Heat goes on: Earth headed for warmest year on record

[jem]

I think he is just paid to be a leftist troll. no one who really believed what he believes, would sell greenhouse gases for a living. Plus he was bragging about how great his industry was because they elminated cfcs... until we explained what it was replaced by.

I suspect he made up his line of work... and trolls for small cash amounts as he collect govt checks. Maybe he got hurt on the job and is on disability.

 

[piezoe]

We have. Google "have we observed speciation".

Have we actually observed planet formation? Does it occur, even if a beginning-to-end observation would take far, far more time than the length of a single human lifespan?

Thank you. I stand corrected and humbled. I googled and found that fascinating article in Scientific American on the formation of a new species of non-sterile, polyploid goatsbeard.

The plant Kingdom gave me pause to begin with, because I knew about rare interspecies hybrids, but I also knew that they were sterile and had to be reproduced vegetatively. I did not know of examples meeting the definition of new species however, as in the goatsbeards, so thank you. Very, very interesting!!!

 

[Ricter]

Thank you. I stand corrected and humbled. I googled and found that fascinating article in Scientific American on the formation of a new species of non-sterile, polyploid goatsbeard.

The plant Kingdom gave me pause to begin with, because I knew about rare interspecies hybrids, but I also knew that they were sterile and had to be reproduced vegetatively. I did not know of examples meeting the definition of new species however, as in the goatsbeards, so thank you. Very, very interesting!!!

No worries, mate. Interesting universe we inhabit.

 

[Ricter]

I think he is just paid to be a leftist troll. no one who really believed what he believes, would sell greenhouse gases for a living..

Most of us are making a deal with the devil, to a greater or lesser extent. The point is, if we're all on the same page then we all share the burden of change equally. That makes the burden a lot lighter.

 

[futurecurrents]

when you are a nutter you can't respond to points made about science with any substance... you just post distorted perspective charts and then when you are banned from that you post wacky crap to distract from the fact you have zero science showing man made co2 is causing warming....
because we can't even be sure we are warming and we certainly don't know man co2 is doing it... because co2 levels trail warming and cooling.

http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/Co2ClimateChangeAndFossilFuel.jpg

 

[gwb-trading]

http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/Co2ClimateChangeAndFossilFuel.jpg

FC has been told not to post the same debunked diagrams over & over again. Now he just posts the urls over & over.

 

[stoic]

What makes sense is that only fully indoctrinated (post room 101) left wing Chicken Little's think science funded by billions of GOVERNMENT dollars hasn't become politics.

 

[futurecurrents]

What makes sense is that only fully indoctrinated (post room 101) left wing Chicken Little's think science funded by billions of GOVERNMENT dollars hasn't become politics.

So NOAA and NASA scientists are lying? Because otherwise, what, they will be fired? It makes no sense. NASA and NOAA are funded regardless. Career scientists within those agencies get paid no matter what they find. They became scientists to do science, not become rich.

Now it is true that the Bush admin tried to hush the climate scientists to appease his fossil fuel friends. But the science remained true regardless.

Two years after James E. Hansen, the leading climate scientist at NASA, and other agency employees described apattern of distortion and suppression of climate science by political appointees, the agency’s inspector general has concluded that such activities occurred and were “inconsistent” with the law that established the space program 50 years ago.

Our investigation found that during the fall of 2004 through early 2006, the NASA Headquarters Office of Public Affairs managed the topic of climate change in a manner that reduced, marginalized, or mischaracterized climate change science made available to the general public through those particular media over which the Office of Public Affairs had control (i.e., news releases and media access).

We also concluded that the climate change editorial decisions were localized within the NASA Headquarters Office of Public Affairs; we found no credible evidence suggesting that senior NASA or Administration officials directed the NASA Headquarters Office of Public Affairs to minimize information relating to climate change.

