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1. Member
   Matt Balzer

   @MattBalzer

   9:24 AM EDT ⋅ Apr 5, 2018

   Cato Rand (View Comment):

   DrewInWisconsin (View Comment):

   Chuckles (View Comment):

   DrewInWisconsin (View Comment):

   Hey, we broke a nearly 100-year-old record low for this date! And I think we’re going to break those records for the next two days as well. Also, the lowest high temperature on record! Whee!

   Can I have some o’ dat global warming pleez?

   But NOAA still says this has been a very warm, mild winter.

   They always say that. Every winter is the “warmest winter on record!” Every year is the “hottest year on record!” Anyone who challenges this notion is instantly swarmed by a cabal of Warmists, Snopes-lickers, Factoid checkers, and everyone to the left of George W.

   They are fully invested in the notion that climate change goes only one way: hotter. They have been so entirely devoted to this premise that the slightest variation in data that might suggest they’re wrong must be denounced as a plot by Big Oil.

   When they are the record keepers, those records can be changed.

   You don’t understand. Global warming is so yesterday. The new man made global threat is global cooling. Our grandchildren are all going to be buried under glaciers. And it doesn’t really matter if it’s warming or cooling. The point is, all human life as we know it will end unless we give control of our resources and our economy to the UN and a swath our unelected virtue signaling Eurocrats! We’ll fill in the reasons later.

   I was going to write more in agreement, but I realized it’s basically the battle over control of the thermostat on a planetary scale.

2. Inactive
   Mark Wilson

   @MarkWilson

   9:27 AM EDT ⋅ Apr 5, 2018

   Judge Mental (View Comment):
   No one makes the connection that we have done more to eliminate CO2 than other countries, and that that might have something to do with it.

   Sorry to throw cold water on this, but I have never heard anyone claim that CO2 warming is a local phenomenon.  There’s no reason to think the US increasing or reducing its CO2 emissions would affect the temperature in the US more than elsewhere.  The greenhouse mechanism is based on dispersion of the CO2 throughout the atmosphere.

    

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   Umbra of Nex, Fractus

   @UmbraFractus

   9:30 AM EDT ⋅ Apr 5, 2018

   Mark Wilson (View Comment):

   Sorry to throw cold water on this, but I have never heard anyone claim that CO2 warming is a local phenomenon. There’s no reason to think the US increasing or reducing its CO2 emissions would affect the temperature in the US more than elsewhere. The greenhouse mechanism is based on dispersion of the CO2 throughout the atmosphere.

    

   They’ll claim it eventually. Whatever is most effective at gaining greater control.

4. Member
   Judge Mental

   @JudgeMental

   9:37 AM EDT ⋅ Apr 5, 2018

   Mark Wilson (View Comment):

   Judge Mental (View Comment):
   No one makes the connection that we have done more to eliminate CO2 than other countries, and that that might have something to do with it.

   Sorry to throw cold water on this, but I have never heard anyone claim that CO2 warming is a local phenomenon. There’s no reason to think the US increasing or reducing its CO2 emissions would affect the temperature in the US more than elsewhere. The greenhouse mechanism is based on dispersion of the CO2 throughout the atmosphere.

    

   First off, it was basically a troll, saying that if we do what they want, we’ll get an ice age, but seriously, CO2 dispersion is not instantaneous.  Areas that produce more will have a higher concentration, particularly as they continue to produce.

5. Member
   DrewInWisconsin

   @DrewInWisconsin

   10:02 AM EDT ⋅ Apr 5, 2018

   This project would get the Warmists really agitated.

   http://www.plantsneedco2.org

   https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2009/10/07/scientist-carbon-dioxide-doesnt-cause-global-warming

   A noted geologist who coauthored the New York Times bestseller Sugar Busters has turned his attention to convincing Congress that carbon dioxide emissions are good for the Earth and don’t cause global warming. Leighton Steward is on Capitol Hill this week armed with studies and his book Fire, Ice and Paradise in a bid to show senators working on the energy bill that the carbon dioxide cap-and-trade scheme could actually hurt the environment by reducing CO2 levels.

   “I’m trying to kill the whole thing,” he says. “We are tilting at windmills.” He is meeting with several GOP lawmakers and has plans to meet with some Democrats later this week.

   Much of the global warming debate has focused on reducing CO2 emissions because it is thought that the greenhouse gas produced mostly from fossil fuels is warming the planet. But Steward, who once believed CO2 caused global warming, is trying to fight that with a mountain of studies and scientific evidence that suggest CO2 is not the cause for warming. What’s more, he says CO2 levels are so low that more, not less, is needed to sustain and expand plant growth.

   Trying to debunk theories that higher CO2 levels cause warming, he cites studies that show CO2 levels following temperature spikes, prompting him to back other scientists who say that global warming is caused by solar activity.

   In taking on lawmakers pushing for a cap-and-trade plan to deal with emissions, Steward tells Whispers that he’s worried that the legislation will result in huge and unneeded taxes. Worse, if CO2 levels are cut, he warns, food production will slow because plants grown at higher CO2 levels make larger fruit and vegetables and also use less water. He also said that higher CO2 levels are not harmful to humans. As an example, he said that Earth’s atmosphere currently has about 338 parts per million of CO2 and that in Navy subs, the danger level for carbon dioxide isn’t reached until the air has 8,000 parts per million of CO2.

