Are there still any DUers who doubt climate change, or that it's man-made?

[franksolich]

You need to get an inexpensive digital camera to take pictures up there.

This was extraordinary last night, sir.

The photographs one usually sees of storms in Nebraska are those of ordinary storms, just like the photographs I'd posted earlier in this thread.

During extraordinary storms, nobody, but nobody, is out taking pictures.

There are no photographs of extraordinary storms in Nebraska; only photographs of ordinary storms.

[franksolich]

Okay, it's heavily raining up here on the roof of Nebraska this morning, but a damage report is in order.

Vast parts of the state were shattered (Omaha though escaped a tornado, which is extraordinary), this area too.

The bug-eyed caretaker (I used to call him the town drunkard, but that seems indelicate, considering I admire him, so now he's been re-baptized) came out this morning.  He thought for sure the place had been flattened, given what he's seen other places nearby.

Eleven trees are down, nine of which he figures he'll chain-saw down for firewood--it's good wood after all, great wood, oak and stuff--the other two, he'll just leave alone.  My motor vehicle had been shifted by the winds; I had parked it facing due east, and the storm shoved it to parking facing due northeast.  There are no leaks, but the roof, which is older than franksolich, will probably have to be looked at.  The foliage is flattened all over, but it should bounce back up in two or three days.

The river in my backyard's rising, but of no concern right now.

The grove of walnut trees survived without a scratch.

There's half of a grain-bin out in the meadow, its original location unknown.

There's one of those long pipes from someone's center-pivot irrigation system up in a tree; the bugeyed caretaker's going to have to borrow a crane to get that down.  Who it belongs to, is currently unknown.

The power lines are fine; the natural gas line is allegedly fine.

The William Rivers Pitt still stands, Gibraltar-like.

The cats are fine.

And I'm sure the primitives are rejoicing and thanking God that franksolich is fine.

It's supposed to rain here all day, and possibly this evening will be much like last evening.

We'll see; I remain, as usual, defiantly confident.

[Wineslob]

Just remember Frank, if you were to come to some sort of demise, the cats will dispose of your body, one bite at a time.



 

[thundley4]

This was extraordinary last night, sir.

The photographs one usually sees of storms in Nebraska are those of ordinary storms, just like the photographs I'd posted earlier in this thread.

During extraordinary storms, nobody, but nobody, is out taking pictures.

There are no photographs of extraordinary storms in Nebraska; only photographs of ordinary storms.

A month or two ago I went outside during a heavy windstorm with my camera set for video. Even though it was early afternoon it was fairly dark, but not too dark to see a huge branch fly from one neighbors tree, across our backyard and over the street to finally land in another neighbors yard.  I went back inside at that point.

[BlueStateSaint]

A month or two ago I went outside during a heavy windstorm with my camera set for video. Even though it was early afternoon it was fairly dark, but not too dark to see a huge branch fly from one neighbors tree, across our backyard and over the street to finally land in another neighbors yard.  I went back inside at that point.

Ain't it funny how that pesky "self-preservation instinct" keeps kicking in?

[Tucker]

Edweird (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon Jun-20-11 01:24 PM
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13. Present. The climate is clearly changing - if it weren't THAT would be cause for alarm.
   
Edited on Mon Jun-20-11 01:27 PM by Edweird
However I don't believe it's man made. In fact, I find it laughably arrogant that humans believe they have that much power over the planet.
All of the arguments for man made global warming rely on cherry picked informatino and a very narrow view of climate history. I'm replying from my phone on my lunch break and I'll be back later on my laptop to deal with the inevitable flames. I'll be happy to provide the science behind my position at that time.

I heard Rush say years ago that it is arrogant to believe that man could destroy something that God created.

[Rebel]

I heard Rush say years ago that it is arrogant to believe that man could destroy something that God created.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0aFPXr4n4[/youtube]

[franksolich]

I heard Rush say years ago that it is arrogant to believe that man could destroy something that God created.

No primitive has ever seen a thunderstorm, even a little itty-bitty one, in the Sandhills.

If he had, he wouldn't be a primitive any more, and would be a God-respecting person in addition to that.

And as for the scientists studying the matter, they're all sitting in offices and laboratories, making computer simulations and tinkering with a few factors to see what they can extrapolate from that.  Human knowledge, human understanding, is finite, while Reality is infinite.  There's no way a man's brain or a computer is big enough to see and analyze all things, all factors concerning the way climate is.

[franksolich]

I heard Rush say years ago that it is arrogant to believe that man could destroy something that God created.

Yes.

[franksolich]

A month or two ago I went outside during a heavy windstorm with my camera set for video. Even though it was early afternoon it was fairly dark, but not too dark to see a huge branch fly from one neighbors tree, across our backyard and over the street to finally land in another neighbors yard.  I went back inside at that point.

See, that's the problem.

If one is a far distance away from a storm, one can get good shots.

But if one's right in the center of a maelstrom, snapping photographs, all one is going to get are photographs of.....utter blackness, nothing more.  No shots of pretty clouds, no shots of falling rain.

Never mind that one puts oneself into peril taking photographs; simply put, the photographs aren't going to be any good anyway.

[Wineslob]

No primitive has ever seen a thunderstorm, even a little itty-bitty one, in the Sandhills.

If he had, he wouldn't be a primitive any more, and would be a God-respecting person in addition to that.

And as for the scientists studying the matter, they're all sitting in offices and laboratories, making computer simulations and tinkering with a few factors to see what they can extrapolate from that.  Human knowledge, human understanding, is finite, while Reality is infinite.  There's no way a man's brain or a computer is big enough to see and analyze all things, all factors concerning the way climate is.

Exactly. I still can't count on my local weather.............person to get the weekly forecast right.

[GOBUCKS]

And as for the scientists studying the matter, they're all sitting in offices and laboratories, making computer simulations and tinkering with a few factors to see what they can extrapolate from that.  Human knowledge, human understanding, is finite, while Reality is infinite.  There's no way a man's brain or a computer is big enough to see and analyze all things, all factors concerning the way climate is.

"Climate scientists" do only one thing. They finagle data in whatever way is necessary to keep the faucet open on government grant money.
They've proven over and over that government grant money, not science, is their sole objective. They are what democrats call whores.