Finally a good article from Fox news on global warming..

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,468084,00.html


Finally someone stands up against the news agencies who just try to scare people with the "global warming" BS.  And it's Fox news for a change!  Surely Armageddon is around the corner..

 
Please read the whole post.

I think global warming now changing name to climate change reporting in the media is the next possible money making for some and taking from others mess.  Scare the tax payers.

  Is it happening? How can one know? 

The numbers and reporting are so bad in the media IMO when you start to look around you find things that don't seem to get reported on TV.  I linked an NPR report some time ago here that the oceans are cooling and NPR twisted it IMO.  Then you have CO2 is a bad gas? How do trees and plants and algae grow?

http://www.surfacestations.org/odd_sites.htm

The sun might have more to due with earth than humans
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/sunspots/
whats up with the lack of sunspots?  Should we be more worried now about cooling?

Now before people get mad.  I do things in my day to day to save energy I don't believe in wasting it and I like saving money.  Also read what I posted carefully I don't think the people in the world that are getting the GW CC news from a movie or TV media or Hollywood star are getting an unbiased view.  And a funny thing if someone does not go with the view they can get "shouted down".

Should we cut down emissions? I think so, I think of it as less waste. S hould we build better houses? YES.  I would like to know if(no I have not found information or done any math yet)Houses waste more energy than cars.  I have been reading about house design for years and it SEEMS when people try to build a house that is not a "standard" like a stick built in the USA they run into permit issues.  Better cars Yes.

Now before people beat on the car companies remember they sell what people buy.  People wanted SUVS and Trucks and the car companies are in business to make money not cars.  It is their JOB to make money for the shareholders, building cars that people don't buy does not make sense.  If people buy small car this will help emissions.  People might say they want small cars but what do they buy?

Then the other energy makers, some things need to addressed to make it safer and easier to install

Look around you tube there is a video of a wind gen ripping apart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7KnL35Nxtc
more stuff
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/exploding-windmill.shtml
http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/windmill.asp
http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/10/24/windmill-mishap-weighs-on-suzlon/
Read where the blades were made

http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/nazareth/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1228840506302500.xml&coll=3
 
I live in an area where are consumptive ways produce very negative results in regards to air and water quality. If we don't try to
control our lack of consideration for the environment things will get a lot worse. If climate change is a vehicle  for that change so be it.  I have just been certified as a LEED AP http://www.cagbc.org/index.htm and hope to at least be part of a constructive solution to a lot of our own stupidity and lack of foresight. We cannot simply stumble down the same path as we have done for so long recent events should at least be convincing of that. The pointing of fingers and the wagging of tongues bundled with an attitude of why should I bother are not going to help a situation that requires us to take a good hard look at who and what we are and how we try to maintain
and sustain a quality of life that I would be proud to leave to my descendants. To me it's not about what you make its about what you
leave

Joe 
 
Doing "what we should be doing" is not part of the problem.  The problem I have is the pot stirring caused by media outlets hellbent on making headlines based on false reports and shoddy science.

Most all of the "global warming is manmade" sources have been proven wrong time and time again and a lot of them have actually been proven to have falsified reports for profit.  Does that ever make the news?  Hardly.  Calming people down doesn't sell newspapers or magazines.  It also doesn't take attention away from other global issues like *ahem* war, so our government sources of reality, like the USGS, are never heard from.

Humankind has always blamed each other for the problems around them.  Humankind also has a peculiar way of associating the world around ourselves like we are the center of it all.  While there is no denying that smog sucks, the truth is that we are a very small part of the whole world and to think that we are the beginning AND the end of it all is self-centered.

Yes the globe is warming.  Geological coring of both rock and ice show that we are on the temp upswing.  Co2 samples are normal for the temperature rise too.  Where's the issue?  In a couple decades the earth will cool slightly and then rise even further.  A couple hundred years will go by and we'll start to cool off again.  As far as human climate records go back, we've always been going up in average temperature.  Just looking at a couple decades doesn't show you anything at all.  It's like looking at one letter of a word and guessing what the whole sentence is. 

 
Humans overestimate their power. I've read many papers that refute the whole man-made global warming thing, and I've known researchers to be highly skeptical of it since it first made the press.

Car sputtering? Check fuel tank. Greenland ice melting? Check for volcanic activity. Mars icecaps melting too? Check solar activity.

We have far worse pollution problems to deal with.
 
There is also global warming on Mars according to NASA. 

Maybe the Mars Rover is spewing too much CO2 emissions. Oh wait, the Rover is solar powered. Maybe it's the Martians with their big UFOs :)

 
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