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UN Climate Chief: Hurricane Sandy a ‘Wakeup Call’ on Climate Change
With President Obama’s re-election now a lock, international pressure is beginning to ratchet up on the President to abandon what small vestige of political self-preservation he’d managed and go full Leftist.
The latest instance comes from U.N. Climate Chief Christiana Figueres of Costa Rica, who recently characterized Hurricane Sandy as a “wakeup call” for the United States on climate change and lamented our apparent unwillingness to begin penalizing carbon emissions with zeal.
The Washington Examiner’s Beltway Confidential blog explains:
“Yes, I certainly do think that this is yet another wake-up call,” Figueres said of Hurricane Sandy to Yale Environment 360 in an interview published by The Guardian.”I did hear President Obama say quite categorically in his acceptance speech that he is not going to have a future that is threatened by increasing warming . . . I do think that this mirrors the growing awareness in the United States. So I do think that Sandy has contributed to this. Is it the tipping point? That remains to be seen.”
Figueres also spoke if international frustration with the United States for failing to sign onto UN global warming initiatives such as the Kyoto Protocol.
“[I]f the United States does not strengthen its participation in the global climate regime under the newly re-elected president I think there will be increased frustration with the United States,” she said.
Cap and Trade, President Obama’s previous preferred method of dealing with climate change, has been stalled in Congress pretty much since the start of his first term, and Obama likely lacks the political capital to pass it, even in the aftermath of his election. This instance of gloating by the U.N. is deeply unlikely to change that. In fact, Chief Figueres might have given the President’s critics more ammunition if he pursues the policy in the face of this kind of pressure. The idea of the President bowing to criticism from foreign entities could be a potent political toxin, even for a lame duck.
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Maxim Crux
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:49amHurricane Sandy is a wake up to Newtons Law that an object in motion…IONs, can be boosted by miniscule amounts of pulse energy to create plasma that influences magnetic fields in which create high pressure systems that steer the jet stream. It is called Tesla Technology that has been weaponized. Wake up idiots…the proof is in the propaganda…Combat Climate Change! Climate Changes…period!There is no justification to prevent or even PREVENT…CLIMATE CHANGE! Wake the Up because the use of a weapon to cause weather and seismic abnormalities is being used to justify global wealth distribution and the return to the stone age.
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rickc34
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 1:11amGlobal warming is a fairy tale made up by the left to rob america of its wealth. Cap and trade is the instrument to do just that. Blog “Bath House Barry”
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VoteRightDammit
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 1:25amThe UN has officially rendered itself irrelevant
and this blather about Tesla pulse generators controlling macro-meteorologic events is ….
well, you have to have a pretty nonexistent scientific education to actually buy into that.
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KevINtampa
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 2:13amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO5Adt4nhCk
This is a CBC expose on HAARP. I’m not saying it’s real, but at the same time there is certainly enough evidence to suggest it’s at least plausible.
And from the UN’s own report:
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/gacol3160.doc.htm
Quote:
“ALEDIA CENTENO RODRIGUEZ, Frente Patriotico Arecibeño, said her organization had spoken last year on the United States strategy to authorize a nuclear weapons production facility in Puerto Rico, in violation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. She explained that Arecibo was home to the Arecibo National Astronomy and Ionospheric Centre (NAIC), which was used as an “ionospheric heater” [an array of antennae which are used for heating the uppermost part of the atmosphere]. Arecibo was also mentioned as a test-site for the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Programme (HAARP), in a patent filed by an individual in the United States, to conducted experiments related to ionospheric manipulation.
And the EU Parliament in 1998:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+REPORT+A4-1999-0005+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN
On 5 February 1998 Parliament’s Subcommittee on Security and Disarmament held a hearing the subject of which included HAARP. NATO and the US had been invited to send representatives, but chose not to do so…
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KevINtampa
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 2:29am@VOTERIGHT
You should seriously read the above links before you continue to mock people concerned over weather modification, at least do your own homework first as it’s obvious you are the uneducated person in this matter. Of the sources above: One is the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company), the UN, as well as the EU parliament. These are hardly your typical sources of fringe conspiracy theories.
Another great place to research a bit from the evidence discussed at the 1977 Environmental Modification Convention (ENMOD).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_control
It’s not nearly as far fetched as it sounds, and both Russia and China openly practice domestic weather modification. Articles on China’s modifications can be readily found with a Google news search during the Beijing Olympics as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Weather_Modification_Office
Here’s something leaning a little more “fringe” (Radio Free Europe) but still mainstream from 2010 that’s worth a look:
http://www.rferl.org/content/Russian_Scholar_Warns_Of_Secret_US_Climate_Change_Weapon/2114381.html
With all of the information available, to say HAARP isn’t at least a weather weapon prototype system at this point is crazier than saying it is only used to “study atmospheric makeup”.
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PATTY HENRY
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 2:33amoH, well, good grief…you mighta known it was a woman saying this. I’m a woman but I’m not led around by nut cases like phony scientists or AL GORE-types.
I would never admit to being a liberal if I were any of these people…that’s like saying “I AM A DUNCE, I AM DUMBER THAN DIRT”… and “I CANNOT CONNECT ANY DOTS” or ” I CAN’T THINK THE NEXT STEP” ….. Climate change my Aunt Fannie.
