Thursday, May 10, 2007

Dan, This One is for You! Re: Global Warming

As some may be aware, there is an individual named Dan who has been posting his comments on "global warming" on various posts that have nothing to do with it. Rather than having him pollute his non-factual filth on just any various post he pleases, I will make this spot just for him. Before I do, I will present my side of this "global warming" non-issue. If Dan wants to contribute, he can add it as a comment to this post ONLY! If any comments about "global warming" are attempted to be made on an unrelated post, it will be deleted.

  1. Global warming is a farce, nothing more than a scare tactic by the left-wing liberals. What folks need to remember is that Mother Nature has a mind of her own, and we can not control weather patterns. History will show that most weather patterns occur in cycles, just like anything else in life. Just thirty years ago, the so-called experts who are now going hysterical over global warming was crying global cooling. MAKE UP YOUR MIND, WOULD YOU PLEASE? Oh, I forgot that Algore (aka Al Gore) is the pied piper.,
  2. The former Vice President is nothing but a HYPOCRITE! Most probably do not know this, but he owns a coal mine not far from his residence outside of Nashville; and, is a major pollutant. A truck driver from Tennessee told me this, then I heard this factoid mentioned on Rush Limbaugh's radio program. By the way- He barely passed Earth Science in college. He scored a D-, which means he barely passed. I just wanted to provide some food for tought for those who take Mr. Gore's words as the Gospel. In conclusion, I have never seen "An Inconvenient Truth", nor do I ever, as it is nothing more than a gross exaggeration.,
  3. Life could not exist with carbon, and carbon dioxide is essential for life to exist. We exhale carbon dioxide, which is consumed by the plants, which provides the oxygen we need to breathe. These factual tidbits may come in handy if you should become a contestant on "Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader"., and
  4. I am aware as to what Newt Gingrich has said about this subject matter, but even I do not agree with everything he says. There is a good chance that I have that post in my "Mr. Newt" folder in my e-mail. If I do have it, I will make a separate post of that article.

I have no problem in finding solutions in energy conservation, but it is not an "end all to be all" type of thing to me. I am aware of what Rupert Murdoch said yesterday. I think that he did this in a business sense, as energy use is a big part of corporate overhead, and not as an endorsement of "global warming". If I remeber, I did not hear him mention the term.

In conclusion, here are my two tips for energy conservation:

  1. Turn off any lights when not in use, and unplug any small appliance when able (e.g., a toaster), and
  2. If you are heading out in your vehicle, plan your trip to be as continuous but concise as possible. Mapquest does come in handy.

Bill

6 comments:

Dan Eisner said...

Bill, I hope this can be the beginning of a dialogue about what I believe to be one of the two gravest threats we face right now (the other being Islamism).

Before I continue, I want to correct an error I made in my last comment. I wrote that Rupert Murdoch owns Fox News, the New York Post, and the Wall Street Journal. He does not own the Journal; he is trying to buy it.

Let’s begin with your statements regarding Murdoch. You wrote that his decision to curtail NewsCorp’s energy use was merely done to cut costs. This is demonstrably false. While it is accurate that he never used the words “global warming,” he did refer to “climate change.” To argue that there is a difference would be shockingly disingenuous. Here are excerpts from a column he wrote for the New York Post.

Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.

We're not a manufacturer or an airline, but we do use energy. Printing and publishing newspapers, producing films, broadcasting TV signals, operating 24-hour newsrooms: It all adds carbon to the atmosphere.

We can do something that's unique, different from just about any other company. We can set an example - and we can reach our audiences. Their carbon footprint is 10,000 times bigger than ours. That's the carbon footprint we want to conquer.

If we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts on climate change by just 1 percent, it would be like turning the state of California off for almost two months.


Clearly, Rupert Murdoch is quite concerned about carbon dioxide’s impact on the environment. That cannot be debated. It seems Murdoch has been influenced by the scare tactics of left-wing liberals.

Regarding your comment about the concerns three decades ago about a new ice age, you are right: some scientists were concerned. However, that is where the comparisons end. Back then, there was some evidence that an ice age was possible. Today, there is an overwhelming amount of proof that global warming is happening. Back then, there was no consensus about an ice age. Today, an overwhelming number of scientists agree about the threat of global warming. For every Richard Lindzen (an MIT professor who believes global warming is absurd), there are countless scientists who are convinced that global warming is a reality.

Perhaps Al Gore is a hypocrite, but that’s irrelevant to the debate about whether global warming is real.

Yes, life could not exist without CO2 and humans do exhale carbon. And yes, plants consume CO2 and produce oxygen, which humans inhale. The problem is that we have tampered with that delicate balance. The planet’s plants are unable to consume the excess CO2 that our highly industrialized planet produces.

Bill, the bottom line is this: the debate about the existence of global warming is over. Now the debate is over how severe the problem is and how to tackle it.

Dan Eisner said...

I think you'll get a kick out of this, Bill. The candidates for president were asked to name the works of fiction they have been reading lately. Tom Tancredo said he's reading An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore.

William N. Phillips, Jr. said...

Dan, notice that Tancredo referred to it as a book of FICTION. For some liberals, they would consider it as, "This is the word of the Gospel."

Liberals response: "AMEN!"

Dan Eisner said...

Yes, I did notice. That's why I thought you'd find it funny.

When can I expect a rebuttal to my first comment?

William N. Phillips, Jr. said...

Dan, it will come. I have been busy on this end, but I will look at it and respond. I have to jot down some notes and thoughts on paper, so that it can remain in a "Hannity & Colmes"-like format. (lol)

Bill P.

Dan Eisner said...

May 17, 2007 — Antartica's Southern Ocean, a crucial "carbon sink" into which 15 percent of the world's excess carbon dioxide flows, is reaching saturation and soon may be unable to absorb more — a deeply troubling development, the journal Science reported Thursday.

"This is serious," said lead author Corinne Le Quere of the University of East Anglia and British Antarctic Survey.

"This is the first time that we've been able to say that climate change itself is responsible for the saturation of the Southern Ocean sink," Le Quere said, adding that the trend was likely to intensify over time.

The four-year study, which the Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry also took part in, shows that an increase in winds over the Southern Ocean caused by greenhouse gases and ozone depletion has led to a release of stored CO2 into the atmosphere — preventing further absorption of the greenhouse gas.

The Southern Ocean, the world's fourth largest, also is known as the Antarctic Ocean or South Polar Ocean, is completely in Earth's southern hemisphere.

"With the Southern Ocean reaching its saturation point, more CO2 will stay in our atmosphere," Le Quere said.

All told, Earth's carbon sinks absorb about half of all human carbon emissions. Researchers said that since 1981, the Southern Ocean sink has ceased to increase, while CO2 emissions have increased by 40 percent.

"Since the beginning of the industrial revolution the world's oceans have absorbed about a quarter of the 500 gigatons of carbon emitted into the atmosphere by humans," said Professor Chris Rapley, director of British Antarctic Survey.

"The possibility that in a warmer world the Southern Ocean — the strongest ocean sink — is weakening is a cause for concern," Rapley said.