tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post8503134353645529092..comments2024-03-28T23:57:50.103-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: Why are we wasting this money?Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-61975622314262393532011-01-13T23:15:23.638-06:002011-01-13T23:15:23.638-06:00Hmmm, $2.5 Billion dollars at stake? It couldn'...Hmmm, $2.5 Billion dollars at stake? It couldn't be that supporting the Global Warming theory is providing paychecks to a lot of people, especially scientists?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-27137129637477813912011-01-13T19:02:47.458-06:002011-01-13T19:02:47.458-06:00I'd say the money is being spent because it is...I'd say the money is being spent because it isn't a fraud. I'm sure there's some featherbedding and some waste--same with any government program, anywhere, about anything--but the science is there, and it's solid. (To be clear, the overwhelming majority of scientists firmly believe that global warming is real; the debate is only over a] how much of it is anthropogenic, and b] what we should do about it.)<br /><br />A few links for you--which I hope you'll read, as I know you pride yourself on being well-informed, skeptical, but not a denier:<br /><br /><a href="http://darryl-cunningham.blogspot.com/2010/12/climate-change.html" rel="nofollow">Daryl Cunningham Investigates: Climate Change</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.lies.com/wp/2010/11/19/profiles-in-republican-courage-1-bob-inglis-swan-song/" rel="nofollow">Profiles in Republican Courage #1: Bob Inglis’ Swan Song</a> [Lame duck congressman Bob Inglis (R-SC) speaks on the record about climate change]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/18/AR2010111806072.html" rel="nofollow">Science the GOP can't wish away</a> [I call on my fellow Republicans to open their minds to rethinking what has largely become our party's line: denying that climate change and global warming are occurring and that they are largely due to human activities.]<br /><br /><a href="http://climatesight.org/2010/11/17/the-real-story-of-climategate/" rel="nofollow">The Real Story of Climategate</a><br /><br /><a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/11/carbon-dioxide-outburst-spurred-global-warming-40-million-years-ago/1" rel="nofollow">Carbon dioxide outburst spurred warming 40 million years ago</a> [A sharp rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide 40 million years ago increased South Pacific sea surface temperatures roughly 5 to 11 degrees, report climate scientists.]<br /><br /><a href="http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/" rel="nofollow">Climate change: How do we know?</a> [NASA: The Earth's climate has changed throughout history. Just in the last 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat, with the abrupt end of the last ice age about 7,000 years ago marking the beginning of the modern climate era — and of human civilization. Most of these changes are attributed to very small changes in the Earth’s orbit changing the amount of solar energy the Earth receives.<br /> <br />"Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal." <br />- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change <br /><br />The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is very likely human-induced and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented in the past 1,300 years.1<br /><br />Earth-orbiting satellites and other technological advances have enabled scientists to see the big picture, collecting many different types of information about our planet and its climate on a global scale. Studying these climate data collected over many years reveal the signals of a changing climate.<br /><br />Certain facts about Earth's climate are not in dispute:]Scott Khttp://skreidle.livejournal.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-49278468217830099682011-01-13T07:58:03.396-06:002011-01-13T07:58:03.396-06:00It's a jobs program at this point.It's a jobs program at this point.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com