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The list is cool.

And you know what's funnier than letters like this? Some new book or magazine article on "climate change" is sure to use it as a citation; something like:

Climate experts have linked global warming to some airline disasters.[1]

[1] USA Today Letters to the Editor, Jet Crash Details, June 10 2009.

Maybe they should server Kool Aid on all AIR-BUST planes just in case Global Warming get them.

Forget about the defective airspeed indicator thingies - they dont need to replace them sine it was Global Warming!

Of course one would think if GW were knocking planes out of the sky, they would be dropping like flies. But logic never was the strong suit of the GW KooK Aid crowd.

I am really diggin' the list. What a substantial monument to moonbattery.

And Liberals see nothing wrong with this.

My God.

They get huge thunderstorms in that area - some over 60,000 feet high, and they always have.

Attempting to fly through a thunderstorm is a bad idea - and it always has been. They used to try it back in the Ernest K. Gann days, but for the last 70 years or so we have known better.

"Global Warming / Climate Change?" - I think not.

More like bad information and/or poor judgement on the part of the flight crew, coupled with severe turbulence and a possible lighning strike. The full truth may never be known.

The airplane may have contributed as well - there are questions about electrical / control system / computer anomalies with various Airbus models. There are also questions about structural integrity and the ability to withstand abrupt control inputs, even when flying at the specified Turbulent Air Penetration Speed / Maneuvering Speed.

What I find most annoying with the media coverage of the Air France disaster is that they go charging off in a different direction every day - thunderstorms, lightning, control system anomalies, terrorism, issues with the pitot tubes and airspeed indication, etc. - everybody wants a nice tidy answer that fits on a headline, and the media has very little patience with anything resembling a technical issue, or with multiple contributing causes / issues.

As I said, we will never know the full story with absolute certainty - which suits the Moonbat Media just fine.....that means it must have been a warning from the Climate Change Gods.

Yeah, there never used to be hurricanes until people started driving SUVs.

I just sorta figured that they heard thunder and instinctively threw their hands in the air , and then entered into an unrecoverable dive .

The mental disorder called Liberalism/Moonbattery is DEFINITELY caused by Gorebull Warming!

And yes, that is a great list!

Face it, global warming... sorry, I forgot, it's "climate change" now, is basically religious in nature. It's little different than a shaman attributing a terrible storm to failure to appease the storm god. ANYTHING can be blamed on it.

It's superstition for people who believe themselves beyond superstition.

From the list:

turtle feminization

It just doesn't any more moonbatty than that.

Thats nothing back in decmber of 2004 some greenpeace jerks tried to blame the dec 26th tsunami on GLOBAL WARMING exposing just how stupid these greenpeace idiots are

"Spurwing Plover at June 12, 2009 2:23 PM"

Others blaimed it on nuclear tests by the US, which haven't been done for YEARS!

The warmlist is great. And all of this attributable to an hypothesis that can't be verified one way or the other.

Talking to an earth scientist friend of mine who believe(d) in anthropogenic GW:
He could not put together a time scenario from the start of excess carbon to rising temperatures once it was pointed out that the carbon compartments (atmosphere/top layer of ocean/soil/vegetation/fossil fuels) must fail completely in the short term to interact in order to produce even a minor global warming effect.

No one with any basic scientific knowledge and integrity can come up with such a scenario.

It has been determined that Chaz Bono's sex change was caused by Global warming.

All liberal Moonbats change their positions - Global Warming is now good........Al Gore is now a heretic for opposing changes in nature that cause changes in sexual orientation

Those of us who in our childhood were herded into a panic over Global Cooling will never, ever, ever sign on to this hoax.

The more of these manufactured crises you live through, the more you recognize them for what they are.

I can't really blame the college kids for falling for "global warming" aka "climate change". The first hysterical sky-is-falling-so-let's-all-feel-guilty-and-transfer-some-wealth-around-to-feel-better craze you encounter seems real enough. It's like living through your first 30 or 40 % stock market correction. Adults, though, should know better.

You just hate this planet. It figures since all of you right wing nazis hate everything else.

That's not true, Brandie. We LOVE hating you.

(And "right wing nazi" is an oxymoron, dumbass.)

Global warming caused Brandie.

The global warming stuff is nuts! But there is a South Atlantic Magentic Anomaly that is really kind of an odd thing. The earth's magnetic field is dropping about 10X as fast there as any place else. Some of the people studying such things are worried about it. They aren't making crazy claims and blaming everything from homosexual penguins to human aberrations in sleep patterns and alpha waves on it, but a lot of them know it could presage a magnetic reversal on earth. That is basically lights out for civilization if that happens.

