Posted by RJ Maimisburg Oh on Dec 5 2007 9:58AM - Yep we can blame global warming again.. That nasty hoax global warming. Without it they would be having a heat wave now. Darn you global warming..

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Posted by Jeff, FL. on Dec 5 2007 10:07AM - So much for Global warming. Wonder if the larger media will report this or if it gets ignored so we don't upset the Environmental consituent and Al Gore.

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Posted by BG on Dec 5 2007 10:14AM - I blame global warming

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Posted by kd on Dec 5 2007 10:46AM - it is north dakota people this is the way it has been and the way it will always be better get a justed to it or it coulc be along winter

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Posted by Jay, Boston on Dec 5 2007 10:51AM - They will claim that the record snow fall is due to Global Warming. Global warming is used to explain away everything. You can't successfully fear monger for higher taxes and life-style control if you don't keep the words "Global Warming" in people's minds.

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Posted by patriot on Dec 5 2007 10:58AM - It just hit Drudge so it will get more reading. Damn Global Warming causes record snowfall in North Dakota, success in Iraq, Hillary on a downslide, nothing is going well for the Loony Left.

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Posted by GunnyG on Dec 5 2007 11:09AM - Quick! Someone call The Goreacle and Boy Blunder Decaprio! Global Warming is hitting in ND right now!

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Posted by blackchipahoys on Dec 5 2007 11:09AM - ANyone who cant see the earth is warming up is a complete moron. We can debate whether it is caused by man but the warming is an absolute fact!

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Posted by Gerry, South Florida on Dec 5 2007 11:18AM - If Al Gore hadn't got everyone to cut their carbon by bringing out "An Inconvenient Truth", we could have warmed up the globe a few degrees and done away with that inconvenient snow....

(50 degrees here in South Florida today, Global Warming kiddies- your glorious CarbonCreditEmperor is off a bit...)

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Posted by Chris on Dec 5 2007 11:25AM - There you have it. More proof of global warming... NOT!

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Posted by Jackpine Savage on Dec 5 2007 11:33AM - If you're gonna play in Fargo, you gotta have a shovel in the van...

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Posted by Dutch on Dec 5 2007 11:37AM - Yes, Global Warming does cause colder temperatures and increased snowfall, and it's all your fault for being industrious capitalistic humans. We must surrender our freedom for climate-security, otherwise, we're all going to die. Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane....NO...it's SUPER-GORE!!! Save us Al, save us!

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Posted by Bill on Dec 5 2007 11:38AM - Anyone who does not think millions of cars can change the atmosphere…feel free to test your hypothesis in a smaller environment. Lock yourself in an airtight garage with a running car and check the temperature!

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Posted by KevindF on Dec 5 2007 11:39AM - This is why the free lunchers had to move from "global warming" to "climate change" in order to impose their collectivist agenda.

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Posted by Whoot! on Dec 5 2007 11:41AM - Ha ha!!! :)

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Posted by Oracle CEO on Dec 5 2007 11:53AM - Obviously blackchipahoys is not from North Dakota. I show 3° outside right now and about -10° with the wind chill. If he's so afraid of global warming, move to North Dakota where he can see that global cooling would be a whole lot worse.

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Posted by HuskerJeff on Dec 5 2007 11:58AM - Hey BlackChip, every day the earth warms when the sun comes up and cools when it goes down. It is true that the average global temperature seems to have risen in the past decades, but it is almost at the margin of error. That said, those same measurements seem to show that the average temp is now decreasing. Before you call someone a moron, check the science.

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Posted by new york on Dec 5 2007 12:00PM - It is obvious that there is global warming and the man has caused it. The right keeps playing their cards right and they will not have anything to say about it anyway. Keep making the dumb arguments people anyone with an ounce of intelligence will understand the truth.

Next they will be saying Iraq was justified.

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Posted by Claude on Dec 5 2007 12:07PM - Anyone who cant see that we are ultimately doomed is a moron. The earth will sink into a deep ice age!

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Posted by Global Warming Skeptic on Dec 5 2007 12:18PM - I'll buy into man-made Global Warming when somebody can explain to me how extracting dollars from MY pocket will cause the Earth's temperature to fall! As far as "fact", I say "bull butter!" If the EXACT same temperature changes are being seen on Mars as Earth, you CANNOT blame Man! Don't be an idiot Black Chip Ahoys! It's the Leftist, Anti-Capitalists who have control of this issue ~ isn't it obvious????

