Comments on: Global Warming: The “Skeptics are increasing” (Post 8) http://tomneuville.com/archives/145 Serving District 25 Counties of Rice, Le Sueur, Sibley and Scott Thu, 22 May 2008 19:56:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: SDHO Redirect / Tom Neuville: ” I simply don’t accept that global warming is caused by humans.” http://tomneuville.com/archives/145#comment-102 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:02:06 +0000 http://tomneuville.com/archives/145#comment-102 [...] Global Warming: The “Skeptics are increasing” [...] […] Global Warming: The “Skeptics are increasing” […]

]]> by: Paul Fried http://tomneuville.com/archives/145#comment-85 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:33:07 +0000 http://tomneuville.com/archives/145#comment-85 Tom: CO2 is not a pollutant? That's like saying a dandilion is not a weed, just because when my grandfather was young, they used to have lawns full of them and make dandilion wine. Now there's a lawn-care industry whose economic health depends on defining it that way. To someone in an automobile with a running engine in a closed garage, CO2 would be poisonous and could be described as a pollutant. If human-made CO2 is, in fact, a cause of global warming, then we simply need to broaden our definitions. No one thought hair spray flurocarbons were a problem at one time either. Dewaun seems to be in the camp of those who firmly believe that warming comes first, and then CO2. I don't know how he arrives at his rating for the "top" Paleo-Climatologists. Tom, here are links to two recent articles from Reuters, one that was somewhat pessimistic about the US role in the next G8 summit whose focus will be global warming, and the other more hopeful: March 17: (less hopeful) U.S. odd man out in climate consensus http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL1672195320070319 March 16: (more hopeful, but by the same writer --?!--) US to join fight against climate change-G8 ministers http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L16721953.htm Tom: CO2 is not a pollutant? That’s like saying a dandilion is not a weed, just because when my grandfather was young, they used to have lawns full of them and make dandilion wine. Now there’s a lawn-care industry whose economic health depends on defining it that way.

To someone in an automobile with a running engine in a closed garage, CO2 would be poisonous and could be described as a pollutant. If human-made CO2 is, in fact, a cause of global warming, then we simply need to broaden our definitions. No one thought hair spray flurocarbons were a problem at one time either.

Dewaun seems to be in the camp of those who firmly believe that warming comes first, and then CO2. I don’t know how he arrives at his rating for the “top” Paleo-Climatologists.

Tom, here are links to two recent articles from Reuters, one that was somewhat pessimistic about the US role in the next G8 summit whose focus will be global warming, and the other more hopeful:

March 17: (less hopeful)
U.S. odd man out in climate consensus
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL1672195320070319

March 16: (more hopeful, but by the same writer –?!–)
US to join fight against climate change-G8 ministers
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L16721953.htm

]]> by: dewaun http://tomneuville.com/archives/145#comment-80 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:47:29 +0000 http://tomneuville.com/archives/145#comment-80 After viewing <i>Inconvenient Truth</i> and <i>The Great Global Warming Swindle</i> as well as The Competitive Enterprise Institute has distributed a <a href="http://www.cei.org/pdf/5820.pdf" rel="nofollow"><b>140 page response</b></a> to Al Gore’s film, I cannot logically believe that anything we could do short of what we've already done <i>(emission legislation)</i> could make any more of an appreciable difference since human-induced CO2 accounts for a paltry .04% of the total greenhouse gases and since increased CO2 does not cause global warming... global warming causes an increase in CO2 with up to 800 to 1000 year lag-time. Meaning temperatures must first rise for several hundred years to produce appreciably increased levels of CO2. Al Gore's assertions just don't make sense to the top Paleo-Climatologists and environmental scientist. Rev. Gore can preach all he wants to...I'm not sending my tithes to the First Church of Gorey EnviroMENTALism. After viewing Inconvenient Truth and The Great Global Warming Swindle as well as The Competitive Enterprise Institute has distributed a 140 page response to Al Gore’s film, I cannot logically believe that anything we could do short of what we’ve already done (emission legislation) could make any more of an appreciable difference since human-induced CO2 accounts for a paltry .04% of the total greenhouse gases and since increased CO2 does not cause global warming… global warming causes an increase in CO2 with up to 800 to 1000 year lag-time. Meaning temperatures must first rise for several hundred years to produce appreciably increased levels of CO2. Al Gore’s assertions just don’t make sense to the top Paleo-Climatologists and environmental scientist. Rev. Gore can preach all he wants to…I’m not sending my tithes to the First Church of Gorey EnviroMENTALism.

]]> by: Jerry Bilek http://tomneuville.com/archives/145#comment-79 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:33:38 +0000 http://tomneuville.com/archives/145#comment-79 Tom, You say: The cost of the “cure” would be worse than the disease. What is the cost of doing nothing or do you have an alternative proposal? Tom,
You say:
The cost of the “cure” would be worse than the disease.

What is the cost of doing nothing or do you have an alternative proposal?

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