The Danes are out there, about as far from Obama as anybody could wish to be and stay on the planet, studying this thing.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081125090348.htm

Brandon,

Heat always rises, and the transfer of heat from different surfaces requires a temperature difference.

Since the atmosphere is colder than the earth's near surface temperature, the transfer of the heat must always be from the warmer to the colder, not the reverse.

If this is ignored, it is a violation of the 2nd law of Thermodynamics.

Now I do not deny that we have a very small role in warming. However, the many theories surrounding global warming, specifically CO2, are wrong.

Why? Have you ever heard of black body radiation? A black body absorbs all electromagnetic radiation (light) that falls on it. This absorption of energy causes the body to become "excited."

Think about a microwave oven. The microwave radiation causes the food molecules to become excited, flipping and rotating against each other, causing friction. This friction causes heat.

This is what essentially happens when the earth absorbs the suns radiation.

On sunny days, the air directly above a black surface is hotter than other, non-black body surfaces.

Why is the temperature above these black surfaces hotter? Is it because there is a [thicker layer] of CO2 floating by, warming the air?

No. An increase of 0.01% CO2 is insignificant when it comes to "significantly" warming the remaining 99.9% of our atmosphere.

It's important to remember that oxygen and nitrogen molecules also absorb (and radiate) heat. They do not require CO2 molecules to warm them.

On a lighter note:

UAH data is out for the month of May. Sound the alarm! Global warming is on fire. It was just as HOT in May of 2009 as it was in May of 1980.

http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/uah_may09.png

Temperatures since 1998 are falling. There is currently no global warming.

Rich - Dude! You're wasting a lot of pixels (not to mention the wear & tear on your keyboard) responding to someone with the brainpower of a half-empty box of rocks.

Having said that, great post!

Some used to belive that nucular test were affecting the weather BUT THEY WERE WRONG

That magnetic anomoly may be something interesting but remember, the poles have swapped totally, north for south, multiple times through the life of the planet. Perhaps they're about to again. Just wait until someone tries to blame rich white males for it. You know they will.

Never Underestimate

Thanks Jimbo, just trying to help. These skulls of mush have been indoctrinated to fear the worst.

Snowsnake and Evilwrench,

The subject of the poles reversing their polarity is fascinating. Why do we not hear much about of this phenomenon, let alone the correlation with or what effects it would have on our climate?

I wish I had more time to discuss this. Perhaps tomorrow?

Rich,

Indeed, the reversal has happened before. There is some conjecture that this results in the loss of our protection from cosmic rays, particles, etc and that there is a huge increase in mutation of anything with DNA. This would kind of fit some patterns we have seen in that evolution would not just proceed gradually but in a series of some kind of quantum leaps along with a huge die off at each event. Obviously, it will raise all kinds of problems with weather--but since we can't predict what temperature it is going to be next thursday, it is really silly to project what the climate results would be from a reversal (talking about real scientists here--not the clowns who work the global warming scam. If Al Gore would have the decency to strip to near naked, paint himself in earth paints using lots of white and red, glue feathers to various parts of his body, and carry a bone rattle filled with dry pieces of bones that he shook when making pronouncements, we could find him easier to believe.

It is a pretty sure thing that if you want to plug something in--forget it. If very few electrical things work, I suspect civilization might get in a lot of trouble very quickly.

The more of these manufactured crises you live through, the more you recognize them for what they are.

I can't really blame the college kids for falling for "global warming" aka "climate change". The first hysterical sky-is-falling-so-let's-all-feel-guilty-and-transfer-some-wealth-around-to-feel-better craze you encounter seems real enough. It's like living through your first 30 or 40 % stock market correction. Adults, though, should know better.

Well said, mega. I call it the “feminization of society,” where we’re all living in the Lifetime Channel’s world of being stalked by implacable and impending doom, bleating piteously for someone to save us. I’m old enough to remember too many manufactured crises to take any new ones seriously.

Let’s run ‘em down. First, there was nuclear fallout changing the atmosphere, the population bomb and worldwide famine (thanks, Ehrlich!), DDT, global cooling, ozone layer (thinner now than ever, but you don’t hear a peep about it – too dated), acid rain, heterosexual AIDS (the shirtlifters trying to get out from under the “gay disease” label), Y2K, killer bees, and more recently, the bee die-off (never gained much traction, though – someone squashed that one too early by showing it was a virus).

At some point you’d think grownups would realize that a) some people have a neurotic need to feel threatened, b) other people have a neurotic need to mount crusades to save the planet, thereby validating their own existence, c) the media have a perfectly rational need to sell their stories, and d) some people – leftists - cynically promulgate this crap to advance their own agenda. (“We have to have government control over the economy – to save the planet from _______! It’s for the children!”).

