Sounds of Science
From the desk of George Adair on Wed, 2005-12-28 18:15
While this story is not news:
The UK is almost alone in Europe in honouring Kyoto pledges to cut greenhouse gases, a think-tank claims. Ten of 15 European Union signatories will miss the targets without urgent action, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) found.
Nor is this bit from chicken little:
IPPR associate director Tony Grayling commented: “We are nearing the point of no return on climate change.”
The question still remains, if science is still the observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena, when Mr. Grayling is this point of no return? You do not have to give a date or a month, how about a year? The first or second half of a decade? Anything?
While you are at it, can you inform the world what percentage of GHG and the sort pumped into the atmosphere each year are man-made?
Please hurry with your answers, we are nearing the point of no return!!
Barking up the wrong tree
Submitted by pumpkin on Thu, 2005-12-29 13:26.
Perhaps the people who think this junk science theory of green house gas is viable need to consider this: There is a line of mountains under the Artic Ocean with active volcanos, and they are quite possibly the reason the oceans are warming.
Researchers from the U.S. and Germany, including the Max Planck Institue recently discovered that along the Gakkel ridge is a string of active volcanos and they are actively warming the polar ice cap. This ridge extends approximately 1800 kilometers beneath the Arctic Ocean from north of Greenland to Siberia.
Hydrothermal springs were also found to be active -- something the scientists didn't expect.
I'll just keep driving my Buick, heating my home, cooking on my gas stove and enjoying it all.
Oh, and in case you're wondering where will all the water go. Don't worry, we're due for a new ice age any moment now. Bought your fur coat yet?