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Googer

Lifer
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Originally posted by: DAGTA
Originally posted by: Ulfwald
the earth is now warmer because the sun is actually hotter.


:laugh;:laugh;:laugh;:laugh;:laugh;

*gasp*

:laugh;:laugh;:laugh;:laugh;:laugh;

It's a fact, the sun is hotter now than it was many years ago. Carbon Dioxide aka CO2 is the thrid most common greenhouse gas in the atmosphere at less than 6%. Do you know what the most common greenhouse gas is by percentage?
 

DAGTA

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Originally posted by: Googer
Originally posted by: DAGTA
Originally posted by: Ulfwald
the earth is now warmer because the sun is actually hotter.


:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

*gasp*

:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

It's a fact, the sun is hotter now than it was many years ago. Carbon Dioxide aka CO2 is the thrid most common greenhouse gas in the atmosphere at less than 6%. Do you know what the most common greenhouse gas is by percentage?


The sun, a star is space, is not significantly hotter or cooler than it was at any point in the last million years.
 
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SlitheryDee

Originally posted by: Googer
Originally posted by: DAGTA
Originally posted by: Ulfwald
the earth is now warmer because the sun is actually hotter.


:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

*gasp*

:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

It's a fact, the sun is hotter now than it was many years ago. Carbon Dioxide aka CO2 is the thrid most common greenhouse gas in the atmosphere at less than 6%. Do you know what the most common greenhouse gas is by percentage?


nitrogen...right?
 

Ika

Lifer
Mar 22, 2006
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Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
Originally posted by: Googer
Originally posted by: DAGTA
Originally posted by: Ulfwald
the earth is now warmer because the sun is actually hotter.


:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

*gasp*

:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

It's a fact, the sun is hotter now than it was many years ago. Carbon Dioxide aka CO2 is the thrid most common greenhouse gas in the atmosphere at less than 6%. Do you know what the most common greenhouse gas is by percentage?


nitrogen...right?

Nitrogen, which comprises around 78% of our atmosphere. CO2 is definitely not 6%; oxygen is 21%. 78 + 21 + 6 != 100

By the way, the earth is actually cooler now than it was several thousand years ago. Just a thought.
 

MrPickins

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May 24, 2003
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Originally posted by: Ulfwald
Originally posted by: madeupfacts
Originally posted by: Ulfwald
Do us all a favor, cross your legs, hold your nose and fart. This will clear your mind so you can think properly.

Yet people like you are unable to offer a shread of evidence to refute what you think is a rediculous claim

Get a life jackass. You bed wetting liberals resort to scaring everyone with all this so called evidence of global warming. Just like scaring all the old folks that the conservatives want to take away social security.

Temp records have only been kept for a a short time compared to how long the world has been around. and the earth is now warmer because the sun is actually hotter. It is all a NATURAL process.

Now you can go back to hoping an apeasemant minded liberal gets elected so we can set a pull out date in Iraq and hope the radical muslim terrorists don't attack again.


Take it to P&N, troll.
 

Lazy8s

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Jun 23, 2004
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Originally posted by: DrPizza
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus


What about all the CO2 released to havest and prepare the food make them fat in the first place?

Not to mention the SUV's they have to drive because they simply can't fit into smaller vehicles.


Yeah but fat people have a harder time moving which means they breathe more. The more you breath the more co2 comes out. Everyone hold your breath every other minute to stop global warming!!!
 

Googer

Lifer
Nov 11, 2004
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Originally posted by: Aflac
Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
Originally posted by: Googer
Originally posted by: DAGTA
Originally posted by: Ulfwald
the earth is now warmer because the sun is actually hotter.


:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

*gasp*

:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

It's a fact, the sun is hotter now than it was many years ago. Carbon Dioxide aka CO2 is the thrid most common greenhouse gas in the atmosphere at less than 6%. Do you know what the most common greenhouse gas is by percentage?


nitrogen...right?

Nitrogen, which comprises around 78% of our atmosphere. CO2 is definitely not 6%; oxygen is 21%. 78 + 21 + 6 != 100

By the way, the earth is actually cooler now than it was several thousand years ago. Just a thought.