To the contrary, we found that once NASA leadership within the Office of the Administrator were made aware of the scope of the conflict between the Office of Public Affairs and scientists working on climate change, they aggressively implemented new policies with a view toward improved processes in editorial decision-making relating to scientific public affairs matters.


http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2...dings-on-climate-science/comment-page-1/?_r=0

 

[gwb-trading]

So NOAA and NASA scientists are lying? Because otherwise, what, they will be fired? It makes no sense. NASA and NOAA are funded regardless. Career scientists within those agencies get paid no matter what they find. They became scientists to do science, not become rich.

Now it is true that the Bush admin tried to hush the climate scientists to appease his fossil fuel friends. But the science remained true regardless.

Two years after James E. Hansen, the leading climate scientist at NASA, and other agency employees described apattern of distortion and suppression of climate science by political appointees, the agency’s inspector general has concluded that such activities occurred and were “inconsistent” with the law that established the space program 50 years ago.

Our investigation found that during the fall of 2004 through early 2006, the NASA Headquarters Office of Public Affairs managed the topic of climate change in a manner that reduced, marginalized, or mischaracterized climate change science made available to the general public through those particular media over which the Office of Public Affairs had control (i.e., news releases and media access).

We also concluded that the climate change editorial decisions were localized within the NASA Headquarters Office of Public Affairs; we found no credible evidence suggesting that senior NASA or Administration officials directed the NASA Headquarters Office of Public Affairs to minimize information relating to climate change.

To the contrary, we found that once NASA leadership within the Office of the Administrator were made aware of the scope of the conflict between the Office of Public Affairs and scientists working on climate change, they aggressively implemented new policies with a view toward improved processes in editorial decision-making relating to scientific public affairs matters.


http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2...dings-on-climate-science/comment-page-1/?_r=0

Aw... James E. Hansen - who was shoved out the door at NASA due to his ethics violations. This is the hero of the alarmists.

A Summary of James E. Hansen’s NASA Ethics File
http://junkscience.com/2011/11/21/horner-a-summary-of-james-e-hansens-nasa-ethics-file/

NASA records released to resolve litigation filed by the American Tradition Institute reveal that Dr. James E. Hansen, an astronomer, received approximately $1.6 million in outside, direct cash income in the past five years for work related to — and, according to his benefactors, often expressly for — his public service as a global warming activist within NASA.

This does not include six-figure income over that period in travel expenses to fly around the world to receive money from outside interests. As specifically detailed below, Hansen failed to report tens of thousands of dollars in global travel provided to him by outside parties — including to London, Paris, Rome, Oslo, Tokyo, the Austrian Alps, Bilbao, California, Australia and elsewhere, often business or first-class and also often paying for his wife as well — to receive honoraria to speak about the topic of his taxpayer-funded employment, or get cash awards for his activism and even for his past testimony and other work for NASA.

Ethics laws require that such payments or gifts be reported on an SF278 public financial disclosure form. As detailed, below, Hansen nonetheless regularly refused to report this income.

(plenty of more details of Hansen's criminal activities at the above url. Real scientists become "scientists to do science, not become rich". James Hansen focused on using his position to become rich.)

 

[jem]

granted its difficult to go through life and not be a hypocrite at times....
so here is a few tips ... I suggest to all...

if you sell greenhouse gases... don't be a co2 troll.

if you owe billions in taxes... don't get in the media and say those who work for a living should pay more taxes.

don't preach tolerance and then don't tolerate those who don't believe in your causes...
and then to be fair... which I don't see much in the educated circles but...

if your group sells the debt for the govt... don't have your IMF stated that govt should sell off assets to pay back the debt you facilitated by printing money out of thin air...

and for balance...

and a tip for believers...

if you are a believe in a Creator... don't act like the other guy is a moron for believing in a different manner. (however you can still can condemn the preaching of violence).

Most of us are making a deal with the devil, to a greater or lesser extent. The point is, if we're all on the same page then we all share the burden of change equally. That makes the burden a lot lighter.