>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:
Hehe - I hold "Global Warming" up as proof that all the atheists in the sift are - in fact - regularly basing thier world views on faith-based beliefs in things they can't see or prove.


You are conveniently forgetting the crucial difference between "Faith-based" and "Evidence-based" You see, the latter is based on EVIDENCE, the former is shit people have just made up. Read some science on the subject, or at least take a look at the links rougy provided above. The EVIDENCE, not faith, suggests that global warming is true.

To believe something based on evidence is not the same as "having faith" in it, in fact it is in many regards the complete opposite. If we only had a little faith, I could ignore the evidence and believe it'd all work out fine.

>> ^Ryjkyj:
That being said, I believe global warming is very likely a great threat to mankind but I agree with Michael Crichton in the opinion that: "science and politics are a bad mix."



Yeah, fuck that NASA bullshit!!!

I watched that Lou Dobbs episode and this video is out of context.
We do not hear the question and previous comment to which Chad Meyers(CNN Meteorologist in the video) answered.

>> ^Structure:
The Medieval Warming Period, or NAMBLA, was limited to a small region and didn't reach the temperatures we've had in the last 20-30 years.

I don't often laugh-out-loud, literally, but this nambla reference got me
Now, if you could say that comment while impersonating Norm McDonald, it would be comedy gold.

My biggest problem with the meteorologist, is that the comment "the oceans are so big" makes him seem ignorant on what a dramatic change even 1 degree can do - just look at what's happening to all the coral reefs.

Yes, I think humans can survive global warming, just not at the current numbers, and our diets will be much more bland.

Of course we'll all probably blow each other to bits whilst playing a game of global-thermo-nuclear-war - long before the earth becomes inhospitable. I just thought of something, if we launched a nuke into the atmosphere and detonated it there, what would it do to the carbon monoxide? (any physicists on the sift?). No I'm not suggesting that, because of the side effects of a nice big radiation cloud...

>> ^quantumushroom:
Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is a theory (hypothesis). It is an unproven theory. What you do with theories is put them to the test with scientific observations. Let’s see what data points we now have:
1) Average annual temperatures have not surpassed 1998 (NOAA) (University of Alabama)
2) Average annual temperatures are now trending downward since 1998 (NOAA) (University of Alabama)
3) Ocean temperatures have not risen since 2000 when the 3000 Argo buoys were launched. The buoys even show a slight decrease in ocean temperatures
.....etc

Figures quantummushroom would copy and paste his comment, most of his comments sound like they were coming right out of his ass after being written by FOX news.
I knew he couldn't think for himself.

>> ^MycroftHomlz:
God forbid people believe data.


But... what if God is dead?

>> ^brain:
Isn't it interesting how they're always conservative republicans?

Very true.

Given their wonderful predictions on Afghanistan, Iraq, Terrorism, Katrina, Economics, Torture, Freedom and Civil Rights I am wary to believe anything coming from them.

>> ^quantumushroom:
9) The majority of the Antarctic is 8 degrees below “normal” (again, whatever that is)


"Satellite imagery from the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder reveals that a 13,680 square kilometer (5,282 square mile) ice shelf has begun to collapse because of rapid climate change in a fast-warming region of Antarctica.

National Snow and Ice Data Center, March 25, 2008

And....

"Ice growth slows; Arctic still warmer than usual"

National Snow and Ice Data Center, December 8, 2008

>> ^quantumushroom:
19) 31,000 scientist have signed a petition against AGW!


"So what does it take to be included among the 31,000 "experts" on the petition? Well, according to the OISM criteria, any undergraduate science degree will do just fine.

OISM also wants to let you know that 9,021 of the signers hold PhDs. They don't specify what the doctorates are in, but they repeat that figure quite a bit, as if it means something. Since the group was nice enough to list all 31,000 signers, including the dead people, let's take a look at the qualifications of three randomly-selected "climate experts."

• W. Kline Bolton, M.D. is a professor of medicine and Nephrology Division Chief at the University of Virginia. Nephrology deals with the study of the function and diseases of the kidney.
  
• Zhonggang Zeng is one of the 9,000 with a PhD. He is a professor of mathematics at Northeastern Illinois University. His most recent publication is entitled "Computing multiple roots of inexact polynomials."
  
• Hub Hougland is a dentist in Muncie, Indiana. He was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame last year.
  

>> ^quantumushroom:
The Antarctic is not “melting”, it is growing in most places, the sloughing off at the edges is normal as the ice mass grows


"The rate of ice loss in the Arctic is accelerating rapidly, scientists say.

According to data from NASA's QuikSCAT satellite, between 2004 and 2005 the Arctic lost an unprecedented 14 percent of its perennial sea ice (shown in white)—some 280,000 square miles (725,000 square kilometers), or an area the size of Texas."

National Geographic

>> ^quantumushroom:
6) All polar bear pods are stable or growing (NOAA/PBS)


"Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne today announced that he is accepting the recommendation of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dale Hall to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA)."

You are a despicable human being, QM.

You lie on a routine basis.

You represent all that is filthy, lazy, and ugly in mankind.

oops, sometimes I forget to do that

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But no upvote?

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Beware of children playing tag football made me laugh enough to wake up my roomy.

But no upvote?

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Beware of children playing tag football made me laugh enough to wake up my roomy.

dupe
sorry dude
http://www.videosift.com/video/Thunderstorm-timelapse-043-1

and its a shelf cloud for sure, i am not a meteorologist, but that has all the signs of a supercell

I put my vote on the other video too

Fujita scale ≠ wind speed. It is based on damage assessments.

From the Fujita Scale wiki entry:

The Fujita scale (F-Scale), or Fujita-Pearson scale, is a scale for rating tornado intensity, based on the damage tornadoes inflict on human-built structures and vegetation. The official Fujita scale category is determined by meteorologists (and engineers) after a ground and/or aerial damage survey ...
Though each damage level is associated with a wind speed, the Fujita scale is a damage scale, and the wind speeds associated with the damage listed are unverified.