Dr. Limbaugh's 'Global Warming Is A Hoax' Mantra - - Is The Hoax
Looks like the blue ribbon science panel at Professor Doctor Rush Limbaugh's EIB Center For Talk Radio Misinformation got the climate change/global warming story all wrong: from it's being a hoax, as the good doctor/professor often says, climate change is so real that forests are 'popping up' in the Arctic:
In this part of the Arctic, which could be a bellwether for changes to come elsewhere with greenhouse-driven warming, what might be called pop-up forests are forming. Low tundra shrubs, many of which are willow and alder species, have rapidly grown into small trees over the last 50 years, according to the study, led by scientists from Oxford University and the Arctic Center of the University of Lapland.
The researchers foresee a substantial additional local warming influence from this change in landscapes, with the darker foliage absorbing sunlight that would otherwise be reflected back to space. But the fast-motion shift to forests will likely absorb carbon dioxide, as well.
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Last winter was great! Even though we have no proof that man causes global warming, I hope our climate does warm.
Speaking of which... weren't there glaciers over Wisconsin at one point? So, who was responsible for global warming back then?
So...the problem is that we will have more trees and life that comes with forestation? The earth has been warming for quite some time and much longer than when we industrialized. I suggest getting used to it because we have no say in the matter.
so, RD is claiming that glaciers were caused by a WARMER globe?
Whoah. that's extreme, even for wingnuts.
So...the problem is that we will have more trees and life that comes with forestation?
No. The problem is that the environment will change so much, so fast that many species, including not only all the creatures that we eat but maybe us, will not be able to cope with the new situation. You've heard about the dinosaurs? it's what happened to them. The changes we talk about? They'll actually decrease forestation, because the changes to microclimates and the devastational weather patterns will destroy existing forests, and the new microclimates will take several hundreds of years to support forest growth.
Not to mention that that just a minor change in the global temperature results in massive ice meltoff from the poles, and a commensurate raising of the ocean levels, destroying all those human settlements along the oceans, not to mention eradicating islands.
Other than Republican legislators who have no actual experience, there is no significant scientific dispute of the warming of the globe. Even if you want to quibble about man's influence on that, the warming will result in changes that will stress human civilization in all kinds of entertaining ways, and deciding that trying to ameliorate those changes is not warranted marks you as idiots.
The earth has been warming for quite some time and much longer than when we industrialized
Yep. That is true. it is also true that the change in temperature has accelerated since industrialization, and has skyrocketed in the last few decades. Hence the idea that mankind is having an appreciable, negative influence on the global environment. Are we still arguing about this?
"Even though we have no proof that man causes global warming, I hope our climate does warm"
Yeah, it will be just grrrreat when WI's lakes get eutrophied in the warmer weather!
And let's not forget that Wisconsin's forests rely on deep winter chills to kill off various insect species. With a few more warm winters leading to beetle infestations, the tree die-offs will fill the forests with dead wood waiting for a spark to make life OODLES AND OODLES of FUUUUN!
Yay global warming!
"Even though we have no proof that man causes global warming, I hope our climate does warm"
Yup. Life in Wisconsin will be so much better when we have kudzu and fire ants.
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