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      CommentAuthorGadai
    • CommentTimeOct 29th 2007
     
    Is Global warming true? It's doubtful that a really scientific conclusion can be drawn with such a small amount of Data. Just like if there is a cold snap or a heat wave for a few days, we don't just assume that the whole month or year will be the same. In ten or twenty years we will know if the trend is more permanant.
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    The polar ice caps a rapidly melting away,this dosen't happen in " 100 year cycles ", they are finding polar bears swimmimg 60 miles from ice or land,this has never been seen before.

    It just makes sense that as Kali-Yuga progresses,life on earth will become more and more miserable for it's inhabitants.
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      CommentAuthormishra
    • CommentTimeOct 29th 2007 edited
     
    polar bears in "danger", ha ha ha . We are so gullible. We trust those leaders, again.
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      CommentAuthorGadai
    • CommentTimeNov 9th 2007
     
    Just heard on a shortwave radio program that there is a secret treaty between the Russians and US to intentionally melt the polar ice caps. Called the HAARP project- they are heating up the Ionosphere with microwave radiation.
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      CommentAuthorabrennan
    • CommentTimeNov 10th 2007
     
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      CommentAuthormishra
    • CommentTimeNov 10th 2007 edited
     
    1. mankind cannot influence nature as it is Krishna's unsurmountable power
    2. scientists cannot predict even tomorrow's weather and they advance decades and even 100 years time theories.

    Read the "scientific" articles with that in mind and you will see how cheating is going on in the name of science.
    They pose as if they knew, but in reality is cheating.

    "Kick them on the face"... (copyright by Srila Prabhupada). :)
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      CommentAuthorGadai
    • CommentTimeDec 16th 2007
     
    HMMM DER, Andy

    Small group of US experts insist global warming not man-made
    by Jean-Louis Santini Sun Dec 16, 3:58 PM ET
    WASHINGTON (AFP) - A small group of US experts stubbornly insist that, contrary to what the vast majority of their colleagues believe, humans may not be responsible for the warming of the planet Earth.
    These experts believe that global warming is a natural phenomenon, and they point to reams of data they say supports their assertions.
    These conclusions are in sharp contradiction to those of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which reached its conclusions using largely similar data.
    The UN body of about 3,000 experts, including several renown US scientists, jointly won the award with former US vice president Al Gore for their work to raise awareness about the disastrous consequences of global warming.
    In mid-November the IPCC adopted a landmark report stating that the evidence of a human role in the warming of the planet was now "unequivocal."
    Retreating glaciers and loss of snow in Alpine regions, thinning Arctic summer sea ice and thawing permafrost shows that climate change is already on the march, the report said.
    Carbon pollution, emitted especially by the burning of oil, gas and coal, traps heat from the Sun, thus warming the Earth's surface and inflicting changes to weather systems.
    A group of US scientists however disagree, and have written an article on their views that is published in The International Journal of Climatology, a publication of Britain's Royal Meteorological Society.
    "The observed pattern of warming, comparing surface and atmospheric temperature trends, doesn't show the characteristic fingerprint associated with greenhouse warming," wrote lead author David Douglas, a climate expert from the University of Rochester, in New York state.
    "The inescapable conclusion is that human contribution is not significant and that observed increases in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases make only a negligible contribution to climate warming," Douglas wrote.
    According to co-author John Christi from the University of Alabama, satellite data "and independent balloon data agree that the atmospheric warming trends do not exceed those of the surface," while greenhouse models "demand that atmospheric trend values be two to three times greater."
    Data from satellite observations "suggest that greenhouse models ignore negative feedback produced by clouds and by water vapor, that diminish the warming effects" of human carbon dioxide emissions.
    The journal authors "have good reason, therefore, to believe that current climate models greatly overestimate the effects of greenhouse gases."
    For Fred Singer, a climatologist at the University of Virginia and another co-author, the current warming "trend is simply part of a natural cycle of climate warming and cooling that has been seen in ice cores, deep sea sediments and stalagmites . . . and published in hundreds of papers in peer reviewed journals."
    How these cyclical climate take place is still unknown, but they "are most likely caused by variations in the solar wind and associated magnetic fields that affect the flux of cosmic rays incident on cloudiness, and thereby control the amount of sunlight reaching the earth's surface and thus the climate."
    Singer said at a recent National Press Club meeting in Washington that there is still no definite proof that humans can produce climate change.
    The available data is ambiguous, Singer said: global temperatures, for example, rose between 1900 and 1940, well before humans began to burn the enormous quantities of hydrocarbons they do today. Then they dropped between 1940 and 1975, when the use of oil and coal increased, he said.
    Singer believes that other factors -- like variations of solar winds and terrestrial magnetic field that impact cloud formations and the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface, and thus determining the temperature -- are much more influential than human-generated greenhouse gas emissions.
    Thankful People: mishra
    • CommentAuthormballav
    • CommentTimeDec 24th 2007
     
    While the melting of ice/icebergs on the poles due to global warming may or may not be a fact, the fact remains that everyone around the world is feeling adverse changes in the weather. Regarding many advocating that global warming is due to natural causes, only time will tell (and very soon) if the global warming experienced now and near future is at the same level as during 1900-1940 -- as their assertion of it being caused by natural sources is mostly based on the data from 1900-1940. It may be too late though, if we find out otherwise after say 10 years, to reverse what is going on in the world.

    One obvious thing is certainly that the artificial life that most of us lead is not good at all. Prabhupada indicated that many times. If not global warming, it is a cause of so many diseases, so much stress, etc. (In US, one out of 2 suffer from Cancer in their lifetime -- isn't that alone a warning sign big enough to consider natural lifestyle over the current one). So, modernization (or civilization as we know it in the western world) has to be kept in check and in fact countered with natural living as much as possible.
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      CommentAuthormishra
    • CommentTimeDec 24th 2007
     
    weather changes are being felt forever in cycles.
    they do not have to conform now to 1900-40 period.
    we cannot 'reverse' climate, that is part of the wrong assertion.
    health and unnatural living are entirely a different issue, not caused by weather change.
    please read some previous posts about the governments fear techniques to subdue people.
    Now they constantly pound on us as being responsible for climate, and its (questionable) effects.
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