Global Warming Assumptions

The Administrator for NASA, Michael Griffin, recently was interviewed by NPR. The following quote makes more sense than all of the hot air spewed by the self ordained high priest of the new religion of Global Warming, AlGore, about and around this subject in the last 2 years. Go to the NPR website to listen to the whole interview.
Griffin tells it like it is in a non-political way.

Steve Inskeep (NPR):
Do you have any doubt that this is a problem that mankind has to wrestle with?

NASA administrator Michael Griffin:
I have no doubt that … a trend of global warming exists. I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with. To assume that it is a problem is to assume that the state of Earth's climate today is the optimal climate, the best climate that we could have or ever have had and that we need to take steps to make sure that it doesn't change. First of all, I don't think it's within the power of human beings to assure that the climate does not change, as millions of years of history have shown. And second of all, I guess I would ask which human beings — where and when — are to be accorded the privilege of deciding that this particular climate that we have right here today, right now is the best climate for all other human beings. I think that's a rather arrogant position for people to take.

Nuclear Renaissance

Canada sees possible nuclear renaissance
OTTAWA (Reuters) - "Concern over global warming has breathed new life into Canada's nuclear industry, which is eyeing the possibility of its first new plants in the country in a quarter century, industry officials said on Thursday."The climate change driver is so compelling a case that the nuclear file becomes a critical part of the solution," Duncan Hawthorne, chairman of the Canadian Nuclear Association and chief executive of Bruce Power, told Reuters...
...its attraction in terms of the climate change debate is that it emits none of the greenhouse gases that are blamed for global warming."

A justification to ramp up the expansion of the nuclear industry is probably the best thing that the "Global Warming evangelicals" have generated. The Canadians are doing the right thing by assuring that their power needs can be met even though the "attraction" of the "greenhouse gas" reasoning they espouse is politically correct BS.

Global Warming strikes the Midwest

Al Gore Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

We got your prize right HERE, Al...

Solar Activity, Methane and Mahmoud

Mankind cannot be blamed for global warming, or cooling. The sun and the earth itself are the major causes of changes in climate. What we do is insignificant in the grand scheme of historical climatology.

Some recent examples of such natural phenomenon include:

MOUNT ST. HELENS -- "A magnitude 3.6 earthquake shook Mount St. Helens July 18, 2006, one of the largest earthquakes recorded during the ongoing eruption, the U.S. Geological Survey said."
The May 18, 1980, eruption, killed 57 people and blasted about 1,300 feet off the 9,677-foot peak.

Speaking of volcanos, terrorist leader Mahmoud "Monkey" Ahmadinejad made some comparisons with current events.
Some excerpts from an address given by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which aired on the Iranian News Channel on July 18, 2006.
They should know that the volcano of rage of the peoples of the region is boiling.
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I'm telling you… If this volcano erupts - and we are on the brink of eruption... and if this ocean rages, its waves will not be limited to the region.

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Larry Elder says that Civilization is at stake. He is right.
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Solar Activity is thought to cause climate changes so vast that man barely registers a blip.
"In light of these real-world-based observations, plus the multitude of studies that indicate most climate changes of the past were clearly associated with changes in solar activity (see Solar Effects in our Subject Index), the case for anthropogenic CO2 emissions playing anything more than a minor role in contemporary global warming would appear to be fading fast."
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July 23, 2006
Gas escaping from ocean floor may drive global warming
Researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara observe methane blast from ocean floor...

I was all set to believe AlGore's story of how civilization is the cause of all bad karma, but I think a lot more research is in order first.