'Future Earth:' Arctic meltdown, preview

Since Mark Siva loves polls, here's some data from the latest Rasmussen Poll of last week:

"Just one-out-of-three voters (34%) now believe global warming is caused by human activity, the lowest finding yet in Rasmussen Reports national surveying. However, a plurality (48%) of the Political Class believes humans are to blame.

Forty-eight percent (48%) of all likely voters attribute climate change to long-term planetary trends, while seven percent (7%) blame some other reason. Eleven percent (11%) aren’t sure.

These numbers reflect a reversal from a year ago when 47% blamed human activity while 34% said long-term planetary trends.

Most Democrats (51%) still say humans are to blame for global warming, the position taken by former Vice President Al Gore and other climate change activists. But 66% of Republicans and 47% of adults not affiliated with either party disagree."

We all know why The Swamp, usually so happy to present poll results, has censored mention of this poll.

Oh...France and MSNBC-?

The loons will have their panties in a bunch on Sunday night.

Paulo

Another recent news story The Swamp won't mention, since it contradicts MSNBCs propoganda film:

"Change is a cold certainty
Greg Roberts | April 18, 2009
Article from: The Australian

RUSSIAN sea captain Dimitri Zinchenko has been steering ships through the pack ice of Antarctica for three decades and is waiting to see evidence of the global warming about which he has heard so much.

Zinchenko's vessel, the Spirit of Enderby, was commissioned in January last year to retrace the steps of the great Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, marking the century of his Nimrod expedition of 1907-09.

Spirit of Enderby was blocked by a wall of pack ice at the entrance to the Ross Sea, about 400km short of Shackleton's base hut at Cape Royds. Zinchenko says it was the first time in 15 years that vessels were unable to penetrate the Ross Sea in January. The experience was consistent with his impression that pack ice is expanding, not contracting, as would be expected in a rapidly warming world. "I see just more and more ice, not less ice."

Rodney Russ, whose New Zealand company Heritage Expeditions has operated tourist expeditions to Antarctica for 20 years, agrees. He says ships regularly used to able to reach the US base of McMurdo in summer, but ice has prevented them from doing so for several years.

"Vessels are usually stopped 8km to 14km short of the base. A few years ago, that was often open water," Russ says.

"We have experienced quite severe ice conditions over the past decade. I have seen nothing in this region to suggest global warming is having an effect."

And now for the chorus of Bruce, Terry, John D. and the Flat-Earthers'...

Bruce: Interesting how you spend a page spewing about poll numbers about what regular joe's believe, with nary a mention of what actual scientific experts might be saying? You know, the people who might actually have some non-politicized information.

I say that as a person who is not convinced that we're causing global warming. But I'm smart enough to know that I'm no expert, as you should be.

Bruce was also convinced that the Bush economy was sound--until it wasn't. Those blinded by their ideology see only what they want to see. Let's look at what NASA scientist observed over half a century:

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/warming_antarctica.html

And is there anything that Allardice has to say that isn't prefaced with "what Swamp reporters don't want you to know"? Why is that, Bruce? Since when is concern for the planet a partisan issue, and what makes the republican owned Tribune a mouth organ for "the left", as you claim ad nauseam?

Stop listening to Rush Limpbag, Liardice.

"Despite the hysterics of a few pseudo-scientist, there is no reason to believe in global warming" --Rush Limbaugh in his book 'See, I Told You So'.

Only now, the flat-earthers concede that, well yes, there is global warming, but it can't be attributed to man's activities. More on how the chief flat-earther distorts the facts and misleads his minions-- those like professor bruce.

http://www.drury.edu/ess/Limbaugh.html

Bruce was also convinced that the Bush economy was sound--until it wasn't. Those blinded by their ideology see only what they want to see. Let's look at what NASA scientist observed over half a century:

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/warming_antarctica.html

And is there anything that Allardice has to say that isn't prefaced with "what Swamp reporters don't want you to know"? Why is that, Bruce? Since when is concern for the planet a partisan issue, and what makes the republican owned Tribune a mouth organ for "the left", as you claim ad nauseam?

Stop listening to Rush Limpbag, Liardice.

"Despite the hysterics of a few pseudo-scientist, there is no reason to believe in global warming" --Rush Limbaugh in his book 'See, I Told You So'.

Only now, the flat-earthers concede that, well yes, there is global warming, but it can't be attributed to man's activities. More on how the chief flat-earther distorts the facts and misleads his minions-- those like professor bruce.

http://www.drury.edu/ess/Limbaugh.html

Joe- the problem now for the global warmers is half the "real" scientists jumped off the Al Gore bandwagon and refute his claims. Gore avoids any debate about global warming because he knows it's all a farce. Gore made hundreds of millions selling snake oil called global warming, but his drones (like some of the above) still believe in him.

Paulo

30 years of global warming on a planet that is 300,000,000 million years old. Sound statistically significant to you?

I wonder what Al Gore's excuse for this?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1720024.ece

Wrong Terry--As any good Republican knows, the earth is only 8,000 years old, give or take a thousand.

@Bruce: The Rasmussen poll is not to be believed. They say that 34% overall chose human activity as the primary cause, including 51% of Democrats. They list the number of Republicans and Independents who "disagree", so if we subtract those numbers for 100, we find that 34% of Republicans and 53% of Independents also think human activity is the primary cause. It's hard to see how a poll that sampled political affiliation in a way that reflects national averages could find 34% of people overall choosing human activity when about half of Democrats and Independents did, and 34% of Republicans did.

Hmmm, the past two winters has seen a complete freezing of the Arctic Ocean. In fact, here it is the end of April and temps up there are still below zero. Now, I would love for someone to explain to me how ice melts when temps are below zero?
It's also fact that Earth's temps have FALLEN the past couple of years. Some scientists are now even beginning to talk of global COOLING, not warming.
The other interesting fact is that up until the past couple of years, there was much sunspot activity, which coincides with warmer temps on Earth. The past couple of years sunspot activity has dropped off, which has seen a corrsponding drop in the planet's temps. There is nothing man can do about sunspot activity and its effects on the planet's temps.

dts,

You believe what you want, I'll stick with 300,000,000 years

Anyone watch the video? Man, this is just frightful. "Could disappear by 2013" is what the video says. All those 6 billion humans belching out CO2. Those 320 million Americans, 5 % of the world's population, consuming 95 % of everything else, and creating even more CO2. A 5-year plan won't work. It would be 2014 by then.
Eight months and 1 weeks Too Late. What CAN we do?

No one gets out alive, so sayeth Jim Morrison, but there is one hope, Amerika. Well, actually two. GE has a $ecret weapon for curing Global Warming. I have seen the schematic. This $ecret weapon is competitor-free, not that that would be important or anything. Here's what we do. Impose a new Tax ~ a Carbon Tax, nationalize GE, commandeer their $ecret weapon, and Shazam! The world will be $aved. Global Crisis Delayed.