bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Global-warming-climate-change-Christopher-Monckton/2014/09/09/id/593471/?ns_mail_uid=12337155&ns_mail_job=1585247_09092014&s=al&dkt_nbr=ghbwalgc

Whatever will the followers of Al B(G)ore think. :hunf:

Fat Gregory Loc: Southern New Jersey

"Al more Kool Aid ... Please" is my guess!

djenrette Loc: Philadelphia

If you don't like the news you get, don't worry! Shop around and you will surely find someone who agrees with you. And what could be more convincing?

bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL

:lol: :lol: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Waterfall9

People prefer to believe what they want to believe. Global warming is an unfortunately poor choice of words. I would remind folks that burning stored energy does release a lot of CO2. A gallon of gas burned for example releases 5 pounds of carbon dioxide. Think a five pound bag of charcoal for your grill or dumped out on the road. Industry has increased the warmth of the earths atmosphere by a measurable probability. More importantly carbon dioxide is acidifying the ocean at a disturbing rate, which may become the more immediate crisis. The temperature of the atmosphere and earth's surface has cycled regularly and there is evidence that the sun is cycling us into a cooling period which will make extra carbon in the atmosphere look like a good deal until the next warming cycle comes raging back. Very serious scientists are struggling to find answers to complex events. Only the uneducated are sure that an individual observation is proof of what they prefer to believe. Most of us buy insurance because we are not sure of the future and we might be wrong. Getting an education is a very unsettling process.

Twardlow Loc: Arkansas

Wrong....

Keenan Loc: Central Coast California

Newmax? LOL! You think that is a credible source?

Keenan Loc: Central Coast California

The "no warming for 18 years" myth has been debunked over and over again.

New Study Provides More Evidence That Global Warming ‘Pause’ Is A Myth
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/08/25/3475168/global-warming-atlantic/

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/OceanHeat.jpg

Is Atlantic holding Earth's missing heat?
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6199/860.summary?rss=1

BigWahoo Loc: Kentucky

Some other claims by Snake Oil Salesman 'Lord" Monckton;

""Monckton claimed that he has developed a cure for Graves’ Disease, AIDS, Multiple Schlerosis, the flu, and the common cold. This is no joke–he actually filed applications to patent a “therapeutic treatment” in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013. Bluegrue speculates that Monckton is likely filing his applications and then letting them lapse after a year without paying the fees necessary to have the Patents Office take the process forward. That way, he can claim he has filed for a patent, but never has to have the Patent Office determine whether his “therapeutic treatment” is patentable (or pay any fees). ""

"" Monckton claimed to be a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Al Gore and the IPCC because he supposedly sent the IPCC a letter pointing out something that needed to be corrected in a draft report. At one point he said the claim to be a Nobel laureate was all a joke, but it continued to be posted by Monckton in his bio at the Science and Public Policy Institute until early 2012, and the sorts of people who believe Monckton have often repeated the claim with a straight face. (This brings up an important question. On whom was Monckton playing the joke?)""

"" Monckton represented himself to members of the U.S. Congress as a member of the U.K. House of Lords (the upper house of Parliament.) When people started pointing out that he doesn’t appear on the official list of members, however, he started saying that he is a member “without a seat or vote.” When queried, the House of Lords responded that there is no such thing as a member without a seat or vote, and Lord Monckton had never been a member because he inherited his title (Viscount) in 2006, after all but 92 hereditary peers had been barred from membership in the House of Lords since 1999.""

BigWahoo Loc: Kentucky

No Kool-Aid for me;

"Lord" (not) Monckton "claims to be a climate scientist when he is not (nine of his publications on the topic come from his own think tank, while the tenth is from the letters section of a journal. He does not have a peer-reviewed publication in any scientific journal on any topic, let alone on climate science"

" Monckton’s only qualifications are in classics hence all the pretentious Latin in his presentation and journalism"

Waterfall9

Thanks for the update and research. How many people just accepted his statement because it is what they wanted to hear?

BigWahoo Loc: Kentucky

Too many people. Including 'news' people and some politicians.

When a so called expert says they have data that supports what you would like to be true; its very easy to blindly accept what they say.