Global Warming

2007-2-1 00:19:00

I must mention here (with some local pride) that it looks like another of my predictions may come true.

Just before the Fiesta Bowl I said that if Boise State wins the game they would probably make a movie of it.

I just heard over the local news yesterday that five movie companies have contacted BSU about movie rights.

JJ Quote:

The interesting thing is that global warming caused by human intervention may actually make the ice age a little more palatable.

Dean:

Someone prove to me how 'global warming' is caused by human intervention. This has not being proven and is not demonstrated. The global warming effects are also happening on the sun and other planets. So how can humans be affecting other planets when we don't even live on them.

Amazingly we may be on the same page with this one, or at least close to it.

If you have read my posts the past year or so you know that I do not accept the premise of the global warming activists. I have given many quotes that show that most global warming is not caused by humans.

Now let me explain my statement above. I talk about global warming caused by humans, but there is also global warming caused by nature. About 99 percent of the global temperature changes are caused by nature and not humans. Even so, humans releasing CO2 in the atmosphere does have some effect, even though it is small and it has definitely been proven that CO2 is a greenhouse gas that does have a warming effect. My point in the quote was that perhaps we should be thankful for an extra little warming effect if we are facing a cyclic ice age.

"Next they'll bring out a chart showing a football field. And they'll say, Imagine the composition of the Earth's atmosphere as a football field. Most of the atmosphere is nitrogen. So, starting from the goal line, nitrogen takes you all the way to the seventy-eight yard line. And most of what's left is oxygen. Oxygen takes you to the ninety-nine yard line. Only one yard to go. But most of what remains is the inert gas argon. Argon brings you within three and a half inches of the goal line. That's pretty much the thickness of the chalk stripe, folks. And how much of that remaining three inches is carbon dioxide? One inch. That's how much CO2 we have in our atmosphere. One inch in a hundred yard football field. She paused dramatically, then continued, "Now, ladies and gentlemen of the jury," she said, "you are told that carbon dioxide has increased in the last fifty years. Do you know how much it has increased, on our football field? It has increased by three-eighths of an inch--less than the thickness of a pencil."
From State of Fear, Page 387,
by Michael Crichton