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Lamarr01
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 2:56amMaxim – you are not supposed to know about this. Please don’t share this information with anyone. The “weaponization of weather” and “geo-engineering” are just conspiracy theories. Do not bother to read the following unless you have a strong background in science and engineering.
http://rezn8d.net/2012/11/02/geoengineering-frankenstorm-hurricane-sandy-afwws-pt1/
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Gorp
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 4:48amI wonder if her mother had any kids that lived. Just wondering…
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johnpaulkuchtajr
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 6:02amPronouncements from an organization that has been repeatedly cited for child rapes in undeveloped hell holes and that is incapable of managing any armed conflict anywhere in the world is irrelevant.
Get the US out of the UN and get the UN out of the US.
That slogan is just as relevant today as it was in 1965 when it appeared on billboards all over the country.
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RIGHT_WHERE_IT_HURTS
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 6:03amCocaine? Did somebody say cocaine? Please elucidate. I’m all ears.
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decendentof56
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 6:49amWhats the big deal? We’ve had hurricanes here in the NE before. Hazel in ’55, the ’62 NE’er that was as bad for the Jersey coast (that one wiped out whole sections of towns. We had a late March snow-storm that had my family farm out of electric for a week.
But nowdays, with political agends’s to manipulate events to their advantage, everything has to be caused by something manmade.
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decendentof56
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 6:50amDsiclaimer: This comes from a UN Science Chief………
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Scooby_Do
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 7:02amIt’s not surprising that statists would use the thoroughly discredited religion of climate change to redistribute wealth, it is surprising how many dupes still beleive them. Read fresh political commenatry at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/
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DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 7:09amThese people are evil. I say we publicly fund all abortions…they, and the rest of the liberals, will be extinct in 30 years.
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GrayPanther
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 9:04amGood job! We must remember Global Warming was created in the Communist one world United Nations. Their “report” was sanitized of any doubters among the thousands of mainly non climatologists. And the fact the UN exempts so called emerging countries like Communist China from the clean up process tells the tale. The whole effort is to raise the energy costs and reduce the power of America and other western nations. Close down the UN in the USA and cut our support costs to the UN.
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johnnylingo
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 9:05amThe earth changes are a result of the country choosing wicked behaviour as a way of life. God is calling us to repent or it will only get worse. The killing of 800,000 babies a year by the US is a misuse of the freedom we once had.Al Gores group is as always trying to make a buck at everyone elses expense.
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VoteRightDammit
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 9:48am@KevinTampa
I wasn’t mocking you but will now.
Read your links. By coincidence I WORKED ON a related satellite-based energy program in the ’70′s (have an Ms degree in Aero/Astro Engineering) in which we considered a gigawatt solar satellite in geosync orbit, beaming energy down via microwave to receiving stations in the desert. The program was scrapped for a variety of real-world reasons.
YOUR FETISH ABOUT MAN CREATING, STEERING, OR EVEN INFLUENCING HURRICANES IS CHILDISHLY NAIVE. Sorry – its a nice conspiracy theory, but the technology is decades and decades away, if it ever would become real. Did you even understand your own links?
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ashestoashes
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 10:37amThe UN..Trilateral Commission…Council on Foreign Relations…Bonesmen..Bilderbergs..Thule..Vril and Freemasons are all organizations started by the Rothschilds..the Communist New World Order… Clouds were being seeded as far back as the 50′s..Technology has come far..They now seed clouds with barium..aluminum and other chemicals..killing the crops and the land..one of the benefits for them is that they can purchase commodities at a low locked in price..destroy the other crops and make a killing..They use it in warfare..and I understand that they used the technology to drive Sandy inland..The UN has published a report..it says no one not taking a vow to Lucifer will be allowed to enter the NWO..THe report is called “Our Global Neighborhood”
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lani59
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 11:15amIt’s stories like these that make me go buy more food and ammo…
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MIBUGNU2
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 11:30amAll these BOZOS reading off the same gore/obama MEMO !!!
DUMP the UN…just what we need, more POS telling us what
to do and take our hard earned money. WTF ???????????
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ScreaminEagle
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 11:40amWhy are these A-Ho’s still in my country? Get Out!
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Maxim Crux
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 1:44pmLamarr01 Nice link. Anyone with a brain should easily question the motive of the UN and the so called CO2 hoax. That makes zero sense. The weather is being manipulated through radio pulse weapons and the UN knows it. There are so many people that are making their living on this geoengineering hoax that they do not realize that they are actually contributing to the cause. The term Climate Change is so broad that it is clearly a propaganda device to get people that have little or no interest in understanding how weather is naturally made to buy into the hoax that CO2 emissions is causing these strange phenomenon started as soon as their efforts began to create this great wealth distribution scheme. Climate Change…as far as the way AL GORE and the UN put it is a hoax but the weather and the earthquakes are not. The weather is purposely being manipulated and there are consequences unintended in the use of such technology. For the record, I do understand what is going on in great detail. Even though I am an engineer, people do not need that background to know the basics of how weather is naturally formed and to understand that CO2 emissions are not a contributing factor on the scale that they want people to believe. More people need to become more self educated and stop denying the facts because there is great danger in the abuse of such technology
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Advection
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 1:48pmUN backed scientists are OPENLY attempting several lines of geoengineering research in which they plan to “fix” our atmosphere from hypothetical damage. These people are extremely dangerous because their speculative research entails them to tinkering with our atmosphere. When asked about the dangers, they scoff, claiming they know exactly what they’re doing, in spite of the fact that nobody has any experience in what they’re attempting.
