Posts by villabolo

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sigh The heartbreak of early onset Algorezheimer's Disease.

by Nathan Natas in

jw
friends

oh al, we hardly knew ye!.

al gore: blizzard of 2011 may be so fierce because of global warmingfeb 2, 2011 3:05 pm - see: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/02/al-gore-blizzard-of-2011-may-be-so-fierce-because-of-global-war/?icid=main%7chtmlws-main-n%7cdl2%7csec3_lnk1%7c198858somebody put a cork in his piehole, please!.

villabolo

Liberty83:

And what does any of what you said have to do with CO2 in the atmosphere? Are we to simultaneously assume that a) CO2 is unable to diffuse at some relatively even level throughout the entire atmosphere in the same way that any soluble compound will do in a fluid, and b) that even though it is unable to diffuse throughout the atmosphere, it somehow travels very, very far from its source of origin?

Diffusion obviously happens but is totally irrelevant to why Global Warming has concentrated in the Arctic. It used to be 3-5 degrees Fahrenheit higher than average up there. Now, that is escalating for reasons that does not have to do with more Carbon Dioxide anywhere but has to do with the change in color from white ice (Which reflects 80-90% of sunlight) to dark blue open waters, (Which absorbs 80% of sunlight).

And even then, of what relevance is the fact that the arctic is "warmer than normal"? The arctic temps are still WELL below the freezing point of water...

I indicated a chain of causation in which a shrinking ice cap; which was keeping temnperatures colder than what they would otherwise be because of the ice reflecting sunlight; is exposing more and more dark blue ocean water which absorbs sunlight -> getting warmer -> melting even more ice. The freshly exposed waters can get up to 6F warmer in summer

This causes the waters at the edge of the Arctic to keep from freezing (completely) during winter and instead they release heat up into the air (Warm air rises, cold air sinks).

When the warmer than usual air rises, it pushes the frigid polar air above it to the only place it can go. Southwards. Warmer water also evaporates more releasing more humidity into the air. This increase in humidity turns into more precipitation, whether it be snow or rain.

The whole world has been getting more humid for years because of the increase in warmth in all oceans (About 1F in non Arctic seas) This has been giving us more intense rains not just due to the increase humidity but because warmer air gives more energy to storms. The recent floods in Australia and Brazil were preceeded by higher sea temperatures right next to those countries.

Villabolo

86

sigh The heartbreak of early onset Algorezheimer's Disease.

by Nathan Natas in

jw
friends

oh al, we hardly knew ye!.

al gore: blizzard of 2011 may be so fierce because of global warmingfeb 2, 2011 3:05 pm - see: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/02/al-gore-blizzard-of-2011-may-be-so-fierce-because-of-global-war/?icid=main%7chtmlws-main-n%7cdl2%7csec3_lnk1%7c198858somebody put a cork in his piehole, please!.

villabolo

Liberty83:

"Villabolo, where is that image from? Is it a compilation of data from weather stations, or from satelites? Satelite data tends to be much more accurate because there aren't the extensive coverage problems that one finds with weather stations."

Liberty83, The anomaly image that I showed came from NASA and I believe is based on a composite of both since it covers a time period before 1979 when the first full year reports started coming in from satellites.

The image below comes from NSIDC and is satellite based.

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2011/010511.html

The temperature chart below is strictly satellite based as well and it indicates the stepwise increase in Global Warming. It's data is processed by Roy Spencer from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Ironically, Spencer is a denier of man made Global Warming and still wants to believe that things will cool down in spite of what his own temperature charts indicate.

I wrote an article which got published on Skeptical Science using his charts alone to expose the fallacy of "Global Cooling".

http://www.skepticalscience.com/Did-global-warming-stop-in-1998-1995-2002-2007-2010.html

The same chart below with trend line that I added to highlight where temperatures are going.

And finally, a sarcastic rendition showing how "skeptics" take limited portions of a chart, starting at a carefully selected year, in order to draw a bogus, downward pointing trend line. Lord Monckton has actually done that but, of course, he completely eliminates the portions of the chart that inconvenience him.

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Is the American empire on the brink of collapse?

by slimboyfat in

historian niall ferguson made some extended remarks recently arguing that the american empire may be closer to the edge than many suppose.. he starts out observing that while the fateful decline of american supremacy is now widely accepted, it is still generally expected that this will be a protracted process.

after all empires don't fall in a day.

rome took centuries to crumble did it not?

villabolo

Sam Whiskey, don't you have a bottle to knock off?

