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CajunRick
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Posted: Mon Feb 19th, 2007 11:45 pm |
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Sydney, Feb 19, 2007 / 01:36 pm (CNA).- Cardinal George Pell is calling for caution regarding exaggerated claims of severe global warming and says he’s “deeply skeptical about man-made catastrophic global warming, but still open to further evidence.”
In his weekly Sunday Telegraph column, the cardinal-archbishop of Sydney said people have been “subjected to a lot of nonsense about climate disasters as some zealots have been painting extreme scenarios to frighten us.”
He called those who make claims about ice caps melting and ocean levels rising spectacularly “doomsdayers” and “scaremongers.”
He also called to account journalists who have called for Nuremberg-style trials for global warming skeptics and who have compared skeptics with “Holocaust deniers.” The media during the last 100 years, he also noted, has flip-flopped between promoting fears of a coming Ice Age and fears of global warming.
“What we were seeing from the doomsdayers was an induced dose of mild hysteria, semi-religious if you like, but dangerously close to superstition,” he said. “I would be surprised if industrial pollution, and carbon emissions, had no ill effect at all. But enough is enough.”
The cardinal acknowledged that enormous climate changes have occurred in world history, such as the Ice Ages and Noah’s flood. Long and terrible droughts are not infrequent in Australian history either, he pointed out.
He cited some scientific evidence to try to make sense of it and noted that the evidence on warming is, in fact, mixed.
He noted that:
- Global warming has been increasing constantly since 1975 at the rate of less than one-fifth of a degree centigrade per decade.
- The concentration of carbon dioxide increased surface temperatures more in winter than in summer and especially in mid and high latitudes over land, while there was a global cooling of the stratosphere.
- The East Anglia University climate research unit found that global temperatures did not increase between 1998 and 2005.
- A recent NASA satellite found that the Southern Hemisphere has not warmed in the past 25 years.
“The science is more complicated than the propaganda!” he concluded.
The above article is reposted with permission from the Catholic News Agency.
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chnchris
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Posted: Tue Feb 20th, 2007 08:03 pm |
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Al Gore is probably going to win the Nobel Peace Prize
as the Global Warming Fuhrer. 
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Ampersand
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Posted: Tue Apr 10th, 2007 06:44 pm |
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I happen to have studied this topic quite extensively in college as a meteorology student. There has been a lot of extreme forecasting about how hot will the temperatures increase by 2030. And yes, it's true that in the 1970's there was a fear of "global cooling." I even saw a very bad B-rated movie about it called Deadly Harvest.
Just something to keep everyone in mind of: the data climate forecasters use that can be considered to be scientific accurate only stretch back to about 1965, and it's limited because there isn't as nice of a world-wide coverage and distribution that they'd like. Beyond that, temperature and rainfall data is limited as the measurements weren't as accurate and the coverage wasn't as extensive. Beyond, say, the 1750's, climatologist will have to use indirect measurements to deduce what the climate was like in the past. That comes from the measurement of tree rings and ice samples that have trapped air bubbles and you could measure such statistics in. The errors of these samples are getting better, but it's still not quite as good the direct temperature data from 1965 and beyond. All of this is the data that is fed into models similar to that of those that forecast one to three months ahead of time. And often times, those are way off the mark.
I'm not saying that the Cardinal is correct or incorrect in his assessment other than to say that the science behind the debate is very complicated. What I am saying is that such things may seem conclusive now change swiftly.
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BodRod
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Posted: Tue Apr 10th, 2007 08:06 pm |
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I have been very impressed with the global warming they are having back east these days. Also, we have had the coldest winter in 35 years where I live. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, global warming you say? 
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