The irritating thing is that when the crisis fails to appear, the alarmists then take credit for averting it.

Having said all this, global warming did cause shark summer.

Kidding!

Bad storms in around the Memphis area at 4:30pm on 6-12-09. Straight line winds knocked out power to 130,000 home and that just in Memphis. They are calling it Hurricane Elvis II. Worst than Hurricane Elvis I which hit us on 7-22-03 at 7:55am. Could this be caused by Global warming? Hell no! This kind of weather happens all the time around here and it's been like this down here since I was born.

Global warming is a Hoax I say.

RE: Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 13, 2009 10:02 AM

Jay observes that, "The irritating thing is that when the crisis fails to appear, the alarmists then take credit for averting it."

Yep! That's why Global Warming / Climate Change is the perfect scam......and that's why so much of their efforts are centered not on the alleged "crisis', but on trying to dominate and control the discussion about it.

There can be no doubt that we are in fact facing a "Global Climate Crisis" - the intellectual climate, that is!

The real irony is those "megastorms" transport huge amounts of heat from the surface to the stratosphere where it is radiated out to space, cooling the planet.

Your right about that dave GLOBAL WARMING IS A BIG TIME LIE AND A HOAX

Snowsnake,

The earth has two poles. This ostensibly makes our planet a battery. Lightning gives us visual evidence... electricity. Lightning is derived from storms. Storms are derived from many variables, but in particular, the earth's iron core spinning and generating electricity.

How anyone (in their right mind) can conclude that small shifts in the poles does not effect our planet is beyond me? These polarity shifts can create shifts in weather patterns, storm track trends, intensity, etc.

From what I gather, the earth is overdue for a reversal in polarity. What will this mean for civilization as we know it? Not sure, but most agree it would not be good. Are we starting to see signs of this reversal? This is purely supposition, but I think so.

As far as Al the Goracle, how will cap and trade save this planet? Will he use the revenue genrated and install a thermostat on the sun? It's ridiculous. There are simply too many variables in our climate system. Computer models are only as good as the data you feed them. That's not saying much. For Al Gore (who failed science) to put all his eggs in the CO2 basket, is just plain stupid. But what would one expect from the chairman of a company who buys and sells carbon credits?

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/06/04/gore-invests-carbon-credit-company-will-media-care

My conclusion:

The planet is not anthropologically unstable. Some of the people are.

"On sunny days, the air directly above a black surface is hotter than other, non-black body surfaces."

Black body? Uh oh - is that a racist thing?

"Black body? Uh oh - is that a racist thing?"

Only if someone makes it a racist thing. Other than that... no, it is not.

Correlation between magnetic flux and synoptic-scale meteorology is very weak, and even then only pertinent to exceedingly short spans of time, on the order of decades.

Earth's core generates a magnetic field, not an electrical one. It has absolutely no direct effect on lightning; to wit, shifts, or even a reversal, of Earth's magnetic dipoles will not alter the frequency of global lightning strikes.

Please make a better effort to educate yourself, you're discrediting the intelligence of our conservative beliefs.

Lasagna Hog

I never mentioned lighting strikes. That was Rich--but since you mention it and insult our friend's intelligence I will address it.

I'm don't really know. The magnetic field of the earth and sun interact and if the sun's heliosphere changes with the sunspots (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3222476/Suns-protective-bubble-is-shrinking.html) and if there is a big fall off of the earth's magnetic field before the reversal or a lot of anomolies happening such as are happening in the South Pacific, then there is going to be a large loss of protection from outside the system particles, cosmic rays, etc. That is going to raise holy hell with the atmosphere and generate some very intense localized phenomena. The intensity of these interactions, which will include a lot of ionization, will probably reach all the way to the surface rather than being far above the weather. I just don't know and cannot be sure that it won't increase lightning strikes. I sort of doubt that you do either.

Lasagna Hog,

"Earth's core generates a magnetic field, not an electrical one."

There is an [absolute] correlation between the magnetic field and atmospheric electricity.

Drum roll please... That's why it's called ELECTRO-magnetic field. The earth's iron core, is at the very heart of this life-giving system.

"Correlation between magnetic flux and synoptic-scale meteorology is very weak"

Please, by all means, explain. And by very weak, would that be very weak like the forcing of a (trace) triatomic molecule? More? Less?

"you're discrediting the intelligence of our conservative beliefs"

What, pray tell, do "our" intelligent political viewpoints have to do with the science of the earth's shifting electromagnetic field?

Sheesh.