These facts are madness. Therefore, I don’t totally discount wild sounding conspiracies about geoengineering. These people are capable of anything, except (I predict) taking responsibility for their failures.
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Fubared
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 2:00pmHarp and shepards pie go well together. Like peas and carrots. Mmm. Harp is good cold or tepid too. Why all the hoopla and controversy over a good beer?
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The Gooch
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 3:20pmSo COBRA finally completed the Weather Dominator? And knowing is half the battle.
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turkey13
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 3:34pmIt looked to be a wakup call that all the top brass at FEMA needed to be fired. They showed up for the Photo Opps like Chuckie Schumer & Obama and then they all disappeared. They still don’t get it that the Lord was sending a message and then a smaller one and they missed it. Maybe the third storm will get their attention.
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Wolf
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 4:41pm***** the UN.
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ashestoashes
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 5:46pm@VOTEDAMMIT..So you worked on one of these programs in the 70′s and it didn’t work out..that doesn’t mean that it ever stopped…or that they would have informed you..You say it would be decades..well..it has been decades since the 70′s..Time flies quickly doesn’t it?
For anyone in doubt..here is a very helpful informative video..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEfJO0-cTis
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michaelmoron
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 6:11pmCommon Sense: Climate Change Scheme a ‘Wakeup Call’ on the United Nations.
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The United Nations is a Private Company. Are you really going to tolerate an official of a PRIVATE COMPANY telling you how to run your Country?
http://www.manta.com/c/mmb5y6t/united-nations
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This evil freak gets a tingle up his leg when he talks about the UN’s founders and how the UN will govern the Planet in a New World Order.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc7i0wCFf8g
Who are the UN’s founders? It is the owners of the IMF and World Bank.
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toto
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 7:42pmGlobal warming, -> Climate change = WEATHER has always been cyclic. The problem today is that so many people live in the path of likely storms. The sheeple will fall for anything, their gullibility boggles the mind. So funny that when the facts don’t support their thesis, they blame that on global warming too. No one is talking about the fact that the ice in Antarctica is the most ever recorded. It’s all about power, politics, and money, nothing more.
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Scooby_Do
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 6:56amHey UN, your brain just sent a wak up call to your common sense, or is it the other way around.? Read fresh political commentary at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/
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Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 10:36amThe commies will crawl out of the walls now that Dear Leader stole another election. She looks gay to me too. Typical.
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Balzy
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 10:40amdidn’t realize that was so old: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/glenn-beck-finally-reveals-the-reason-for-those-agenda-21-ads-on-blaze-tv-for-real/#comment-4502158
go to:
un.org
look up agenda 21, read the whole thing. after you take notes and can get a grasp of that reality, now look up the next mini ice age that’s due to hit home anytime now. Now think real hard for a minute about what a mini ice age would do to our world. It would wipe a buttload of people off the map, fersure so why don’t they want global warming? that’s our only possible defense in my eyes, unless they want all those people gone. i got off the climate change movement, when i found out that methane(cow flatulence being the biggest leading cause of GW) causes more pollution than CO2. Not only that but that one single volcano(not even a super one) would cause more pollution than we have throughout our existence. You see guys, not only is global warming such a non-issue that it’s laughable. But the very idea that WE are the problem is what’s the biggest thing to worry about with the agenda. They finally found a way to control us, the UN makes us a threat to everyone’s existence. You have to look it up and keep an open mind, everyone i have gotten to look it up have been shocked, dismayed, angry, some half-expected it. There is a reason climate scientist won’t release their “scientific” evidence, they’re waiting for the glacier to get 1 or 2mm smaller then it’s ever been. When di
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WarMunger_Al
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 10:51amIts a wake up call…..We never had hurricanes before, must be climate change, need to to tax carbon, yeah that’ll fix it. They should shoot any moron that says hurricane sandy is climate change related. These people won’t go away on their own, they need eliminating.
