Tea Party Republicans are Biggest Climate Change Deniers, New Pew Poll Finds

www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/11/01/only-tea-party-members-believe-climate-change-is-not-happening-new-pew-poll-finds/

Years of Living Dangerously Premiere - Full Episode

www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvhCnYvxQQ

This is an excellent new series on climate change.

Hollywood celebrities and respected journalists span the globe to explore the issues of climate change and cover intimate stories of human triumph and tragedy.

Watch new episodes Mondays at 8PM ET/PT, only on SHOWTIME.

Years of Living Dangerously - Season 1: Why I Care - Ian Somerhalder

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5X2PuICmyI

Years of Living Dangerously - Season 1: Bonus Footage - Harrison Ford

www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Fs4MyM0AU

Years of Living Dangerously - Season 1: Why I Care - Harrison Ford

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DtRVEgixzk

Years of Living Dangerously - Season 1: Episode 3 Clip - Another Big Debate

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV-ui6XyPX4

Dang, this one took so many twist and turns it almost made me dizzy. but what a load of pure crap. But just following the funding tells so much.



Can you imagine a report by two government agencies and a revolving door with the researchers. But really what did they day?



So the only thing absolutely positive in this whole report are the number of if and maybes slanted to meet the stringent demands of their sponsors, the government. So let me rush out real quick and get my ruler calibrated so I wont miss a single of those tens of centimeters of sea rise over the next 2 to 5 centuries. And if they ever get those ships out of the ice in Antarctica, I ask them to keep me informed so I will know if I need to change my ruler for something to measure a couple of meters.

Can you imagine, conservatives more intelligent (no I didn't say intellectual) than liberals. Now if they would only raise that level to understand you can't reform politicians of either flavor, they may get something done.

And just what the heck is the repugantcant and dumbocrat leaning independent? Isn't that somewhere in the same class as Army Intelligence? And a Pew report, is that related to Puuuu...ke.

But what the hey, keeps the little minded masses entertained until the next reality or sports show comes on the BoobTube.

Wow that didn't take long, here we have a reality show at it's finest, sponsored by our great government supplemented by the first Hollywood idiot, Harrison Ford.

But I really loved how they took this modified military jet with a huge carbon footprint to see how much CO2 and methane were in the atmosphere. Being this is such a brilliant scheme, they probably put the measuring instruments in the jet's exhaust.

Wow from Vampire Diaries to environmental scientist, not sure what a Vampire Diary would be other than a placation of the masses but with all those government scientist I could see how this guy could be just as qualified.

Yep, without any doubt, you have proved you are a moron. You don't know a single fact about any aspect of the topic. Yet you know the answers and causes to everything. I wonder if you finished high school.

We have had internet trolls here before but ... wow!

Oh and the height of depravity, MSNBC's super idiot.

Back with the old moron stuff again, eh. Glad to know I can get you so upset, makes my day. I enjoy a good chuckle and never take forum characters very seriously. And as I have stated so often, I'm not here to be popular, in fact just the opposite.

Now to refute that rebuttal, wait there isn't any. But you are mistaken, I don't need to know the answers and causes of everything, that would make one an idiot. All I need to know are the questions necessary to find all those answers.

But it does seem that one wonders about many things so how can another take any of those wonders seriously. That is the difference, I don't wonder about anything that I'm not willing to find the answer.

And oh by the way, you offer a source, I do read them. In fact the one that has you so upset I have to track back about 8 levels before the facts started to verify and then it was just a matter of tracking down the funding to determine what it verified and with global warming it keeps coming back to the same issues, either NASA of or other government agency or government funded NGO.

But what is remarkable is Ian Joughin that has been used and cited in many works for his work in physics. He has been tracking and calculating the Greenland glacier since 1998. His work of it's movement into the sea and resultant melting estimating that it would take anywhere for 200 to 500 years to melt and raise the sea level by tens of centimeters. But his area of expertise is:



But the joke is NASA and the National Science Foundation and their portrayal or should we say misrepresentation of the facts to meet a government agenda.

So blow smoke and I'll show up with a fire extinguisher. Doesn't bother me if you want to call that a troll, I'll accept that.

NASA Spots Worrisome Antarctic Ice Sheet Melt

news.yahoo.com/nasa-spots-worrisome-antarctic-ice-sheet-melt-183822453.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — The huge West Antarctic ice sheet is starting a glacially slow collapse in an unstoppable way, two new studies show. Alarmed scientists say that means even more sea level rise than they figured.

The worrisome outcomes won't be seen soon. Scientists are talking hundreds of years, but over that time the melt that has started could eventually add 4 to 12 feet to current sea levels.

A NASA study looking at 40 years of ground, airplane and satellite data of what researchers call "the weak underbelly of West Antarctica" shows the melt is happening faster than scientists had predicted, crossing a critical threshold that has begun a domino-like process.