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Posted by NASA Engineer on Dec 5 2007 12:23PM - No, in fact I can't see it's warming up! The latest satellite data is showing a cooling trend, which is consistant with the established pattern of warming and cooling based on solar output.

Don't march in lockstep with Al Gore! Check out the facts before you are taxed into poverty! It's all about the transfer of dollars from those who "have" to those who "have not".

Fight the leftist anti-capitalists with FACTS not with emotions.

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Posted by msm33m on Dec 5 2007 12:47PM - Blackchipahoys, please recheck the scientific facts. The earth goes through cycles. Given many of the current temparature trends, it's not warming in many areas. People who blindly accept media reports without confirming the facts just may be the morons.

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Posted by John, Vegas on Dec 5 2007 12:50PM - "absolute fact" Over how long of a time line? Drink the koolaid. The sky is falling!

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Posted by DOUCHE on Dec 5 2007 12:53PM - Hey chipahoys Im impressed by your willingness to debate! Mars is warming!!! beware!

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Posted by Gumbo on Dec 5 2007 1:07PM - Heck, Eric The Red loved Global warming...his ancestors live for the good old days when Greenland was really green. All the experts back then...some of Gore's ancestors...blamed to many camp fires.

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Posted by LL in La on Dec 5 2007 1:34PM - msm33m, your comment to Blackchipahoys needs to be spellchecked before you post. You misspelled "are" with "just may be." Please be more careful next time. :-)

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Posted by Redbird25 on Dec 5 2007 2:31PM - Just make your check out to "United Nations Global Warming Prevention Fund" and you'll feel much better about yourself.

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Posted by superdem on Dec 5 2007 2:31PM - Hey, right wingers ! Global warming doesn't mean a universal rise in temperatures evenly across the globe - that has never happened on this planet and no one is saying that will occur now. Rather, a rising overal temperature will result in wild temperature swings, previously unseen weather phenomina, and gradual changes over time that will ultimately change whole climates. No one can argue the polar ice caps and glaciers everywhere on earth are melting. By the time you smart ass right wingers are convinced it will be far too late. Laugh while you can I guess, but the last laugh's on you.

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Posted by robert van der upwich / long beach, ca. on Dec 5 2007 2:33PM - I am offering carbon offsets. Send me $5. and I will hold my breath for 25 seconds in your name to reduce the release of carbon, thereby saving the planet. Then you can drive an SUV or fly private like Gore, and act responsible.

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Posted by SmiggLover on Dec 5 2007 2:39PM - some of you people are downright morons. the earth warms and cools on a natural cycle. sometimes it snows 2 inches sometimes 2 feet... sometimes theres 8 hurricanes but sometimes theres 19. THERES NO SUCH THING AS GLOBAL WARMING PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted by ERIC on Dec 5 2007 2:41PM - I live in Northern Maine and we haven't had this amount of snow this early for years...., but its winter time so it spretty much expected that at some date between November and april we are going to get snow! hello McFly! I don't buy this global warming sham either...please explain to me how someone in washington D.C who lowers their carbon footprint is going to help me keep my house warm...what a joke...not one more dollar should be spent on fighting global warming or climate change or whatever the hell else the wack job commies are calling it today....

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Posted by lakestate on Dec 5 2007 3:07PM - Yes, the earth is warming. Has been for millions of years... before man. How do you think the Great Lakes were formed? Melting Glaciers.

Mars is warming too, how many SUVs do they drive on Mars? The only people that think global warming is man made are the gulible Moonbats. Even Algore knows global warming isn't man made. But as long as the looney left keeps following, Al will keep on piping drivel.

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Posted by Solar & Geothermic on Dec 5 2007 3:12PM - All ~ When you're talking "cycles", don't forget to consider not only the well documented 11 yr solar cycles (ask any HAM radio operator) But look into geothermal cycles. The magma within our Earth's core moves with relation to the surface. With the newer Earth Observation Satellite (EOS) systems, this data can be monitored and it's showing where we have thermal cycles based on migrating hot spots within the Earth. Combine the Solar and the Geothermic variations ~ and you get lots of thermal cycles across the planet, ones that have been going on since the formation of the planet. Should we keep our planet as clean as possible? Certainly! Should we NOT pollute where we are economically able to? Yes!

