http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/02/27/kerry-will-debate/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:42:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/02/27/kerry-will-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-123961 Steve Zanetis Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:28:40 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/02/27/kerry-will-debate/#comment-123961 The trouble with quick research is that one doesn't always get the whole picture. It's like tossing a quarter ten times. It lands 8 times heads up and 2 tails up. So you determine that tails is the heaviest side of the coin. Trouble is this quick study is not thorough enough to render an accuate conclusion. It was a random cycle, not a continuously predictable event. Global warming is continuous, somewhat predictable, and complicated. What is indisputable is that CO2 levels, the ppm (parts per million) of CO2, have soared in the last fifty years. So we have to study how CO2, plus other gases such as methane, are affecting our climate, if they have at all. Turns out, so far, that we may be in a natural warming cycle, but that we may also be contributing to the warming trend with greenhous gases. Also, the new, higher Co2 levels will increase the rate of Co2 output via new bacterial activity, arctic amplification, and many other known and unknown ways. In other words, global warming will itself accelerate the rate of global warming and we are probably helping with the acceleration of the process. The results could be catastrohpic for the human race. George Will, of all people, I would think would want to do an in-depth study of climate change before commenting on it. It's only by knowing the various, wide-ranging causes and affects that one can come to any sound conclusion. The trouble with quick research is that one doesn’t always get the whole picture. It’s like tossing a quarter ten times. It lands 8 times heads up and 2 tails up. So you determine that tails is the heaviest side of the coin. Trouble is this quick study is not thorough enough to render an accuate conclusion. It was a random cycle, not a continuously predictable event. Global warming is continuous, somewhat predictable, and complicated. What is indisputable is that CO2 levels, the ppm (parts per million) of CO2, have soared in the last fifty years. So we have to study how CO2, plus other gases such as methane, are affecting our climate, if they have at all. Turns out, so far, that we may be in a natural warming cycle, but that we may also be contributing to the warming trend with greenhous gases. Also, the new, higher Co2 levels will increase the rate of Co2 output via new bacterial activity, arctic amplification, and many other known and unknown ways. In other words, global warming will itself accelerate the rate of global warming and we are probably helping with the acceleration of the process. The results could be catastrohpic for the human race. George Will, of all people, I would think would want to do an in-depth study of climate change before commenting on it. It’s only by knowing the various, wide-ranging causes and affects that one can come to any sound conclusion.

]]> http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/02/27/kerry-will-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-117467 John B Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:23:04 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/02/27/kerry-will-debate/#comment-117467 Doesn't anyone remember that Cassandra's prophecies came true? Doesn’t anyone remember that Cassandra’s prophecies came true?

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