Global Warming Melts Dreams of a White X-MAS

[cosmo]

The nuts are at it, yet again.... This is ruled by a totalitarian mindset...



Global Warming Melts Dreams of a White Christmas, Study Alleges
By Marc Morano
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
December 15, 2004

Buenos Aires, Argentina (CNSNews.com) - The British government released a new climate analysis this week alleging that white Christmases in England will be just a memory unless global warming is halted.

According to an analysis by British Environment Minister Elliot Morley, England is 65 percent less likely to have a white Christmas in the year 2050 due to the effects of global warming.

Coastal areas of England will be 90 percent less likely to see any snow by the year 2080. Morely is attending the UN climate summit in Buenos Aires.

Norman Baker, the British Parliament's Liberal Democrat environment spokesman, summed up the analysis this way: "Britons will soon be left with only dreams of a white Christmas, as the chances of it actually happening become more remote."

Despite the fact that London has experienced only six white Christmases in the past 45 years, Baker said any future lack of snow could be blamed on only one factor. "Global warming is the main reason for this shift in seasonal weather and is responsible for changing the world as we know it," Baker said.

But William O'Keefe of the Washington-based George Marshall Institute said no one should stop dreaming of a white Christmas - "just like the ones they used to know" -- based on the new British study.

"The 65 percent probability that white Christmases will disappear in London is one hundred percent wrong," O'Keefe told CNSNews.com. The Marshall Institute, which "encourages the use of sound science in making public policy," takes a skeptical view of alarmist global warming.

"The British analysis is a compilation of fiction. There is no science and no scientific basis for those projections," said O'Keefe, who is attending the U.N. summit here.

"They (the projections) are pure speculation, which get credibility because they are run through computer models that have never been validated scientifically," O'Keefe explained.

But Britain's Baker believes the analysis should prompt a call to action on climate change.

"It is not only Christmas that will be affected. In the New Year we can expect more of the extreme weather, floods and gales suffered across the Continent this year. This is a global issue, but the government needs to make reducing greenhouse gases one of its top New Year's resolutions," Baker said.

But O'Keefe noted that many alarmist climate-change claims have proven contradictory.

"The world has gone through periods over hundreds of thousands of years and million of years where it's been warmer, it's been colder; and it was only a few decades ago that the scientists who are now telling us we are going to lose a white Christmas were telling us we were going into an ice age and there would be white Christmases 365 days a year," he said.

"When people sing Bing Crosby's song in years ahead, they will still experience the beauty of a white Christmas," O'Keefe predicted, referring to the classic Christmas song.

[Yao]

Haven't seen a white christmas in 10 years...who cares about global warming. Did make a human sized dick out of snow last year though, now I think back. But that was in january...

Global warming is a problem, but maybe not because WE caused it, but because it's simply there. It sure is a problem for my country, b'cuz if temperatures rise one degree, Holland will flood, heheh. Picture me runnin' uphill with my records & deck in my arms...

[Jenks]

Global warming is the biggest load of bullshit since the jesus immaculate conception story.

[Yao]

Somebody must have poled that women at some point in time, no? She was supposed to be a whore or something, too...and you don't tell me Joseph didn't know what else to do with his willy other than taking a leak!

[Jenks]

^yep. the sad thing is, there are actually live people walking the earth that believe that rubbish.

[Garrick]

Did make a human sized dick out of snow last year ...

excuse me, sir?

[Civic_Zen]

How can people not see the scare tactics in this?? Scientists disagree on global warming more then most every thing else in the world.

[Yao]

Did make a human sized dick out of snow last year ...

excuse me, sir?

Just like I said...did it on the train platform with a friend of mine

The looks on the faces of people in trains arriving...unbeatable.

[Garrick]

lol.... cheers!

[Yao]

Hell yeah.

[digitalghost10]

Hey, anti-christian sentiments aside, Global Warming is just a great experiment in advanced brainwashing about a system we can only hope to predicate accurately beyond a few days let alone guess what effect CO2s are going to have on it in 50 or 100 years. Tell me the Sun's Core will expire in about 10 billion years, that's more interestingto me than global warming, and I think it's more important. Let's do something about that....

[Yao]

Put some ice on it.

[cosmo]

How we can affect the rising and falling of temperatures is beyond me, or anyone on this earth. It's the politics of fear. People keep screaming about the oil spills throughout the world. Oil seeps through the earths surface, and the oceans eat it up before it even reaches the surface.

Just 30 years ago the same groups were screaming that the Earth is cooling, and is entering an ice age.

[toasty]

People keep screaming about the oil spills throughout the world. Oil seeps through the earths surface, and the oceans eat it up before it even reaches the surface.

Global warming is utter bullshit, agreed, but I don't put oil spills in the same group. There's a difference, I think, between the normal movement of naturally-present oil as a result of geologic processes, and errantly dumping thousands and thousands of gallons of it -- which may or may not have been through processing of some sort -- on one spot.

Perhaps in the overall geologic picture, an oil spill like the Exxon Valdez represents a tiny hiccup in the development of the planet, but there were definitely ecological effects of that spill that, although insignificant in the greater scheme of things, we will notice in our lifetime in that region. I happen to think our little ball of rock is pretty hearty and will bounce back from whatever we throw at it when you're looking at it in terms of thousands and thousands of years. As for us humans and the other critters running around here, we are a bit more fragile and ought not start dumping oil all over the place because we think the planet can take it.

Earthquakes demonstrate the point, I think. To the earth, an earthquake is equivalent to us rearranging our living room. To us, it can be catastrophic. Just because the earth can handle it doesn't mean that its residents can.