• Fox News reporter: Temperature ‘hasn’t changed much since the Ice Age’
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[url]http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/27/fox-news-reporter-temperature-hasnt-changed-much-since-the-ice-age/[/url] [quote] Fox Business reporter Tracy Byrnes says that climate change is overblown because the temperature of the Earth “basically hasn’t changed much since the Ice Age.” During his Tuesday show on the Fox Business Network, habitual climate-change denier Stuart Varney [URL="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304636404577291352882984274.html"]pointed to an op-ed[/URL] by Princeton Professor William Happer as evidence of another “nail in the coffin of global warming hysteria.” “CO2 is not a pollutant,” Happer wrote. “Life on earth flourished for hundreds of millions of years at much higher CO2 levels than we see today. Increasing CO2 levels will be a net benefit because cultivated plants grow better and are more resistant to drought at higher CO2 levels, and because warming and other supposedly harmful effects of CO2 have been greatly exaggerated. Nations with affordable energy from fossil fuels are more prosperous and healthy than those without.” “We’re not in global warming,” Fox Business host David Asman agreed. “That has to be emphasized, screamed out at the top over everybody’s lungs. That’s why they changed the rhetoric from global warming to climate change. Because even the folks that advocated that we are in global warming realize that it hasn’t been that way.” “The temperature basically hasn’t changed much since the Ice Age,” Byrnes announced. “But this notion that we’re now getting to a point where carbon dioxide is bad, I mean, I think these guys have pretty much fallen over the cliff.” “Sun spots have much more to do with the temperature on the Earth than CO2,” Asman insisted. “That’s what scientists are beginning to understand.” Temperatures in Antarctica were around 50°F cooler than in modern times when the most recent Ice Age peaked about 20,000 years ago, [URL="http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/bibliography/related_files/jrt1001.pdf"]according to [I]Paleoceanography[/I][/URL]. Scientists on Monday [URL="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=global-warming-close-to-becoming-ir"]warned[/URL] that the world was near a tipping point when global warming would become irreversible. “This is the critical decade,” Australian National University’s Climate Change Institute executive director Will Steffen explained. “If we don’t get the curves turned around this decade we will cross those lines.”[/quote] [media]http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201203270007[/media] [editline]28th March 2012[/editline] The second URL is a video of her saying it. I guess Facepunch doesn't support the video type.
First one to make a Megyn Kelly joke wins.
It's Fox. What did you expect?
[QUOTE]Nations with affordable energy from fossil fuels are more prosperous and healthy than those without.[/QUOTE] Yes Venezuela is the best country in the world and Norway's the worst.
You know, technically we're not out of the ice age yet.
[QUOTE=Rents;35330502]You know, technically we're not out of the ice age yet.[/QUOTE] :tinfoil:
[QUOTE=Rents;35330502]You know, technically we're not out of the ice age yet.[/QUOTE] It's March and it's 22 Degrees Celsius where I am, if we're still in an Ice Age it's a pretty shitty one :v:
[QUOTE=Rents;35330502]You know, technically we're not out of the ice age yet.[/QUOTE] Uh, no, we are on way to the next one? (which could probably still be thousands of years far from now) [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Ice_Age_Temperature.png[/img]
Wait, so suddenly Earth isn't only 6000 years old? :v:
[QUOTE=Joazzz;35330824]Wait, so suddenly Earth isn't only 6000 years old? :v:[/QUOTE] You must not take it too seriously, some people even have the balls to say it isn't flat, hahaha.
I love the part where the business reporter decided to try and be a scientist. So cute of her.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;35330806]Uh, no, we are on way to the next one? (which could probably still be thousands of years far from now) [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Ice_Age_Temperature.png[/img][/QUOTE] I've heard that as long as both poles are covered in ice we're technically in an ice age.
[QUOTE=CatFodder;35330963]I've heard that as long as both poles are covered in ice we're technically in an ice age.[/QUOTE] Chill
[quote]That’s why they changed the rhetoric from global warming to climate change. Because even the folks that advocated that we are in global warming realize that it hasn’t been that way.”[/quote] It's [B]always[/B] been known as (anthropogenic) climate change. "Global warming" is a term entirely made up by the media.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;35330806]Uh, no, we are on way to the next one? (which could probably still be thousands of years far from now)[/QUOTE] As long as there's ice sheets covering places like Greenland we're in an ice age.
[QUOTE=Rents;35331116]As long as there's ice sheets covering places like Greenland we're in an ice age.[/QUOTE] Okay, didn't know that. Thanks.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;35330806]Uh, no, we are on way to the next one? (which could probably still be thousands of years far from now) [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Ice_Age_Temperature.png[/img][/QUOTE] [QUOTE=shakadamus;35330766]It's March and it's 22 Degrees Celsius where I am, if we're still in an Ice Age it's a pretty shitty one :v:[/QUOTE] Ice ages consist of glacial periods and interglacial periods. Glacial periods are when the temperatures drop and glaciers start expanding, with interglacial being the periods [i]within[/i] an ice age, where temperatures rise. We are in an interglacial period, so yes, we are still in an ice age.
If we look at it in a relative way they're sort of correct. In universal terms the world being hotter would mean the air instantly explodes and everything is vaporised. That's... that's what they mean, right?
[QUOTE=Chrille;35331154]Ice ages consist of glacial periods and interglacial periods. Glacial periods are when the temperatures drop and glaciers start expanding, with interglacial being the periods [i]within[/i] an ice age, where temperatures rise. We are in an interglacial period, so yes, we are still in an ice age.[/QUOTE] I am being inexplicably dumb right now but, how does it look like where there ISN'T an ice age, then?
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;35331186]I am being inexplicably dumb right now but, how does it look like where there ISN'T an ice age, then?[/QUOTE] Well, there's no ice on the poles when it's not an ice age.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;35331186]I am being inexplicably dumb right now but, how does it look like where there ISN'T an ice age, then?[/QUOTE] Average temperature is above 0 degrees Celsius in polar regions and no glaciers anywhere. Something along those lines.
[QUOTE=Hidole555;35330329]First one to make a Megyn Kelly joke wins.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Chrille;35331342]Average temperature is above 0 degrees Celsius in polar regions and no glaciers anywhere. Something along those lines.[/QUOTE] so basically, earth has never been out of an ice age? I've personally never learned of a time when earth lacked ice.
Global warming or not, caused by humans and industrialism or not, ultimately the Earth will evaporate.
[QUOTE=Zah;35342659]so basically, earth has never been out of an ice age? I've personally never learned of a time when earth lacked ice.[/QUOTE] I didn't say there was no ice. I said there was no glaciers. You need to go a couple of million years back.
The atmosphere keeps the water here though, unless it would pop like a bubble, the water is still there. (Or if you mean the point where the sun is out of Hydrogen and continues on Helium, which will cause the sun to expand so much that it will most likely swallow the Earth, in a billion years or so, then nevermind) [editline]29th March 2012[/editline] @bat-shit
Fox News makes the Onion look serious
lolwut? Even if you disagree with makind causing it you can't argue that shit's getting hotter. More proof, as if it was required, that Fox is run by howler monkeys.
[QUOTE=mac338;35330447]Yes Venezuela is the best country in the world and Norway's the worst.[/QUOTE] I can confirm this.
So lets disregard that our beaches here have been disappearing due to the rising temperatures melting the ice caps making the water come to us and the FUCKING HEAT we have here ever since the START OF THE YEAR!
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