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Balzy
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 10:54amwhen did they start measuring the glacier?* If they haven’t been studying that glacier for a 100 or more years, then their science can’t fully explain anything. Our earth has maintained a healthy 1 degree loss or gain every hundred years, we would have to have been measuring the glacier during the hundred years prior to see how it fair’s for the next hundred years. All their research is based on speculation and not nearly enough variables to take into account. Sry but I don’t believe we KNOW how small the glacier got last hundred year temperature cycle, so why should we assume all these scientists are right that it’s BAD. It could have been HUGE, but who the hell is gonna measure a big block of ice? (lol i know they actually used many means possible to make maps back in the day, mapmakers actually made very accurate representations of our lands on maps. they used many different devices, some prolly used measuring sticks. But jees i just can’t imagine that many people wanting to do that for a living, would they stand up after a few reachable measurements? or would they crawl the whole way, kinda like that foreign guy that roled all over his country. Now the sundials and stuff like that seems funner, sure beats seemingly perpetually sitting and standing to me! but do we have accurate measurements of the glaciers from various different years in the 19th century? That would actually be a good argument) i simply wasn’t thinking it all the way through at first with th
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Balzy
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 11:01amUgh sry for the lengthiness(that’s my word, not websters)) I can never convey truly how i feel in a few words.(type-talk makes you have to explain everything about what you say) still trying to get used to it… Sooo I want everyone to know that i believe that human beings could do a lot of good to our planet, since it’s not our pollution that’s the problem. In my mind it would be cool if a good amount of people just set a little bit of their time away to help keep the earth’s features intact. For instance, We used to have some pristine beaches(;D toby) until they built a wall on the shoreline. umm now the beach is ugly, all that work god did to make you noobs an amasing place to hang out at and you pretty much shoved a wrench into the erosion process. srsly though, man has come up with some stupid ideas. but if you build a worthless wall that makes your beach turn into what looks like a giant lake, get rid of the stupid wall. don’t act like it was a good idea, years have passed and you have messed up something that was designed by the greatest mind there is. My lord said he will destroy those who destroy the earth, so i think it’s about time we start talking about what we can do to reverse the bad ideas degrading a cool lookin planet. global warming is a crapshute, but man has done some dumb things to literally destroy something awsome in nature. let’s take care of the earth, but don’t make it into something that it’s not.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 12:12pmHope this doesn’t post twice, not sure what just happened. The program just went off a few minutes ago on the History Channel. Didn’t expect to see it run again since ’07 since they took that huge leap of faith for their now Global Whining stance. Watch them for this to run again though, it is interesting since it does talk about how the earth and in particular the area of the United States that has frozen and warmed several times in many millions of years. “How The Earth Was Made” aired first 16 September 2007, so catch if you can.
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wordweaver
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:44amUSA out of the UN. UN out of the USA. Nothing good will come from this organization, and everything bad.
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1snake1
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:50amI love you anti-science, anti-progress anti-globalization nuts.
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VoteRightDammit
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 1:30amHold on there, Hoss.
How on earth are we going to trample on the 2nd Amendment if we pull out of the UN ???
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justangry
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 8:18amReally, isn’t there someone in Washington willing to tell the UN to F off? I never swore allegiance to the Frick’n UN. They can leave as well as the politicians that cater to them.
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Trail_Jumper
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 9:17amI’d like to get that on a ballot for the next election. Bye bye U.N………
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Fubared
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 3:54pmOn 24Nov12 @ 0815, angry said something I agree with. There should be balloons and confetti. Frickin momentous occasion. The Mayans must be right.
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22AUTOMATIC
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 5:54pmHere’s one of the best episodes on the subject of “Global Warming.” I’m not always on board with everything Ventura does but this investigation was very informative. I already knew a great deal of what is mentioned but if you know anyone who still believes in manmade “Global Warming” aka then “Climate Change” aka now “Sustainability” just forward this video to them. As I always say, FOLLOW THE MONEY. It’s all about riches and power. Look up details on dirt bag Maurice Strong and Agenda 21. Global Wealth redistribution.
http://youtu.be/dLjGmfGVQBM
Also, here’s the facts you won’t see on the lame stream media – Global Warming stopped 16 years ago
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released–chart-prove-it.html
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piper60
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 6:16amGlobal warming is a power-grab swindle. The Un is a mouthpiece for anti-American, anti-[rosperityutyrants, and a waste of a perfectly good garbage dump.
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WarMunger_Al
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 11:04am“Science” is what is going to destroy the planet. Science is the causes of nearly every problem modern man faces. People seem to forget the 700 nuclear weapons we have exploded in the upper atmosphere to see how it would affect the earth’s magnetic field. How about the 2000 warheads we have detonated under ground? Wonder what long term effects we could be seeing from those “Scientific” tests….Scientists are just rednecks with degrees, you can hear them saying “hey watch this…” as the world explodes.
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go2gym
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:44amPffffffffft!
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piper60
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 10:20amThe “growing awareness’ in the USA is that man-made global warming is an absurd swindle.
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Dan_o
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 10:59pmYup, the gig is up.
Someone should tell Mrs. Doubtfire he forgot his wig.
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SamZydeco
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:41amSo it was climate change that caused Sandy to make landfall during a full moon, exacerbating the destructive storm surge?
Anthropogenic global warming is a Chicken Little boondoggle to redistribute wealth amongst countries.
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TurboCat
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 3:37amAnybody who thinks this “President” will not take advantage of what these people want at the UN are KIDDING themselves! He and his minions will do this to us and BELIEVE
it because he WILL!!!! Whether we like it or not.
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scubascott
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:39am@ JUSTAFACTS your an idiot!!!! Study Agenda 21 and maybe…just maybe you might learn something
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scubascott
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:30amThis is nothing but agenda 21 and the un taking over america!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And once again the media, leftist, librals, dems.The obama phone lazy morons (all the same) want to destroy this country and our freedom and we’ll sit back and do nothing but watch it happen just like the election.Hope you have a promising relationship with christ the saviour, lots of food & water or both!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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wzanesdad
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 2:49amand guns. and LOTS of ammo…..and a good network of friends…and a plan.
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wzanesdad
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 2:58amAnd I absolutely agree woth your thoughts about the relationship with Christ. If anyone seriously takes a look at all that is happening in the world, they will see just how truly overwhelming it all is and that there is no way man can stop it. I keep thinking that if God was willing to spare sodom and gomorrah for 5 ritchous people…just think what he will do if we have millions of them…but I’m afraid that too many people are willing to sell thier soul for thier piece of the pie….how sad.