6. Inactive
   Mark Wilson

   @MarkWilson

   11:12 AM EDT ⋅ Apr 5, 2018

   Judge Mental (View Comment):

   Mark Wilson (View Comment):

   Judge Mental (View Comment):
   No one makes the connection that we have done more to eliminate CO2 than other countries, and that that might have something to do with it.

   Sorry to throw cold water on this, but I have never heard anyone claim that CO2 warming is a local phenomenon. There’s no reason to think the US increasing or reducing its CO2 emissions would affect the temperature in the US more than elsewhere. The greenhouse mechanism is based on dispersion of the CO2 throughout the atmosphere.

   First off, it was basically a troll, saying that if we do what they want, we’ll get an ice age, but seriously, CO2 dispersion is not instantaneous. Areas that produce more will have a higher concentration, particularly as they continue to produce.

   Not much literature online about it, but this one study says high local CO2 concentration hardly matters even at the city level.  Hard to imagine it would be even approach that strength at the national level.

   Past research has demonstrated that the existence of a pronounced urban heat island effect for the Phoenix metropolitan area, as well as an equally pronounced urban atmospheric CO2 dome across the city. Generally, the higher temperatures coincide in time and space with higher values of atmospheric CO2; given the literature linking higher temperatures to higher levels of CO2, it is tempting to declare a strong causal relationship between these two parameters, given the situation in Phoenix.

   To better understand the physical linkage between the higher temperalares and higher CO2 concentrations, we use a 92-layer nine-band terrestrial radiative flux model to simulate the effects of an urban CO2 dome on atmospheric and surface heating. The results indicate that the effect of the CO2 dome on Phoenix metropolitan area temperatures is minimal, resulting in surface temperatures that exceed the control simulation by only 0.12°C.
    

7. Member
   Hartmann von Aue

   @HartmannvonAue

   11:46 PM EDT ⋅ Apr 5, 2018

   Jud

   When they are the record keepers, those records can be changed.

   The latest explanation I saw included a map that showed that while the U.S. is colder than normal, everywhere else it is way warmer than normal, giving an average of warmer than normal. No one makes the connection that we have done more to eliminate CO2 than other countries, and that that might have something to do with it. If the entire world follows their prescriptions, maybe we get an ice age.

   I’d like to see their map for Europe  2017-18 so I can laugh at it. We live in the south of Germany and it has been significantly colder than average right up until ….ten minutes ago. 

8. Coolidge
   OccupantCDN

   @OccupantCDN

   5:42 PM EDT ⋅ Apr 6, 2018

   https://globalnews.ca/news/4128512/warmer-weather-to-return-to-calgary-monday/

   Warmer weather returns on Monday. This is a headline they should just keep as a macro…

9. Coolidge
   OccupantCDN

   @OccupantCDN

   7:26 PM EDT ⋅ Apr 21, 2018

   

    

   My house this morning. I realized that is only 61 days to the summer solstice today, and there is still significant snow on the ground. No matter how you cut it, summer will be short.

   I also saw news stories, that farmer’s about a month behind in their planting operations. No wonder, when I drove in the country earlier this week, I was surprised to see nearly all of the farm land was still covered in snow.

   Com’on – we wing nuts cant gin up a 200 post thread on climate skepticism? For Shame!

10. Inactive
    Umbra of Nex, Fractus

    @UmbraFractus

    7:35 PM EDT ⋅ Apr 21, 2018

    OccupantCDN (View Comment):

    

     

    My house this morning. I realized that is only 61 days to the summer solstice today, and there is still significant snow on the ground. No matter how you cut it, summer will be short.

    I also saw news stories, that farmer’s about a month behind in their planting operations. No wonder, when I drove in the country earlier this week, I was surprised to see nearly all of the farm land was still covered in snow.

    Com’on – we wing nuts cant gin up a 200 post thread on climate skepticism? For Shame!

    No! Don’t you rubes get it?! This just proves how bad Global Cooling Global Warming Climate Change really is! This wouldn’t be happening if that evil Trump hadn’t pulled out of the Paris treaty. We have to do something about Global Cooling Global Warming Climate Change NOW!

11. Member
    Western Chauvinist

    @WesternChauvinist

    

    7:52 PM EDT ⋅ Apr 21, 2018

    We had three inches over night last night. It’s not that uncommon for Colorado (March and April are our snowiest months). And, we desperately need the moisture, so I’m not complaining.

    However, I’d still like to slug the climate hysterics. Just because.

12. Inactive
    Randy Webster

    @RandyWebster

    10:07 PM EDT ⋅ Apr 21, 2018

    Western Chauvinist (View Comment):

    We had three inches over night last night. It’s not that uncommon for Colorado (March and April are our snowiest months). And, we desperately need the moisture, so I’m not complaining.

    However, I’d still like to slug the climate hysterics. Just because.

    That sounds like the old “If you see a Bulgarian on the street, beat him.  He’ll know why.”

13. Thatcher
    Clavius

    @Clavius

    10:30 PM EDT ⋅ Apr 21, 2018

    Western Chauvinist (View Comment):

    We had three inches over night last night. It’s not that uncommon for Colorado (March and April are our snowiest months). And, we desperately need the moisture, so I’m not complaining.

    However, I’d still like to slug the climate hysterics. Just because.

    I do also hate hysteria in the pursuit of political control.  Which is what the program is about.  Many other supporters are just useful idiots.