A hoax scientific study pointing to ocean bacteria as the overwhelming cause of global warming fooled some skeptics on Thursday who doubt growing evidence that human activities are to blame.
Laden with scientific jargon and published online in the previously unknown “Journal of Geoclimatic Studies” based in Japan, the report suggested the findings could be “the death of manmade global warming theory.”
Skeptics jumped on the report. A British scientist e-mailed the report to 2,000 colleagues before spotting it was a spoof. Another from the U.S. called it a “blockbuster.”
It was not clear who was behind the report, which said bacteria in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans emitted at least 300 times more carbon dioxide than industrial activity — a finding that, if true, would overturn the widely held view of scientists that burning fossil fuels are the main cause of warming.
I hope no one tells Bill O’Reilly that it’s a hoax. He’ll believe it. He understands as little science as the cretin in the White House.
Evolution, bitches!
#17, ICECAP organization is a PAID / FINANCED by certain “companies” that want USA to continue it’s main substance abuse.
Many great minds at PriusChat.com took apart ICECAP
http://priuschat.com/index.php?showtopic=40648
When you take away meth from an addict, does he/she play nice, or, becomes violent?
let’s assume global warming is a hoax and just tell industry to quit their pollution controls altogether!
who needs clean water or air? let’s poison everything! who cares?!?!
all i care about is driving a big fat suv! hell yeah!!
more pollution, today! yaaaay! let’s all live in an open-air garbage pit!!!
now that’s what conservatives want! let’s give it to ‘em!
#20 MikeN you’re right, let’s wait until the oil runs out to look for an alternative!!
you’re a genius!
#4 chuck
you’re right no human behavior has any effect on the global climate, so we should stop all attempts to clean up the environment!
perfect! now go move your house into a sewer since you think pollution is good.
#19, iHotAir(YOP)
Bullshit.
There is no such thing as a meterologist. If you meant some one who studies measurement, it is spelled metrologist. If you meant someone who studies the weather, it is spelled meteorologist . If you can’t spell it, then you ain’t it.
Second, which ever science you follow, you would know not to use YouTube as a reference. Only stupid people would put their faith in something like that.
Yeah, I forgot to add the disclaimer that Algore is God and every single skeptic is paid off by Big Oil. (I need to figure out how to get on one of these payouts.)
Did you ever think that maybe some of these scientists throw in with some of these groups because they feel this is important and it’s the only way to get the word out? It’s not as is the AGW proponents aren’t being paid off via research grants.
BTW: Who cares what Prius owner think? There isn’t a prius that’s usable outside the city yet. When you show me a Surburban sized Prius that can go 1000mi in one day with only 2-3 10 min. stops that doesn’t cost more than a current Surburban, I’ll pay attention
#26 – I can spell just fine. Typing however is problematic some days.
YouTube is not necessarily a reference but is an excellent distribution mechanism that gets around the gatekeepers in traditional media.
Another shit topic.
About time for Dvorak to stop pumping this dog on the podcasts.
#28,
When you make such profound comments and claim some type of scientific background, you should have some degree of knowledge. That would include the ability to correctly spell your own profession and be able to list some publications to back up your point. Because you apparently can’t do either I call bullshit. You are just another fish fart enthusiast.
Maybe, just maybe, if you had made a few more spelling errors that might have washed.
#30 – Have you watched the presentation? I’m sure it was just staged by actors just to put something on YouTube.
As far a spelling/typo production goes, you’ll see at least one a day from me. The “Doh, I should slow down and proofread more” goes on all the time.
Also, I looked back at #19 and to clarify: I didn’t mean that I’m a meteorologist (or metrologist). What I meant is that I would put more weight on the opinion of a meteorologist (or even a metrologist) over a career politician.
#16
There were two causes of the little ice age, increased volcanic activity and decreased solar activity. Particularly the eruption of the volcano Tambora in Indonesia is credited with causing the cooling trend. Both of these causes were necessary for a cool down. If for example solar activity had increased all the crap put in the air by the volcanoes would have acted as a blanket, heating the earth rather then cooling it.