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ugottabekidding
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:26amFolks…
…they are trying to TAX the air.
Create “carbon exchanges” to make a lot of people rich(er). If you remember they were about to enact “cap and trade” when they got busted with all the damning emails that exposed their lies.
Well here we go again.
A whole hell of a lot of people should be going to jail for trying to commit fraud on the world.
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IndyGuy
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 1:23amOne things for sure…There’s gonna be a whole lotta people happy as hell when one morning they scan the obits and there’s the name AL GORE…
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Lamarr01
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 3:19amAl Gore’s mansion on the Pacific coast is visible on Google Earth. The front of his house is 23 feet above sea level. He must not be planning on the oceans rising any time soon.
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yougottabekidding
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 6:16amWish I would have thought of that handle!
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RAMJR
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:21amJust another wake up call for the United States to get out of the UN, and shut down the UN in America.
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:41amExactly, time to kiss the UN goodbye and shove it into the abyssal depths.
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scawarren
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:50amWell hell. the UN wouldn’t exist without the US but you are correct we need to get out of it !
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wzanesdad
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 2:44amI agree…but how do we do that? I mean, there are many senators and representatives that agree with us but nothing is ever even mentioned about it. I’m afraid that there is going to be a massive coming apart in this country if the people that are in power don’t start truly representing we the people.
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Lamarr01
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 3:33amSnowleopard:
There is much wisdom in your posts. In addition to getting out of the UN, we should also get out of NATO, WTO, WHO, NAFTA, International Monetary Fund, World Bank.
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jvrat
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:21amWe heard enough of these stinky tricksters claims that prey on suckers – global this ya cave dweller. As to try again and again the foolish notion that people can control or have direct impact on weather or any thing . – fools believe we can have any power over mother earth- this circus act should be jailed because of their own agenda that’s short of ignorace. A blatant act of causing fear to which some will be rewarded
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jvrat
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:50amglobal freaks deserve no credibility
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MDDAWG
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:18amWhen I was a teenager, the environmentalist wackos claimed that the aerosol cans (fluorocarbons) we were spraying caused a “hole in the ozone layer.” They predicted an impending ice age. Many so-called scientists agreed. Now that the natural changes in global climate has changed in the other direction, we are being pressured to do things like decrease carbon emissions which will have no effect on the climate. I’m a scientist and this is unfounded, political manipulation. It’s just plain depressing to see how many people are being fooled. Happy Thanksgiving weekend!
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VoteRightDammit
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 1:22am… and the ‘science’ behind the ozone-caused hole and the impending ice age was ………..
you guessed it …………
“SETTLED”.
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Advection
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 1:27amMy first experience with Global Warming was to witness the peer pressure. I was skeptical of the theory before I ever read about it simply because I witnessed the politics.
That was just as it was starting to take hold. Now anyone who’s skeptical is likened to a nazi death camp guard. I expect scientific skepticism will be outlawed before long.
Long live our Glorious Leader! All hail the State!
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JustaFacts
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:13am@ADVECTION
We should not take just 1 storm to help prove or disprove the theory of climate change. The strength of Hurricane Sandy along with the facts I just posted, helps prove what most Climatologists have been saying: Climate change is real.
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IndyGuy
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:23amBull Crap…
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IndyGuy
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:27am“U.N. Climate Chief Christiana Figueres of Costa Rica”…And just how much money does the poor country of Costa Rica expect to extract from the U.S. in this Hoax of Global Warming??? And don’t give me that renamed crap of CLIMATE CHANGE…
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Advection
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:58amI posted a reply below, thinking that you had not replied to my question.
In any case, Sandy was not an unusual weather event. Also climate is about long trends, and no reputable scientist would claim that a single event meant anything in climatology terms.
A Gore is not a climate scientist, nor is he any sort of scientist. Al Gore is a politician, and the UN IPCC is an organization run by bureaucrats and controlled by politicians. And sadly, may universities have been corrupted with huge amounts of funding to justify a political agenda.
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Advection
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 1:11amBy the way, the woman in this article, the UN’s “climate chief” is a climate expert, right? Wrong! Her masters degree is in Social Anthropology from the LSE.
And as someone else pointed out, she hails from a country that stands to get massive amounts of money dumped on them if this charade continues. IT’S ABOUT TRANSFERRING WEALTH. IT’S ABOUT “FAIRNESS”. This is Communism. The climate change thing is a tissue of lies.
And it’s the exact same BS that Obama talks about all the time.
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Advection
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 1:34pmYou just wrote two contradictory sentences. I not know what to make of that.
In any case, a single weather event is meaningless in a climatological sense. Don’t trust anyone who says otherwise.
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WarMunger_Al
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 11:13amSandy was not a strong storm. Just inconvenient timing. There always have been and always will be storm. If you believe in manmade Climate change you should just off yourself right now. The world is always changing and it will do so with or without mankind so go please do your duty and remove yourself from the planet.
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scadoodle
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:10amShe truly believes this – does anyone else find that amazing?
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as_mad_as_hell
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:33amNot really. An educated person from some piss-ant country has a chance to knock the USA down a peg or two. Why not take it?
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charles116
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 1:41amHon, in the Coney Island area are many high rise apartment building 10 blocks away from the beach,
Never in the history of a hurricane in NYC has SEA WATER flooded those building lobbies.