Should we deplete our economic resources, throw our financial systems into disarray, and embark into a systematic transfer of wealth from those who "have" to those who "have not"?

ABSOLUTELY NOT!

Don't buy into the socialist propoganda! WRITE YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AT ALL LOCAL/STATE/FEDERAL LEVELS!

NOW!

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Posted by Pope on Dec 5 2007 3:19PM - I just callled ALGORE but he was very busy doing a word search and replace in his presentations. He was searching for the words "warming" and replacing them with the words "cooling".

I guess he finally figured it out.

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Posted by The Skillet on Dec 5 2007 3:21PM - Can somebody please tell me what the ideal temperature of the earth is? Thanks!

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Posted by Rich Aucoin on Dec 5 2007 3:30PM - The method for measuring snow changed in 1996.
This is why so many snowfall records are supposedly being broken these days.
See the Snow Scam:
http://richaucoin.com/_wsn/page4.html

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Posted by Brendan on Dec 5 2007 3:31PM - Don't rail on poor old blackchipperboy. he's a good lib dope! if the als (gore and franken) say it, it must be so. and all 6 of his IQs agree! get a life! come february i know i'll be praying for some global warming!

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Posted by Common Scents on Dec 5 2007 4:16PM - superdem Please look at the data the last 100 years and the data throughout history. The warmest period the last 100 years was the 1930's, even though the biggest increase in industrialism was yet to come during WW2. There were no SUV's and the evil capitalists were fighting tremendous heat and drought during those years. Historically, ealier in the first millenium, the earth heated up considerably. Greenland was warm enough to sustain crops and yes grapes during those times. IT HAS BEEN DOCUMENTED! A few hundred years later the Northern Europeans had to move from Greenland because of a rapid cooling. The earth's weather is dependant on several factors and none are "man made". The "Weather Control" people (by the way the last great weather control machine was developed by Simon Barsinister of Underdog fame), are bigger saps than the Population Explosion People and The Ice Age People.

Good Luck

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Posted by Tony on Dec 5 2007 4:25PM - Say. I'm from beautiful sunny Queensland in far off Australi, where we are just staring Summer. A friend of mine in California sent me this link. We both share a healthy skepticism about global warming. This global warming (in place of those two words insert another two, 'more taxes') phenomenon has gained a foothold here in Australia now that the newly elected Government has been elected and the first (symbolic) thing that they did was to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Because of that, the loony left has been crawling out from under their logs (Oh! Sorry they're not allowed to have logs any more, something to do with the carbon in them)
One story that has popped up is this one and I'll enclose the link for you all to read of an Australian news clip of an American report.
I think the loonies are taking over.
TonyfromOz

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Posted by Tony on Dec 5 2007 4:27PM - Sorry guys. Forgot the link.
Global warming got to me.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/04/2109153.htm?section=justin
TonyfromOz

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Posted by Howard Lee on Dec 5 2007 4:32PM - All the left wingers sucked in by the global warming junk science nonsense should immediately send their checks to the absolutely incorruptible and always right UN. In addition, leftwing nuts should send more money to the IRS and their state IRS. That will make them feel so much better and superior to us dummies out here.

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Posted by Dan on Dec 5 2007 4:44PM - Faith in global warming, for many, has replaced the faith of their ancestors. As someone (the Pointer Sisters?) once said, you've got to believe in something.

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Posted by blastoff on Dec 5 2007 4:53PM - You right-wingers sure are stupid.

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Posted by Marine4Life on Dec 5 2007 5:33PM - blackchipahoys- I do believe you need to think out of the box, or at least- out of the Left side of the box.
Take time to read the other scientists- not the one Al "Bore" supports.

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Posted by Joe on Dec 5 2007 5:33PM - "Lock yourself in an airtight garage with a running car and check the temperature!"

Nice try but if you employ correct modeling scales I have a feeling that you wouldn't change the garage temp at all.

It could be something on the order of a small diecast car turning over in a room the size of skyscraper...no effect...at all.

There is global warming however such is the result of larger elements such as the Sun. If you check all the planets of late you would see similar increases in temp across them all.

30 years ago it was global cooling...

...now it's global warming....

I guess thats weather, huh?

Silly wabbits, tricks are for kids!

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Posted by brooha on Dec 5 2007 5:33PM - oh my gosh it's Global Warming, everybody take off your clothes!