I don't mean the total percentage of gas in the atmosphere. I mean off all greahouse gases (excluding non-greenhouse gas) as a whole CO2 only comprises 6%, at 90% water vapor is the largest green house gas in the atmosphere.

 

So

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Originally posted by: zerocool1
Originally posted by: IAteYourMother
you're fat, get over it. You're only being a burden on the health care system.

and also burning more gas. I read an article a while back about the increased costs in travel due to weight increases.

...and fat people killed my puppy! :|
 

JulesMaximus

No Lifer
Jul 3, 2003
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Originally posted by: Ulfwald
Originally posted by: madeupfacts
Originally posted by: Ulfwald
Do us all a favor, cross your legs, hold your nose and fart. This will clear your mind so you can think properly.

Yet people like you are unable to offer a shread of evidence to refute what you think is a rediculous claim

Get a life jackass. You bed wetting liberals resort to scaring everyone with all this so called evidence of global warming. Just like scaring all the old folks that the conservatives want to take away social security.

Temp records have only been kept for a a short time compared to how long the world has been around. and the earth is now warmer because the sun is actually hotter. It is all a NATURAL process.

That doesn't mean that we aren't affecting our planet with our consumption of fossil fuels or that we should simply ignore it. You can't prove it therefore it's not a threat. Yeah, that's some sound logic right there...:roll:

Now you can go back to hoping an apeasemant minded liberal gets elected so we can set a pull out date in Iraq and hope the radical muslim terrorists don't attack again.

Because invading Iraq has done so much to curb terrorism and improve things in the middle east...:roll: Might I remind you, 9/11 happened on Bush's watch?
 

So

Lifer
Jul 2, 2001
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Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: Ulfwald
Originally posted by: madeupfacts
Originally posted by: Ulfwald
Do us all a favor, cross your legs, hold your nose and fart. This will clear your mind so you can think properly.

Yet people like you are unable to offer a shread of evidence to refute what you think is a rediculous claim

Get a life jackass. You bed wetting liberals resort to scaring everyone with all this so called evidence of global warming. Just like scaring all the old folks that the conservatives want to take away social security.

Temp records have only been kept for a a short time compared to how long the world has been around. and the earth is now warmer because the sun is actually hotter. It is all a NATURAL process.

That doesn't mean that we aren't affecting our planet with our consumption of fossil fuels or that we should simply ignore it. You can't prove it therefore it's not a threat. Yeah, that's some sound logic right there...:roll:

Now you can go back to hoping an apeasemant minded liberal gets elected so we can set a pull out date in Iraq and hope the radical muslim terrorists don't attack again.

Because invading Iraq has done so much to curb terrorism and improve things in the middle east...:roll: Might I remind you, 9/11 happened on Bush's watch?

Actually, a lack of proof IS the main reason not to act. What you're arguing over is wether or not there is proof. Most people agree there is, but don't pretend that we don't need proof in order to act. That's more idiotic than what he says.
 

Pastore

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Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: Ulfwald
Originally posted by: madeupfacts
Originally posted by: Ulfwald
Do us all a favor, cross your legs, hold your nose and fart. This will clear your mind so you can think properly.

Yet people like you are unable to offer a shread of evidence to refute what you think is a rediculous claim

Get a life jackass. You bed wetting liberals resort to scaring everyone with all this so called evidence of global warming. Just like scaring all the old folks that the conservatives want to take away social security.

Temp records have only been kept for a a short time compared to how long the world has been around. and the earth is now warmer because the sun is actually hotter. It is all a NATURAL process.

That doesn't mean that we aren't affecting our planet with our consumption of fossil fuels or that we should simply ignore it. You can't prove it therefore it's not a threat. Yeah, that's some sound logic right there...:roll:

Now you can go back to hoping an apeasemant minded liberal gets elected so we can set a pull out date in Iraq and hope the radical muslim terrorists don't attack again.

Because invading Iraq has done so much to curb terrorism and improve things in the middle east...:roll: Might I remind you, 9/11 happened on Bush's watch?

