Jay Hancock's blog: What to say to a global warming skeptic?

people a lot smarter than I am also believe that global temperatures are indeed rising and are connected to the CO2 increase, and I’m prepared to take their word for it. If you want a cite go to the 4th IPCC report, which I’m sure you already have. Given the weight of evidence and opinion, the onus is on skeptics to falsify the proposition that humans are causing global warming. And they haven’t done it.

Old growth trees in WV are record keepers for climate researchers - WVPubcast.org

All of these samples have allowed Hessl and the team of researchers to create a record of climate history for this region that dates back to the year 500 CE (Common Era).

"This is incredibly valuable because we know that climate changes and it has not been stable during the last 2000 years. We had the Little Ice Age which was a cold and probably, based on our data, dry period in the Eastern U.S. and then the Medieval warm period which was probably warmer and wetter and so these kinds of records can help us understand how variable climate in the Eastern U.S. might be given it's natural regime," Hessl said.
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So far, the research shows the Eastern Red Cedars have been growing much faster during the past two hundred years.

IncanDissent « LewRockwell.com Blog

And folks – please don’t write me and tell me that incandescent bulbs haven’t been banned. The law, indeed, is “technology neutral” in that it sets particular standards for bulbs that cannot be met with traditional incandescent technology. However, is it so difficult to see that when government sets impossible standards to meet that will result in the phase-out (manufacturing and importing) of current products in favor of newer products that benefit certain manufacturers, industries, and special interests, this is a totalitarian, lifestyle decree in the same vein as a full-force, explicit ban on the product? Why is implicitly peddled “soft fascism” somehow kindler and gentler than explicit, acknowledged totalitarian decrees? You can put all of the Chanel No. 5 that you want on a pile of cowplop, but beneath the perfumed surface lies the very same pile of putrid dung.

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I wish climate change would tweet a picture of its dick to someone. Then maybe it could get some attention.