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Posted by Lena_hasDaShovel on Dec 5 2007 5:41PM - Im pushing 50 and a Native Nodaker here in Fargo. I was taught in school that ve was going to go back to da ice age ya know, vell I thought then it could be possible. Ole and me could valk right up to the top of the phone poll one year the snow was dat high!. We get them artic airs pushing down on us from Canada quite often ya know. 3 yrs ago about we had 50 below da donut and it vas not da wind chill by gulley!, so Ole an me we just laugh are dern heads off watching da global warming folks with there dander up acting the fool. Listen to the weather report and you vill see it is a common deal da cold, da dang heat and sleet. We break some record or another effreee year so HOLY COW keep ya shirt on. The Cali peeps sure aint going to riot on Broadway in Fargo dats fer sure. When ya all going to stop dis sillyness, we got a good reason to not pollute. Its so we keep our snow clean and white, our ND air clean and our cute critters happy and safe to eat!!!!

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Posted by colonnaka820 on Dec 5 2007 5:49PM - Record snows in ND, record snows in ME, snowfalls in the Swiss Alps are over the top this year setting up what should be a banner alpine season, southern South America is just now winding down one of its toughest winters in decades, record cool temps and flooding in the UK this summer....sure sounds like excessive heat to me....

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Posted by Paul Tully on Dec 5 2007 6:05PM - Superdem,"No one can argue the polar ice caps and glaciers everywhere on earth are melting"... factually wrong.

Although the glaciers in the arctic are in fact melting at the southern edges. Antartica is not melting at all.

Explaination: If you pile snow up in the middle of an floating iceberg it will get bigger and as the big iceberg gets larger, the edges approching the warmer air. These edges will then melt away. Otherwise the whole world would be ice! You do know that the artic has no land under it right?

The other ice cap, that would be the one to the south, is on land. It is getting bigger and colder, not smaller. Check your facts.

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Posted by Alex on Dec 5 2007 6:05PM - Hey Superdem, check the stats on the glacier on Mt. Rainier. It's depth has INCREASED 13 feet since the 1930's.

And who, exactly, said we are even suppose to have ice at the poles?

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Posted by Scott on Dec 5 2007 6:17PM - Here's a tip for you: the first step to even debating about global climate change is realizing the difference between climate and weather. This article is about weather, yet a debate has ensued about climate. You can't relate one individual weather event to a climate debate.

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Posted by Margie on Dec 5 2007 6:39PM - Gonna make it hard to collect those crawlers, dontchaknow!

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Posted by Jeff on Dec 5 2007 7:25PM - Climate and weather are two different things. Go to school, or at least read what the majority of the world's scientists are saying.

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Posted by Tim on Dec 5 2007 8:31PM - In Idaho, we got close to two feet of snow on sunday, as of today I would say, all but a couple inches have melted away.

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Posted by Jim on Dec 5 2007 8:40PM - The drastic measures proposed to theoretically cool Earth’s climate by two degrees Celsius could cost as much as $26.5 trillion, almost nine times the entire federal budget. Given the enormous scientific uncertainties about how natural forces warm and cool our planet, we could bankrupt the world’s economies and inadvertently make the climate worse, not better. Glenn Beck

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Posted by Jim on Dec 5 2007 8:41PM - Residents in Argentina and Brazil are wondering if this winter will ever end. Buenos Aires recorded this Thursday (November 15th) the lowest November temperature in 90 years. Temperature in the Downtown weather station reached 2.5C. Since records began more than a century ago, only two days had colder lows in November. It was in 1914 (1.6) and 1917 (2.4). And ninety years ago the urban heat island effect was much less pronounced than nowadays. In Brazil's southernmost province Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil temperatures fell to 2.3C. In Sao Joaquim Monday's (Nov., 12) the temperature was -1.2 C with frost. Reason McLucus 16 Nov 07

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Posted by Independent on Dec 5 2007 8:52PM - Actually global warming is only a currant fad among weather gurus. Remember the ice age fad some years back. Science Fads goes in cycles like the weather does only in all fields of science.

Common sense is not a prerequisite for a science degree.

Mars is truely warming up as is Venus. Jupiter is doing something but it has'nt been decided what yet.
This fact has been known for sometime and how strange it keeps being overlooked and under reported.

Actually South America has had 4 very cold winters, this one being the worse.

The central part of the Antartic is getting colder as is iceland.