Have boats in docks been floated and left on TOP of other boats.
Have hundreds of home in the Rockaways and on Staten Island been condemned and scheduled for demolition.
So you keep spouting the party line, like creationism rather than deal with the real worls.
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betterpart
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 4:32amThe Figueres woman has to earn her keep somehow.
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Zipit
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 1:15pmCHARLES116! Do you honestly believe that in the four and one half billion years that scientists claim the earth’s age to be, that there has never been a storm like this? NYC has existed for a nano second in comparison. It is quite probable that storms of this magnitude and greater have occurred thousands of times if not more. In the grand scheme of things, we are specs of dust with absolutely no control or influence on these storms. And you can’t prove me wrong!!!!!
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 9:07amDORA-CHUCK, There is an old saying and as simple as it is, it is so true. Just consider this during your very short life on the face of this planet.
“Change is the only constant.”
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charles116
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 3:28pmIn the billions of past years, for only a century
has MAN BEEN BURNING FOSSIL FUELS.
It’s very little different that the large asteroid that hit earth
and covered the planet in ash and soot long enough ti kill of most
living things.
We are doing the same thing – just more slowly.
Your god can’t help you now.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 6:13pmDORA-CHUCK, So, for some other reason, all change must cease? Especially since the scientific community that has declared itself to be Al Gore select calls carbon dioxide the be all end all greenhouse gas. That has apparently been around for a while too. Oh yeah, dang I almost forgot, CH4. Those cow, all the way back to giant dinosaur farts. Hmmm, something else that has been around for a while too. Then since the beginning of man kind there have been all of those other wood and variety of other oil type fires for various reasons. I also suppose that none of our volcanoes ever burned off any fossil fuels either? I suppose that if you are truly that concerned, you might consider steps that will end you carbon footprint.
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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on November 23, 2012 at 11:58pmIf we listened to these morons the whales and forests would have been eviscerated in the quest for fuel decades ago.. People will use what resources they can get their hands on. Look at Africa- no trees. Look at America- More trees than when Columbus landed.
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Wayner
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:13amYear after year there are hurricanes ,and very powerful ones at that, which never make landfall. For two years in a row, 2 hurricanes took the same path up the Atlantic coast and hit New York City.. It might serve us well to consider that an Act of God caused this and not some stupid idea of climate change.
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Salamander
Posted on November 23, 2012 at 11:55pmCarbon credits? What? Credits for emitting ‘plant food’!
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TurboCat
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 3:46amThank You!!!!! Exactly!
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gyro
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 11:52ambest post here
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Salamander
Posted on November 23, 2012 at 11:54pmThe only ‘carbon emission’ needing curtailment is the very breath out of her misinformed mouth!
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chips1
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 10:54amHER???? I don’t think so!!!!!
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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on November 23, 2012 at 11:53pmStupid communists.. Throw these losers out of here. The U.N. is worthless. They can’t even monitor 3rd World elections. They are nothing but a front group for alinsky radicals..
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chips1
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 10:06amThe muslin storm is already here. Obama is changing America’s climate.
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The-Monk
Posted on November 23, 2012 at 11:53pmShe’s a nut case….. go figure.
No really…. go (away) Figueres.
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JustaFacts
Posted on November 23, 2012 at 11:49pmOh, and let’s not forget that Romney and the audience at the RNC ridiculed and mocked climate change, acutally breaking out in laughter. Way to go….teeny, weeny minds. Bibles, no science. Guns, guns, guns. What a party!!
I’m not speaking for all republicans, but the smart ones uphold science and look to the experts for facts and advice.
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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on November 23, 2012 at 11:54pmThe experts say climate change is a hoax. Why don’t you listen to the science?
Advection
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:01amDo you believe that Hurricane Sandy is more proof of man made climate change?
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JustaFacts
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:07am@GHANDI WAS A REPUBLICAN please site the facts to back up your statement.
Here are reputable Scientific Organizations who all agree Climate change is very real.
– The decade 2001-2010 was the hottest since records began in 1850, — the World Meteorological Organisation. 2011 was the hottest year.
– Most scientists believe the main culprit is greenhouse gas released by burning fossil fuel, trapping solar heat in the atmosphere.
– The IPCC, which is to bring out a new, updated report in 2013/14, has predicted further warming of between 1.1 deg C and 6.4 deg C by 2100 from 1980-1999 levels — depending on greenhouse gas emission levels.
– UN countries agreed in Copenhagen in 2009 to reduce greenhouse gas pollution to limit warming to 2 deg C from pre-industrial levels.
– The UN Environmental Programme said Wednesday that that goal has moved further out of reach and temperatures will rise by 3-5 deg C on current reduction pledges.
– The WMO says greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere reached record concentrations in 2011, and reported Tuesday a 30 percent increase in “radiative forcing” — the warming effect on climate, between 1990 and 2011.
– Since the start of the industrial age in about 1750, some 375 billion tonnes of carbon have been released into the atmosphere and will stay there for centuries, according to the WMO.
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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:08amAlgore is a bad joke. Your choice in heroes days much about you..
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mastice
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:11am@JustaFacts
Contrary to what some will say (like Gore – who interestingly enough, makes loads of money on your believing in this hoax)… the science behind “man-made” global warming is NOT settled. There is a lot of evidence that shows most of these so called “events” are merely natural, and not caused by man.
