Re: OT: Global Warming? New Data Shows Ice Is Back

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:31:29 -0600, "Judson McClendon" <judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Global Warming? New Data Shows Ice Is Back

Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:55 AM

By: Phil Brennan

Are the world's ice caps melting because of climate change, or are the
reports just a lot of scare mongering by the advocates of the global
warming theory?

Obviously Phil Brennan beleves the latter. The giveaway is emotionally loaded phrases like
scare mongering.

Scare mongering appears to be the case, according to reports from the
U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that reveal
that almost all the allegedly "lost" ice has come back. A NOAA report
shows that ice levels which had shrunk from 5 million square miles in
January 2007 to just 1.5 million square miles in October, are almost
back to their original levels.

It's not news that the North Pole ice cap melts every summer.

Moreover, a Feb. 18 report in the London Daily Express showed that
there is nearly a third more ice in Antarctica than usual, challenging
the global warming crusaders and buttressing arguments of skeptics who
deny that the world is undergoing global warming.

The South Pole icepack has been increasing for decades. It's hard to define usual or
average during a trend. If they use, say a twenty year average as the norm, OF COURSE this
year is above the norm.

The issue is GLOBAL warming. Antarctica doesn't represent the globe.

The Daily express recalls the photograph of polar bears clinging on to
a melting iceberg which has been widely hailed as proof of the need to
fight climate change and has been used by former Vice President Al
Gore during his "Inconvenient Truth" lectures about mankind's alleged
impact on the global climate.

Newspaper reporters are not scientists, they pander to what the public wants to see. Just
like Sports Illustrated are not experts on swimsuits or female pulchritude. At best,
pictures are anecdotal evidence; at worst, they're non-verbal lying.

Gore fails to mention that the photograph was taken in the month of
August when melting is normal. Or that the polar bear population has
soared in recent years.

That's because some countries, such as Norway and Russia, banned or imposed limits on the
"harvest" (killing) of polar bears. The US is notable for its absence.

As winter roars in across the Northern Hemisphere, Mother Nature seems
to have joined the ranks of the skeptics.

Investing Mother Nature with a personality appeals to emotion, not reason.

As the Express notes, scientists are saying the northern Hemisphere
has endured its coldest winter in decades, adding that snow cover
across the area is at its greatest since 1966.

What does that prove? Here in the northern US we're getting cold air called Siberian
Express. It originates in Siberia, travels across the north pole, through Canada, and hits
us with sub-zero Farenheit. It is possible that a colder north pole in previous years
stopped the cold air from traveling across it. I don't know; I'm not a climate expert. It
just seeems to me that colder temperatures is a SIMPLISTIC interpretation to deny global
warming.

I'm neutral on whether global warming is real and whether it's caused by human activity.
My bull*** detecting radar perks up when I hear appeals to emotion such as pictures of
polar bears and cute baby seals.We've heard it too many times before. This time, they'll
have to produce real scientific evidence.
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