I'm neither on the left or the right. I think for myself which includes deciding if i want to use spell check or not.

Have a great day all!!!!!

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Posted by fossilman on Dec 5 2007 9:07PM - Cool,with all this snow coming this winter-makes for great fishing next summer..Bring it on....

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Posted by gmrk on Dec 5 2007 9:19PM - I'm all for global warming. I live in Michigan.

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Posted by Joe on Dec 5 2007 9:21PM - Uhhh...Scott & Jeff. You may wish to review your position:

"Climates are changing because our Earth is warming, according to the research of scientists. Does this contribute to a warm summer day? It may, however global climate change is actually much more complicated than that because a change in the temperature can cause changes in other weather elements such as clouds or precipitation."

http://www.eo.ucar.edu/basics/

and we are talking about snowfall which is precipitation.


Just my 2 cents...

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Posted by Patrick C. on Dec 5 2007 9:47PM - Gosh! Where's that "global warming" when you really need it? Oops! Sorry. Of course all of this snow is just another manifestation of global warming, isn't it? Looks like the eco-nazis are going to have a white Christmas after all.

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Posted by Mario on Dec 5 2007 10:07PM - It came out in the news a few months back that global warming is caused by cows burping. Yes, British researchers were able to uncover this astonishing fact. I believe they were dairy cows, but I'm not sure. Yeah, check it out...
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GlobalWarming/story?id=2723201
So much for what the scientists are saying...the ones who are
primarily responsible for polluting technologiessure, blame the cows...

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Posted by sad on Dec 5 2007 10:47PM - Ignorance is Bliss!!!! All our kids and grandkids will be cursing us while we rot in our graves. Definately something to be stupidly stubborn about. Rock on right wing crazies!

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Posted by Dennis on Dec 5 2007 11:00PM - What ever hapened to acid rain?...And that south american rain forest? Why is it still here? We were "taught" in the "80's" that the rain forest was being harvested at such a rate that it would be gone before 2000 unless acid rain didn't destroy it first. And why is it that every time a record high temp is broken it was a 100 year old record? Why was it so warm 100 years ago? And why is it that every hippie enviromental scheme can only be fixed by destroying capitalism? I used to be a filthy LIB 15 years ago. But I've been Cured!

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Posted by Rich711 on Dec 5 2007 11:39PM - I guess it's that time of year again when all the reporters start replacing "global warming" with "climate change."

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Posted by simplyhammerrules on Dec 6 2007 12:00AM - Test

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Posted by Global_Warming_is_NUTS on Dec 6 2007 12:04AM - For all you nuts who worship at AlGores altar of global warming, perhaps you should view how official record temperatures are actually measured at: http://wordpress.com/tag/weather_stations/

and explain how skewed the data has become.

...but then, AlGore, the great climatologist who in a previous life invented the internet and the paperclip, would likely ignore any data or other facts that don't fit his preconceived conclusions....as he has already done.

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Posted by Lena_HasDaShovel on Dec 6 2007 12:18AM - sad besides watching the seasons come and go I do all those green deeds. I recall as a child the Mississipi being to dirty to swim in. We where dumping tons of waste into our rivers, people each burned there own garbage. People just threw there trash on the ground. The United States as I recall lead the way. Now there is a huge ways to go. We need to do what we can as indivisuals and familys. Drastic changes mean loss of jobs and lower wages, Iv never worked for a poor person. Sad have you made drastic lifestyle changes????? This matra you posted is like a rerun of MASH. Those that prosper are demonized, we elect those to make laws so they shape up, years of lay offs, taxes and counting change for a trip to the market untill a conservitive is elected. We will enjoy eating a balanced diet untill Hillary is elected. Poverty is the reason for thease high pollution emissions but not from the US, UK and other developing nations. Thease extreem left socialist and communist countrys own the factorys and most all agree they pollute the most. Now if we follow forced drastic changes on Co we all lose. Sad exactly what are you personally doing to halt global warming?

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Posted by Jimmy on Dec 6 2007 12:18AM - If you don't like the weather, move to south-central Asia, it's warm there, and lots of good jobs, too.