Villabolo

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Is the American empire on the brink of collapse?

by slimboyfat in

historian niall ferguson made some extended remarks recently arguing that the american empire may be closer to the edge than many suppose.. he starts out observing that while the fateful decline of american supremacy is now widely accepted, it is still generally expected that this will be a protracted process.

after all empires don't fall in a day.

rome took centuries to crumble did it not?

villabolo

Lion Cask: "Notice any difference?"

The difference, Lion Cask, is that; left handed "respect" and stating that they "could very well be proven right" notwithstanding, you still can't tell the difference between the word and the action.

As I recently stated, domination is domination no matter what word you use. So invent a word for what the US is doing to the world if you are stumbled over the semantics of the word "Empire". Whatever you call it, American Dominion is still coming down.

Villabolo

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Is the American empire on the brink of collapse?

by slimboyfat in

historian niall ferguson made some extended remarks recently arguing that the american empire may be closer to the edge than many suppose.. he starts out observing that while the fateful decline of american supremacy is now widely accepted, it is still generally expected that this will be a protracted process.

after all empires don't fall in a day.

rome took centuries to crumble did it not?

villabolo

Yes, America will diminish greatly in power but that will be mostly due to social upheavals that will effect the whole world. Everyone has debt, so what. You can learn a lesson from the Hebrew Scripture's concept of Jubilee.

What will effect the world substantially in the next 10-20 years is Climate Change. It has already been the trigger for Mid East unrest which was sparked by spiralling food prices throughout the world.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/political-economy/2011/01/spike_in_global_food_prices_tr.html

This the result of Russia and the Ukraine losing 25% of its wheat crop to a heat wave; Canada's wheat crop getting extensively damaged by intense rains; Pakistan and Australia having their crops damaged by flooding and finally, Argentina having their soybean crop damaged by drought.

Since I'm not going to turn this into a Global Warming thread, I'll simply say this. You're going to get more of the same from now on. It's going to have dramatic repurcussions on this nation and the rest of the world.

Yet another blow to American control of the world. Or itself.

Villabolo

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Is the American empire on the brink of collapse?

by slimboyfat in

historian niall ferguson made some extended remarks recently arguing that the american empire may be closer to the edge than many suppose.. he starts out observing that while the fateful decline of american supremacy is now widely accepted, it is still generally expected that this will be a protracted process.

after all empires don't fall in a day.

rome took centuries to crumble did it not?

villabolo

BTS: "The United States is not an empire."

Tell that to Mossadegh and the Iranians under the US backed Shah. The US is part hegemony, part indirect empire at the service of corporatist interests.

If the US enforcement of an international order collapses, you (Europe) will feel the pain before we do. You have become feeble and vulnerable under our aegis.

To use your "imperial" language, when Rome collapsed, it was the periphery that suffered the invading hordes first.

The Europeans could have easily become weaned off the US dependence on defense around the 1960s but the fact that you declared the Europeans "feeble" only shows where you're coming from Burns. You and your kind want to keep others under you "aegis" forever feeble. That, regardless of the semantics of the term "empire" is a form of domination. It is the domination that counts, not some specific word.

Like a true supporter of tyranny, you use the Roman example to justify the use of force. A Mafia style protection racket; if we don't "protect" you, someone else will. Do you seriously think the Romans gave a damn for those people for their intrinsic value as human beings? Of course not. If they did, they would have converted into a Federation.

Villabolo

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sigh The heartbreak of early onset Algorezheimer's Disease.

by Nathan Natas in

jw
friends

oh al, we hardly knew ye!.

al gore: blizzard of 2011 may be so fierce because of global warmingfeb 2, 2011 3:05 pm - see: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/02/al-gore-blizzard-of-2011-may-be-so-fierce-because-of-global-war/?icid=main%7chtmlws-main-n%7cdl2%7csec3_lnk1%7c198858somebody put a cork in his piehole, please!.

villabolo

Darthfader:

"So basically you are saying were going to get hit with more significant natural disasters regardless of what we do because it's too late to take corrective action?"

NO! What I clearly said was that if we take drastic action now we'll get "kicked in the teeth". If we don't take drastic action now, we'll get our skulls smashed in. You do realize the relative difference between the two?

