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15 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Scientists find sea sp... · 0 replies · +1 points

Unlike religions, science continuously offers facts and proof. If you want to see delusions instead of factual findings, so be it. If you want to declare the infallibility of an unproven god, so be it. You should seek professional help.

15 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Scientists find sea sp... · 1 reply · +1 points

Gee, I guess that means the original article about the DNA in the sponges was totally useless. After all, the work was done by deluded, blind, scientists whose reasoning and experiments are subject to delusion. Yeah, I see clearly now, all things perceived by humans are subject to being false. That must also include gods, since they are perceived by humans as well, or created by them. If you don't trust your senses that's your problem. It's easy to dispute or discard anything if you rationalize it as delusion. Science is the study of phenomena, If you prefer to debate that go ahead, but be prepared to prove god, unless you wish to admit that your “perceptions” of it are possibly false.

15 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Scientists find sea sp... · 1 reply · +1 points

Gods are not in this plane of existence, if they exist at all. A god is, by nature, unproven and unprovable, that’s why religions rely on faith, and that’s where science and religion differ. Science studies the events that occur around us and attempts to explain what causes them. Religion tries to explain things science hasn’t explained yet. (Example; in the far past people believed thunder and lightening were caused by angry gods. I think we’re past that now.) As for you one god, well that’s your BELIEF, and you’re entitled to it. Good luck.

15 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Scientists find sea sp... · 0 replies · +1 points

Skeeve, check you outgoing mail for viruses, I rcvd. 3 copies of this e-mail.
As for your statements concerning sensory organs, I have seen wonderful examples proving the evolutionary development of these organs. They are easy to find. As for the physical phenomena around us, there’s the Big Bang to thank for that. Yes, scientific findings are challenged, changed and discredited, but who does the challenging, god? No, other scientists do, and that underscores the difference between science and religion. Scientific hypothesis and theories must be falsifiable, that is, one of the basic tenets of a theory is; other scientist must be able to disprove it! How do you disprove a god? You can’t!

15 years ago @ Breitbart.com - UN says Pakistan flood... · 1 reply · 0 points

As was pointed out by the scientific agencies I cited, we can expect extreme weather swings as the earth gets hotter due to AGW. (NOAA report) The rains we get will most likely not be the type needed to grow crops, they will most likely be of the increasingly common flood types we are beginning to see now, the type that wash away top soils and ruin arable lands. As I said, Greenland would be about the only one to gain arable land, but if the area is in drought or receives, mostly, monsoon type rains, that will be of little help. And anyway, it will not offset the arable land that will be lost due to lack of water, due to loss of glaciers.

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The American Heritage® Dictionary - (2 definitions)
'glaciate' (glā́shē-āt́, -sē-)
[Latin glaciāre, glaciāt-, to freeze, from glaciēs, ice.]
(transitive verb: -at·ed, -at·ing, -ates.)
1.To cover with ice or a glacier.
2.To subject to or affect by glacial action.
3.To freeze.
As you pointed out, we are in an INTERGLACIAL period and have been for about 11,000 years. Because we are in this INTERGLACIAL period, the glaciers are slowly melting, supplying the rivers that people use to irrigate and grow crops. When the glaciers are gone there is no more water to grow crops.

15 years ago @ Breitbart.com - UN says Pakistan flood... · 4 replies · -1 points

Global warming of the past 50 years is due primarily to human-induced increases in heat-trapping gases, according to the report. Many types of extreme weather and climate event changes have been observed during this time period and continued changes are projected for this century. Specific future projections include:
•Abnormally hot days and nights, along with heat waves, are very likely to become more common. Cold nights are very likely to become less common.
•Sea ice extent is expected to continue to decrease and may even disappear in the Arctic Ocean in summer in coming decades.
•Precipitation, on average, is likely to be less frequent but more intense.
•Droughts are likely to become more frequent and severe in some regions.
Gee, does this mean we can talk again now, or do you want to study-up a little?

15 years ago @ Breitbart.com - UN says Pakistan flood... · 0 replies · -1 points

Expect More Droughts, Heavy Downpours, Excessive Heat, And Intense Hurricanes Due To Global Warming, NOAA
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change previously evaluated extreme weather and climate events on a global basis in this same context. However, there has not been a specific assessment across North America prior to this report.
The report is based on scientific evidence that a warming world will be accompanied by changes in the intensity, duration, frequency, and geographic extent of weather and climate extremes.
[--] "We will continue to see some of the biggest impacts of global warming coming from changes in weather and climate extremes,” said report co-chair Gerry Meehl, Ph.D., of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. "This report focuses for the first time on changes of extremes specifically over North America."

15 years ago @ Breitbart.com - UN says Pakistan flood... · 0 replies · -1 points

At a meeting of the American Geophysical Union (December 17, 2008), scientists detailed evidence in support of the controversial idea that the introduction of large-scale rice agriculture in Asia, coupled with extensive deforestation in Europe began to alter world climate by pumping significant amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere over the last 1,000 years. In turn, a warmer atmosphere heated the oceans making them much less efficient storehouses of carbon dioxide and reinforcing global warming, possibly forestalling the onset of a new glacial age.

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From Wikipedia” “The Earth has been in an interglacial period known as the Holocene for more than 11,000 years. It was conventional wisdom that "the typical interglacial period lasts about 12,000 years,”but this has been called into question recently. For example, an article in Nature argues that the current interglacial might be most analogous to a previous interglacial that lasted 28,000 years. Predicted changes in orbital forcing suggest that the next glacial period would begin at least 50,000 years from now, EVEN IN THE ABSENCE OF HUMAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING (see Milankovitch cycles). Moreover, ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING from increased greenhouse gases might outweigh orbital forcing for as long as intensive use of fossil fuels continues.

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