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Posted by John McDaniel on Dec 6 2007 12:30AM - I am a right wing crazy and I have lived 85 years, so I have seen a lot of weather extreems. 24 States had record high temperatures in the 1930s. In August of 1936 Seymour, Texas had a high of 120 degrees. Part of Texas had a drouth and hot weather that created the great dust bowl of the 30s.
Our weather extreems come in cycles of several decades. Cold weather will come again if we live long enough to see it.
When you witness extreem weather just ask if it ever happened before. As Will Rogers said, "Everybody talks aout the weather and no one does anything about it."

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Posted by RG in So-Cal on Dec 6 2007 12:37AM - Obviously Gore is suffering from "Brain-Freeze" at this point.
Glad to see some people with common sense out in North Dakota, mind if I join you? I have to to leave this land of "Fruits and Nuts" and soon.

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Posted by Elery on Dec 6 2007 7:04AM - It warms my heart to see that so many posters know that man caused global warming is a bunch of baloney. Too bad "Sad". If you really believe we are causing global warming, perhaps you should not be having kids.

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Posted by American on Dec 6 2007 7:13AM - I'm very happy to see so many true patriots questioning the so-called "wisdom" of the leftist scientific community. Along those same lines, it's absurd how the dumb-o-crats insist that gravity affects all objects equally. Hello! Try dropping a feather and a bowling ball at the same time and see which one lands first.

Also, frequencies of light that are invisible to the naked eye? Please. Thank God Republicans are around to call them on their partisan scientific B.S.

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Posted by AnchorBeach in CT on Dec 6 2007 7:42AM - Global Warming as described by Saint Gore is a hoax and an excuse to destroy our nation,destroy our capitalist society, destroy our civil liberties.Remember these same people are the ones who celebrate the Hugo Chavezes of the world.
VOTE FREEDOM! VOTE REPUBLICAN! VOTE RUDY!

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Posted by Jim in MPLS,MN on Dec 6 2007 8:31AM - I laughed last year when two gals went on some N Pole expedition to glamorize "Global Warming"... they quit and called "help" after they almost froze to death.

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Posted by Timmah on Dec 6 2007 9:24AM - The argument that "a million cars effect the atmosphere/ try running your car is the airtight garage" is a perfect example of typical liberal, non-scientific static analysis. What would the atmosphere in the garage be a week, a month, a year later? Remember, it's gonna snow and rain and be dark and be sunny and windy and hot and cold and have trees and algae and animals living in that airtight garage. There might even be a volcanic ertuption or two. The manmade global warming cult is intended to sway the ignorant masses, and it requires your money to do it.

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Posted by Jeremy on Dec 6 2007 9:58AM - Global warming or not, what kind of fool wants to live in North Dakota. What a death trap.

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Posted by Bob in ND on Dec 6 2007 10:41AM - AnchorBeach in CT, You meant Ron Paul. The guy (Rudy) you put down is the same old boloney. This Global warming thing would have NEVER been able to get to this level, if people would do their own research and stop watching the Corporate Fascist News Media.

VOTE FREEDOM! VOTE REPUBLICAN! VOTE RON PAUL!

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Posted by biel on Dec 6 2007 11:50AM - global warming is just a natural thing deal with it

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Posted by biel on Dec 6 2007 11:51AM - global warming is just a natural thing deal with it

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Posted by da bomb on Dec 6 2007 2:39PM - For all you idiots up above...global warming causes erratic weather...abnormal weather...hot or cold. So a record snowfall can be an effect of global warming...it throws the whole system out of wack. Dont be stupid.

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Posted by Lena_HasDaShovel on Dec 6 2007 6:38PM - Jeremy its all about the people besides North Dakota has been a lot of out of State outdoor enthusiasts best kept secret. Our cold weather does help keep out the wrift wraft. We have mostly democrats that are down to earth common sense types, We have some extreme weather yet its the people who quickly group together and sand bag, clean up and even those evil big biz responds. I think there is a lot to learn from us Idiots in ND, New Orleans, Floridians for example stand around waiting for the goverment and whine. "I am waiting for the Gov to clean up before I move back to NO" Look at the City of Grand Forks that was destroyed by The Hundred Year flood in 97 said it take years, they pretty much got going in a year and thriveing today.
Global warming scare has bad intentions. John is wise as are Nodakers who depend in some way on weather, we are the largest supplier of spring wheat in the world. If liberals where against the TRICKLE DOWN theory of the Regan years then why will it work to solve global warming?, It is time for people to be responcible for there own energy use, people like John come from a generation of people that conserved and despised waste. Pointing the finger at big biz and the goverment to solve all are ills is Idiotic, never happened and never will, get off your duff then and clean up your own backyard, I notice the more liberal the more the person is wastefull. Thank God I live among people who pitch in to help there neighbor, dont whine, and can be seen banding together working rather than standing around being a victim who needs the goverment to bring Da Shovel!!!