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wowjustwow
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:13amNew Jersey – 2 earthquakes today…one in Camden County and one in Berger County. Small but felt locally. Hurricane Sandy followed by nor’easter. Last summer – earthquake and hurricane Irene. I don’t know what’s causing it but the weather IS changing. I grew up in NJ and this is bizarre weather for the state, no question.
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JustaFacts
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:16am@GHANDI WAS A REPUBLICAN
Al Gore received a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in climate change activism. So he is respected among that community.
Hey please site your sources.
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mastice
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:29am@wowjustwow
You are right… the weather is changing. It’s always in constant change from decade to decade and century to century. The weather today is not the same as it was in 1980, and 1980 is not the same as it was in 1880 or 1780.
(the increase of available information today – like the Internet – has also helped fuel is notion that things are worse than they were in the past … used to be a severe storm would get a paragraph on the back page in the newspaper – today, with 24hr news, we are bombarded with the smallest change in weather)
The question really isn’t IF the weather is changing… it’s WHO is to blame. Many of us, like me, who are skeptics of “man-made” global warming don’t deny that things are changing. We are merely saying that much of the data suggests it’s natural.
You have to remember, setting the bible aside and scientifically speaking, the human species has only been around on this rock for a blink of a blink of an eye in the history of our planet. 500,000 years ago the world was a much different place.
Besides – increased temperatures has many positive side effects that people like ‘justafacts’ fail to realize. (lengthened growing seasons, increased areas of land to grow on, more vegetation overall, etc, etc, etc)
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revelation2012
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:37amhttp://rezn8d.net/2012/11/02/geoengineering-frankenstorm-hurricane-sandy-afwws-pt1/
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mastice
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:39am@JustaFacts
YOU didn’t even cite your sources… you threw up some generic quotes. Why don’t you try this first: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=science+that+contradicts+man+made+global+warming
Then here is some reading material for you to look over.
http://heartland.org/sites/all/modules/custom/heartland_migration/files/pdfs/21977.pdf
http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2012/05/31/sorry-global-warming-alarmists-the-earth-is-cooling/
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/stagnating-temperatures-climatologists-baffled-by-global-warming-time-out-a-662092.html
http://www.nas.org/articles/Estimated_40_Percent_of_Scientists_Doubt_Manmade_Global_Warming
http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/3/8/1603/pdf
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/record-antarctica-ice-contradicts-global-warming-hoax/question-3211531/
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2012/10/seven-recent-papers-that-disprove-man.html
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Advection
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:44am@JUSTAFACTS, you ignored my question about Hurricane Sandy, yet that’s what this article is about.
The truth is that Hurricane Sandy was not more proof that humans are destroying the planet’s atmosphere, but sadly many “experts” are using this event to further their goal, and line their pockets.
This is more proof that Climate Change (alias Anthropogenic Global Warming) is part of a political movement that has corrupted Science with hundreds of billions of Dollars. They want to crush freedom and liberty and establish a global dictatorship.
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JustaFacts
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:47am@MASTICE
Why do you assume many people and I don’t understand that a hotter climate is great for other vegetation and other species like cold blooded animals? I understand that. I also undertand that a hotter climate is bad for the human species. The human species and many other mammals today have evolved in a climate that is just right for us. A changing climate is bad because we are not used to it to such a hot climate :
1. A warmer world will likely have longer and more intense heat waves, like the one that wrapped much of the U.S. and Canada in 2006. Four hundred and fifty people died during that heat wave,
2. climate change is likely to bring more intense weather events, including floods, hurricanes and even snowstorms.
3. as temperatures and precipitation increase, mosquitoes may be able to spread further, putting more people at risk.
4. Rising temperatures also mean rising pollen levels, which is bad news for millions of Americans who suffer from allergies.
5. Rising temperatures usually mean more photochemical smog of the sort that crowns cities like Los Angeles, stressing out the lungs of asthma sufferers.
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JustaFacts
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:51am@ADVECTION I wrote the reply under the wrong comment, here it is again:
We should not take just 1 storm to help prove or disprove the theory of climate change. The strength of Hurricane Sandy along with the facts I just posted, helps prove what most Climatologists have been saying: Climate change is real.
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mastice
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 1:04am@JustaFacts
I think you missed something in (public) school. Did you forget that the whole reason our species, **** sapiens, has survived as long as we have is our ability to adapt and harness our environment?
Do you honestly think that the human species has survived in the current temperatures of the last 1000 years for our entire existence? No. Throughout our species history, we have survived in colder and hotter climates… to suggest otherwise is naive.
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mastice
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 1:19am@JustaFacts
As a side point to this debate – you can take your little 1-2-3-4-5 regurgitated talking points memo and just throw it away. You have added absolutely nothing of intellect to this conversation other than well known speaking points.
You might want to consider that you are talking with someone who has an elevated IQ and has done extensive reading on both sides of the climate debate… on second thought, don’t consider it. You ARE talking with someone who knows all those little talking points because I used to believe them too. I’ve read them, studied them, and spewed them out years ago to others.
Now, after reading the other side of the debate, I think it’s a bunch of BS.
(heading off to bed now – have a nice night!)
