Tierney 'cool' over global warming

SALEM - Environmentally-aware Salem State College students Monday collected a special Valentine's Day gift to U.S. Rep. John F. Tierney in thanks for his stance against global warming.

The students, many of the members of the college's Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MAS-SPIRG) chapter, gathered 206 homemade holiday cards, each signed by students who acknowledge that the congressman is "too cool for global warming." The cards will be fashioned into a single heart-shaped valentine and delivered to the congressman's Peabody office next week.

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"One school of thought" -- quoting -- "one school of thought holds that temperatures at the equator are buffered, staying relatively constant while more northern and southern latitudes heat up." Schools of thought? The debate is over, scientists. Stop thinking! But really, seriously what do the Holocaust deniers believe happened to the snake? I mean, remember it had to be 6 to 8 degrees warmer than it was now just to survive. Researchers now believe -- quoting from the article -- that the climate got even hotter, hastening. Wait a minute. So temperatures have never been warmer than they are today except when they're 6 to 8 degrees warmer and when they're warmer than that. But this one degree of warming that we're dealing with now definitely going to set the Earth on fire. By the way, the 1 degree of warming that we really don't have now because it's been going down in temperature for the last few years.

So why didn't the alleged positive feedbacks kick in and turn the Earth into an uninhabitable fireball?