wrong continent actually: I meant the European Alps (France, Swiss, Austria). But just last night the first snow fell there (a pathetic 6 inches).
PS to any Gore-fans: His (partisan) political background makes him the worst person imaginable to mediatize this issue. For one thing, it's unacceptable that his movie is a commercial affair. If the man were genuinely preoccupied with the issue, he would have made the film publically available free of charge, such as any selfrespecting institution would do. Secondly, because of who is, the movie was primarily adopted by political parties all over the world instead of by the general public. And given the ultra short attention span of political parties, the movie will be a measure for nothing, in fact it will hurt the cause.