In regards to human caused global warming, yes we are contributing to the warming trend even if we are not the sole cause . The suns activity has increased in recent years, however we are making the blanket that will warm the earth. Humans are contributing to the over all warming, just like a volcano can under the right conditions.
However this should be irrelevant. We should not wait until the filth we produce causes us problems. We should strive to make less filth and clean up what we made! I don’t understand you people who think polluting is OK unless it totally and obviously destroys the environment. Do you wallow in shit at home hoping it won’t make you sick? Do you drink your own urine just because it’s sterile? I do you suck just a little car exhaust because just a little won’t kill you? I sure hope not! If there are better, cleaner ways to run things let use them and discard the old dirty ways.
#27 GlobalWarmer my Fav poster !!!
Your prayer has been heard & answered.
How about getting more MPG than my Prius with your Suburban?
Be able to use ANY fuel?
Double your torque ! Double the HP !
Jonathan Goodwin is the answer.
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/120/motorhead-messiah.html
Large trucks / SUV’s are the ideal platform for Diesel-Electric & 4 wheel drives. My Prius is too small to house an efficient diesel engine paired to a generator and powerful electric motors.
Neil Young & Arnold are having the sweet cars converted to pure awesomeness.
Quote :
This is more than a mere American Chopper–style makeover. Goodwin’s experiments point to a radically cleaner and cheaper future for the American car. The numbers are simple: With a $5,000 bolt-on kit he co-engineered–the poor man’s version of a Goodwin conversion–he can immediately transform any diesel vehicle to burn 50% less fuel and produce 80% fewer emissions. On a full-size gas-guzzler, he figures the kit earns its money back in about a year–or, on a regular car, two–while hitting an emissions target from the outset that’s more stringent than any regulation we’re likely to see in our lifetime. “Johnathan’s in a league of his own,” says Martin Tobias, CEO of Imperium Renewables, the nation’s largest producer of biodiesel. “Nobody out there is doing experiments like he is.”
Converting my Prius to full-electric at low speed – 35mph today costs over 8K$ for EV-20.
A Prius costs more than 30k$, about the same as most SUV’s.
So a Suburban Converted by Jon Goodwin, is cheaper than my Prius upgraded to PHEV w/EV-20.
Like #27 likes to say, I can’t haul a fridge with 10×24 cases of brew at the same time. Not that I ever need to to that.
Only idiots would accept computer modeling of choatic systems as “proof” that man causes global warming. Hell, it gets even more absurd when you realize that the “consensus” is based upon averaging the results from — according to a report I read last week — 19 computer models.
Now that’s great science! We have moved from a consensus of scientists to a consensus of computer models.
The Scientific Method is dying from cancer of the brain.
HA HA!!! dumbasses.
#32 – “Do you drink your own urine just because it’s sterile?”
No, I drink it because I like the taste.
#33 -35 Sound’s great. The WRONG way to solve a problem is to cut back and go smaller. The RIGHT way to find a better power source, keep the size and not increase the cost. Excellent.
You’re confusing things in 35 though. A Prius is a great go cart for urban only use, but it is not only a truly useful vehicle. The true comparison is the converted Surburban vs a regular Surburban.
The drive I mentioned in #27? You may not need to do that, but I do.
As far as a 10 cases of beer, I don’t need to drive with them but I do need to haul that many home at one time.
#39 what I mean in #35 is that the TCO for an upgraded Prius is more expensive than a converted Suburban with Fridge Capacity.
Also if you buy a brand new Suburban, you can actually get a credit / resell the lousy motor + transmission, for probably half the $$$ of the 5K$ diesel-electric upgrade. For going from 8MPG to 60MPG, upgrade pays for itself quickly.
Neil Young is converting an 1960 Plymouth, that will probably beat Civics in drag races, now that is awesome.
Meanwhile, GlobalWarmer, get some of these stickers, Hydrocarbon powered Eco-Vehicle that you can stick on your pollution belching behemoths.
Two per pack. Only 6.95$ !!!
http://www.glennbeck.com/news/07232007c.shtml
Drive the eco-nuts bonkers
and get support of 95% of your local population that don’t know that Hydrocarbon == Gas.
Glenn Beck has some nice stories from Hydrocarbon fans on his site, funny reads.