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Advection
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 1:20am@JUSTAFACTS, doesn’t it strike you as odd that almost every single study either assumes detrimental effects of a warmer planet or else attempts to quantify detrimental effect of a warmer planet? The fact is that the assumption of detrimental effects is what the UN wants, that’s what the UN pays for, so that’s what these studies always find.
And that’s not good Science.
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UNALIEN
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 8:28amRead the IPCC mandate, it ONLY looks at HUMAN induced climate change. it is NOT science, IT IS POLITICAL. THEY IGNORE ALL NATURAL VARIABLES AND FACTORS. It was set up as a propaganda tool to convince the world that natural climate change is caused by man and the UN can save mankind from itself if the UN could have more power globally. This is EcoMarxism. Climate change has happened forever and will happen, there is NO proof that man has any impact, a hypothetical used to prove a hypothetical is NOT proof. The “science” just isn’t there, it is political ideological brainwashing.
From the IPCC website
Mandate
“The IPCC was established to provide the decision-makers and others interested in climate change with an objective source of information about climate change. The IPCC does not conduct any research nor does it monitor climate related data or parameters. Its role is to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the latest scientific, technical and socio-economic literature produced worldwide relevant to the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change, its observed and projected impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation. IPCC reports should be neutral with respect to policy, although they need to deal objectively with policy relevant scientific, technical and socio economic factors. They should be of high scientific and technical standards, and aim to reflect a range of views, expertise and wide geographical coverage.”
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Zipit
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 1:48pmJust! Didn’t Al Gore, (MANBEARPIG) get kicked out of college twice, and get a D in science? So much for that Nobel Prize in climate change activism!!! What a joke!!!
And, 1-5 in your next post which is also a joke, making your assertions moot, you rely on the words,
1. Likely
2. Likely
3. May
4. “Bad news for millions of Americans”. Only Americans, or do you just not care about the rest of the world? Pure supposition!!!
5. Usually mean
So, what we have is, likely, likely, may, assumption, and usually mean……..
In other words, your post is about as scientific as Al Gore!!!!! Not at all!!!!!!!
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Fubared
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 2:41pmJust
When is 0 and the left going to lower the ocean level again? He promised that you would be a party to that and you swallowed. This whole enchilada is an admission of failure. He did get our credit downgraded, but the levels aren’t down yet. Why? Manbearpig is laughing at you, and you still want your green nose all brown. Why?its bad enough that peeps with common sense laugh at you, but your heros do to. That is just sad. I had my local trophy shop do a Nobel for my dog last week when he dropped an 8 inch turd with squirrel **** in it. Pretty level playing field now.
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Lamarr01
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 6:35pmThe World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN). The WMO and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) jointly created the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC publishes contrived research to promote the UN’s financial and political objectives.
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Advection
Posted on November 23, 2012 at 11:47pmOne hurricane is proof that the planet’s climate has changed due to our carbon emissions? Of course not, but the claim itself is proof that Political Science has corrupted Climate Science.
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udidntbuildthat
Posted on November 23, 2012 at 11:46pmHurricanes have been around much longer than when we started using fossil fuels heavily. During all the dormant hurricane seasons you never hear anything about climate change, and then when we finally get a decent storm the liberals who never let a good crisis go to waste, use it as an opportunity to push larger government and more taxes.
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pdw
Posted on November 23, 2012 at 11:38pmClimate change, that has been going on from the beginning of time and there is not much man can do about this. Stealing money and bankrupting the world will only make these greedy people richer and the world poorer.
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pushinginto
Posted on November 23, 2012 at 11:37pmWho died and made her the “U.N. Climate Chief”? What a nut bar.
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VoteRightDammit
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 1:29amthere was an Indian guy who was UN chief when the last IPCC report {sic} came out, but he was caught in some payola corruption and had to resign.
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TJexcite
Posted on November 23, 2012 at 11:17pmWake up call to show that that the whole climate change farce has jumped every shark in the ocean at once. Every Hurricane from here on out will be caused by climate change of some sort, even those well within the hurricane season and well within the 1 to 3 category. Even a category 1 that does not hit land was caused by climate change.
Agenda 21. Has been ordered and in the mail.
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stopprintn
Posted on November 23, 2012 at 11:00pmWill these people ever just go away?
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M13
Posted on November 23, 2012 at 11:05pmNot until they take your money, then your guns.
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randy
Posted on November 23, 2012 at 11:26pm@M13…… Let em try
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Max jones
Posted on November 23, 2012 at 11:29pmAtheist secular people can not develop any Moral understanding about what is going on…never will. They can’t put 2 and 2 together and get a right answer…..They are deluded and working with diminished capacity…..Their carnal concerns have killed their souls and left waste, what virtue they may have known. Without faith, they live in fear. It’s all they have, and it is there in every facet of their lives. Watch ‘em, and you can see it in their eyes and you can hear it in their rhetoric.
We all need transcendent experience to be sane and comfortable in these times…..(that is why they seem so crazy!!!!)
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South Philly Boy
Posted on November 23, 2012 at 10:59pmBull
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The Gooch
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 3:31pmCareful. According to this wizard and her ilk, “bull” is yet one more factor leading to man-caused climate change. At some point, I’m sure there will be a move to criminalize beef cattle… for our own good, of course.
Here that, Costa Ricans. One of you prime exports is a global warming/climate change no-no.
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