"It does seem to be happening quickly," said University of Washington glaciologist Ian Joughin, lead author of one study. "We really are witnessing the beginning stages."

It's likely because of man-made global warming and the ozone hole which have changed the Antarctic winds and warmed the water that eats away at the feet of the ice, researchers said at a NASA news conference Monday.

"The system is in sort of a chain reaction that is unstoppable," said NASA glaciologist Eric Rignot, chief author of the NASA study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. "Every process in this reaction is feeding the next one."

Curbing emissions from fossil fuels to slow climate change will probably not halt the melting but it could slow the speed of the problem, Rignot said.

Rignot, who also is a scientist at the University of California Irvine, and other scientists said the "grounding line" which could be considered a dam that stops glacier retreat has essentially been breached. The only thing that could stop the retreat in this low-altitude region is a mountain or hill and there is none. Another way to think of it is like wine flowing from a horizontal uncorked bottle, he said.

Rignot looked at six glaciers in the region with special concentration on the Thwaites glacier, about the size of New Mexico and Arizona combined. Thwaites is so connected to the other glaciers that it helps trigger loss elsewhere, said Joughin, whose study was released Monday by the journal Science.

Joughin's study uses computer simulations and concludes "the early-stage collapse has begun." Rignot, who used data that showed a speed up of melt since the 1990s, said the word "collapse" may imply too fast a loss, it would be more the start of a slow-motion collapse and "we can't stop it."

Several outside experts in Antarctica praised the work and said they too were worried.

"It's bad news. It's a game changer," said Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, who wasn't part of either study. "We thought we had a while to wait and see. We've started down a process that we always said was the biggest worry and biggest risk from West Antarctica."

The Rignot study sees eventually 4 feet (1.2 meters) of sea level rise from the melt. But it could trigger neighboring ice sheet loss that could mean a total of 10 to 12 feet of sea level rise, the study in Science said, and Rignot agreed.

The recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change don't include melt from West Antarctic or Greenland in their projections and this would mean far more sea level rise, said Sridhar Anandakrishnan, professor of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University. That means sea level rise by the year 2100 is likely to be about three feet, he said.

Even while the West Antarctic ice sheet is melting, the much larger East Antarctic ice sheet seems stable because it is cooler, Scambos said.

Climate change studies show Antarctica is a complicated continent in how it reacts. For example, just last month Antarctic sea ice levels — not the ice on the continent — reached a record in how far they extended. That has little or no relation to the larger more crucial ice sheet, Scambos and other scientists say.

NASA, the art of deception or how to take things out of context to mislead and misguide. In 1998, Ian was at the University of Washington, but in a papers in 1999 and 2000, Ian was at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. And the 1998 paper to which this refers was on the Greenland glacier. The 1999 paper did deal with the Antarctica:



Wait a minute, what is this thickening thing? Isn't it amazing at how the idiotic masses will believe anything the government tells them without ever checking out the sources or facts. Speaking of facts, the closest most ever get to facts are the politically slanted newspapers owned by the same corporations that own the rest of the mass media, all the news you need to know.

And here is a great presentation that will show the entire global warming hoax is just that a hoax.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jzBWmpzifc

Al Gore Explains The Real Motivation Behind Republicans' Climate Change Denial

www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/12/al-gore-republicans_n_5313028.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

Despite the release of a White House report detailing the devastating effects of global warming already underway, many Republicans are unwavering in their belief that humans play no role in climate change.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), for instance, told ABC News on Sunday that he does not "believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it."

And last month, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) claimed the global warming debate had become "dumbed down," before making claims on historic temperatures that stand in stark contrast to the work of climate scientists.

Former vice president Al Gore says he sees the true motivation behind these remarks: currying favor with Republican megadonors like Charles and David Koch.

Speaking at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics on Monday, Gore noted that Republicans like John McCain and Mitt Romney had acknowledged and taken steps toward solving the issue before it became politicized by the right.

"I don't think it's particularly complicated why they have all cowed into abandoning that position," Gore said. "They will face primary opponents financed by the Koch Brothers, and others who are part of their group, if they even breathe the slightest breath of sympathy for the truth about climate science. It's not really that complicated."

Gore continued: "And of course, Sen. Paul is from a coal state, but even if he were not, anyone who wants to set his or her aspirations on the Republican nomination for the presidency in 2016 already knows that they can't possibly cross the Koch brothers and the others that are part of that group, the large carbon polluters and ideological anti-statists who are really terrified that the government will do anything new, so as Grover Norquist said famously years ago, they want to shrink the government to where it can be drowned in a bathtub."

More total rubbish but I do want to offer thanks for this opportunity to keep presenting the truth.

This is an interview by the founder of "The Weather Channel":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOc33vd83SQ

What a refreshing breath of fresh air as compared to these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqT5LhVPc9Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SfWdDP5v_A

Al Gore, such a shining example to all, well all the idiots anyway.