Having the prospect of getting your skull smashed in should make you look forward to taking corrective action and merely spitting your teeth out.

Villabolo

86

sigh The heartbreak of early onset Algorezheimer's Disease.

by Nathan Natas in

jw
friends

oh al, we hardly knew ye!.

al gore: blizzard of 2011 may be so fierce because of global warmingfeb 2, 2011 3:05 pm - see: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/02/al-gore-blizzard-of-2011-may-be-so-fierce-because-of-global-war/?icid=main%7chtmlws-main-n%7cdl2%7csec3_lnk1%7c198858somebody put a cork in his piehole, please!.

villabolo

A James Thurber Fable

The Scotty Who Knew Too Much

Several summers ago there was a Scotty who went to the country for a visit. The Scotty was contemptuous of the farm dogs he met. These dogs were afraid of a creature they encountered that had a white stripe down its back. The aggressive Scotty announced that he would take the creature on. "Don't you want to ask any questions about him?" a farm dog asked. "Naw," said the Scotty, "you ask the questions."

Undeterred by a squirting and the odoriferous result, the Scotty was soon ready to confront another animal all the farm dogs were afraid of. "Don't you want to ask any questions about him?" a farm dog asked. "Naw," says the Scotty, "just show me where he hangs out." The farm dog showed the Scotty where the animal lived, and within moments, the farm dog was pulling quills out of the Scotty.

Infuriated, the Scotty announced that he had now learned how to fight in the country and would beat up the farm dog. He held his nose with one front paw to ward off squirts and odors and covered his eyes with the other to keep out quills. "The Scotty couldn't see his opponent and he couldn't smell his opponent and he was so badly beaten that he had to be taken back to the city and put in a nursing home."

"Moral: It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers."

Villabolo

86

sigh The heartbreak of early onset Algorezheimer's Disease.

by Nathan Natas in

jw
friends

oh al, we hardly knew ye!.

al gore: blizzard of 2011 may be so fierce because of global warmingfeb 2, 2011 3:05 pm - see: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/02/al-gore-blizzard-of-2011-may-be-so-fierce-because-of-global-war/?icid=main%7chtmlws-main-n%7cdl2%7csec3_lnk1%7c198858somebody put a cork in his piehole, please!.

villabolo

Mindless parrots don't like it when people and the rest of reality doesn't fit into their corporate shaped ideological worldview. Nature doesn't give a turd for the delusions Homo Imbecilitas and their meaningless political parrot squawks.

SQUAWK: "Climate Chaos Cultists don't like it when you mock their foolish political agenda."

"Raise taxes and save the planet!"

I don't believe in cap and trade, which, by the way was invented by Ronald Reagan to control chloroflourocarbons and reduce the damage to the Ozone layer. The climate situation is too far gone for that. I was simply discussing the natural mechanics of what was happening.

Not that a morally and intellectually bankrupt coward has the courage to discuss the facts that I presented earlier. As I previously said, they have no capacity to comprehend basic facts and logic so they stick pins and needles into their magical Al Gore voodoo doll and wish the thunderclouds away.

As far as raising taxes for RICH parasitical scum who feed off the rest of Humanity, don't bother. Shoot them in the head instead.

But it's not about taxes per se to the morally and intellectually bankrupt; it's about their personal irresponsibility and their inability to sacrifice anything for a future that they're too gutless to accept.

So be it. Why should such a cancer as the current Humanity be allowed to spread like gangrene throughout the Galaxy? It's better that Subhumanity destroy itself. A redemption will come when...never mind "pearls to swine".

Squawk: Nathan wants a cracker!

Villabolo

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Judgment Day? For Lars & JCanon- Your Hero, Harold Camping.

by whereami in

"throughout our history, religious leaders and organizations have claimed that their holy books provide accurate prophecies about the end of the world.

the examples shown in this video are (relatively) fringe organizations, but despite their overt activism and cult-like behavior, organizations like familyradio.com provide a glimpse into what the more mainstream religions adhere to and believe.

pastors, priests, apologists, ministers, religious philosophers and leaders of every kind, from every generation, have quoted from the books of daniel and revelation about the end of days.

villabolo

Who was that poster who just a few days ago called OBVES and Harold Camping Jehovah's prophets?

Villabolo