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gunnut · 10-17-2006, 02:37 AM

I watched An Inconvenient Truth on the plane back from China. Now I'm convinced more than ever before that global warming is a hoax.

More than 90% of the data presented by Al in the movie was taken after 1940, with a great majority of them after 1970.

If I take a random sample of recorded earth temperature, let's say we have a time machine and can go back in time, I can formulate my data to say anything I want. I can pick from the year 940 to 990 and say the earth will burn up in the year 1300, if the current trend continues. Or I can take a 50 year sample from the year 1780 to 1830, and say the earth will freeze in a few hundred years and the next ice age will be upon us.

Here's an unrelated question: whatever happed to that hole in the ozone layer? It was all the rage in the late 80s and the early 90s. Everyone thought the hole will get bigger and bigger and eventually the ultraviolet ray from the sun will hit the earth surface unimpeded and give us all skin cancer. I don't see that cult any more. Do you? Perhaps they changed the "hole in the ozone layer" to "global warming" and the "climate change?"

My question for the "hole in the ozone layer" cult is how do they know that hole hasn't always been there? Did they send up a balloon or a weather satellite in the year 738 to find it was much smaller than present day?

10-17-2006, 02:37 AM	#342 (permalink)
gunnut *Senior Contributor* Join Date: 01-27-06 Location: DPRK, Democratik People's Republik of Kalifornia Posts: 9,882 Country:	I watched An Inconvenient Truth on the plane back from China. Now I'm convinced more than ever before that global warming is a hoax. More than 90% of the data presented by Al in the movie was taken after 1940, with a great majority of them after 1970. If I take a random sample of recorded earth temperature, let's say we have a time machine and can go back in time, I can formulate my data to say anything I want. I can pick from the year 940 to 990 and say the earth will burn up in the year 1300, if the current trend continues. Or I can take a 50 year sample from the year 1780 to 1830, and say the earth will freeze in a few hundred years and the next ice age will be upon us. Here's an unrelated question: whatever happed to that hole in the ozone layer? It was all the rage in the late 80s and the early 90s. Everyone thought the hole will get bigger and bigger and eventually the ultraviolet ray from the sun will hit the earth surface unimpeded and give us all skin cancer. I don't see that cult any more. Do you? Perhaps they changed the "hole in the ozone layer" to "global warming" and the "climate change?" My question for the "hole in the ozone layer" cult is how do they know that hole hasn't always been there? Did they send up a balloon or a weather satellite in the year 738 to find it was much smaller than present day? __________________ "Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.