Actually, a lack of proof IS the main reason not to act. What you're arguing over is wether or not there is proof. Most people agree there is, but don't pretend that we don't need proof in order to act. That's more idiotic than what he says.

This thread was good until you whack jobs started getting all serious.
 

JulesMaximus

No Lifer
Jul 3, 2003
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Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: Ulfwald
Originally posted by: madeupfacts
Originally posted by: Ulfwald
Do us all a favor, cross your legs, hold your nose and fart. This will clear your mind so you can think properly.

Yet people like you are unable to offer a shread of evidence to refute what you think is a rediculous claim

Get a life jackass. You bed wetting liberals resort to scaring everyone with all this so called evidence of global warming. Just like scaring all the old folks that the conservatives want to take away social security.

Temp records have only been kept for a a short time compared to how long the world has been around. and the earth is now warmer because the sun is actually hotter. It is all a NATURAL process.

That doesn't mean that we aren't affecting our planet with our consumption of fossil fuels or that we should simply ignore it. You can't prove it therefore it's not a threat. Yeah, that's some sound logic right there...:roll:

Now you can go back to hoping an apeasemant minded liberal gets elected so we can set a pull out date in Iraq and hope the radical muslim terrorists don't attack again.

Because invading Iraq has done so much to curb terrorism and improve things in the middle east...:roll: Might I remind you, 9/11 happened on Bush's watch?

Actually, a lack of proof IS the main reason not to act. What you're arguing over is wether or not there is proof. Most people agree there is, but don't pretend that we don't need proof in order to act. That's more idiotic than what he says.

Actually there is proof. It's called glaciers and the ice caps. They can give us a very good picture of the history of the climate of our planet.

Also, there are glaciers the world over that are melting or completely melted within the past 20 years that have been around for hundreds of thousands of years prior. That is some pretty clear evidence IMO.

Edit-And nothing is more idiotic than what the OP said.
 

compnovice

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Originally posted by: madeupfacts
think about it. The more mass a person has, the more carbon he stores as oppose to releasing it into the atmosphere. 300,000,000 people in the US. Now suppose if we average it all out the average American is 10 lbs over weight, thats about 3 billions lbs of extra fat! And fat is made mostly of carbon! So I imagine the over weight population keeps at least a billion or 2 lbs of CO2 out of the atmosphere! Now if all these baby boomers were to die, his body would decompose and all that carbon would be released. Scary scary thought.

I salute you fat gluttonous people! It is through your noble efforts and sacrifice that the globe has not yet implode upon youself!

Sir....are you eating 9 times a day at McD's to eat and live this theory...
 

herm0016

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for all of you... some facts.... the sun has been gaining a bit less than one percent in energy output over its ENTIRE life span... its just the way it is. and... we dont know that the glaciers were there.. did you see them? cuz if you did it would be great to know. carbon dating and all the other techneques we have are only accurate (at least to my knowledge to a few hundred years at very most, usually much higher, and the longer it sits there, the more things effect the lever of carbon isotope they measure.
now what... oh..

temp records and water levels and etc etc have only been kept for a paper thickness like period on the miles and miles of time scale we are talking about. also, there is evidence that the ozone goes through cycles, meaning its just another earthly cycle, just one that takes a thousand years or so. we have only been measuring the hole in antartica for 50 years tops, there is no way to conclude that its our fult. also what if we started measureing it when it was at the top of a cycle? Our CO2 output is a very very small fraction of what mother nature puts into the air every year seince the dawn of time!, its forest fires, its volcanos, rotting fish, you get the point ( or at least you should!). i do belive we have a very small part to do with all this, but, i also belive that we are takeing this way to far, we are spending too much time worring about pollution when we should be spending it makeing things more effecent, insted of makeing scrubbers that take carbon of of air, but then put it right back in the land fill, where it gets trucked by a big diesel truck, gets pushed around by a big bulldozer, and off gasses into the atmosphere with the rest of the rotting junk., why dont we make things that use less energy and then not scrub as much carbon... on and on we can go..... and now for the neffing and bantering and refuting of things that are true, so as to make them look false and humans like they are rapeing the earth. go for it!!!!