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Posted by sad on Dec 6 2007 7:15PM - Lena_HasDaShovel...
I don't yet do enough but this is what i do. I have installed all energy smart lightbulbs in my home. I rarely eat meat. I use canvas bags when I get groceries. I recycle my newspapers and plastic bottles. I turn the water off when i brush my teeth and never leave lights on in rooms I am not occupying. I take quick showers and use natural housecleaning products. I pay all my bills online and no longer receive paper statements. I try to walk as much as possible and am currently in the process of purchasing my first hybrid car. My christmas presents this year to others will be wrapped in old magazines and newspapers.
These are a few things I do to help offset my carbon footprint. I am no where close to doing enough but I am slowly getting better at it.
For those of you that don't do anything to conserve I am fine with that. You live your life and I will happily live mine.


So Lena_HasDaShovel what do you do to help the cause of global warming?

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Posted by michifnd on Dec 6 2007 7:20PM - da bomb no need to be rude. Im quite aware as most posters are that Global warming claims also state that any weather extreme is caused by Global warming. What maney of us are saying is that we have lived through weather trends such as those happening today. I think most people agree we need to change over to cleaner energy use. Our power grids need a major overhaul, we need to help developing Nations, pressure those Countries like China that needs to put some of there Goverments huge profits back into there factories to lower emissions, supply cleaner ways for there poor to heat so on. If in fact Global warming is real the US is not high on the list of contributeing to it. da bomb do you even know how the electricity in your area is produced? coal? if so then what is your State doing to burn cleaner?, Global warming seams to be Global Anger, calling others stupid. Iv heard no solutions from any of the rude posters here. If indivisuals themselves took measures at home the impact could be huge. After all somebody is buying all the goods that are produced, shipped and then end up in land fills. Being more efficient is a goal most try to achieve, its the loudmouths calling names that I notice to be clueless and use the most products that add to this so called Global Warming. I never get a responce from a Attack Lib who takes a bus, buys locally produced goods, conserves on heat or electric. (Lena Has DaShovel)

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Posted by Ernie on Dec 7 2007 12:17AM - All we heard during hurricane Katrina was how bad global warming was and how it’s going to get worse. The next two years, .............. nothing?? Mmmmmmm, maybe we’re not supposed to use common sense on this topic. And I wonder what melted the ice age. Caveman SUV’s?

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Posted by Bob in ND on Dec 7 2007 12:57AM - The Global warming thing is a lie! There is no science to prove it. Your SUV will not ruin the world, nor will man. It will be God that ends the world as we know it. Dr. Michael S. Coffman Ph.D in a movie called, World events and prophecy, states "Global warming is not true"! Why does the UN feel 4 out of 5 people of the world, need to die to save the world from Global warming! With a world population cap of 500 million. That is the same number as the Illuminati, isn't that strange! When these nut jobs state you need to die, to "Save the World" will you be standing in line! Stop worshiping the creation, and worship the creator. As for North Dakota being a death trap, what will your state be like with food riots? 40 below keeps the riff-raff out!

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Posted by Ashley on Dec 7 2007 2:38PM - I don't really wish to dignify the responses of those who have taken a single day's weather in one location and used it as "proof" that global warming isn't occurring. BUTI feel it salient to point out that global warming would come with increased average global precipitation. Simply put, warmer air holds more water. Thus, more rain/snow. The weather in Fargo on Tuesday wasn't 40 belowin fact, the high was a relatively balmy 21 degrees.

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Posted by Independant on Dec 7 2007 8:04PM - American, please don't put American down as a user name when making enept statements such as comparing the falling of a feather and bowling ball and the frequences of light.
The world already thinks the worst of us. Don't make it worse.

Because of earths atmosphere the air will prevent the feather from falling at the same rate as the bowling ball.Not gravity. On the moon they would fall at the same rate of speed.Look it up. Visable and invisable light travel at the same speed. Off the top of my head, i beleive its around 186,000 miles per second. you can look that up too It'll be good for you.

Thanks for the info about Mt. Ranier glacier Alex. Mario,i read abt the British cows too. No comment. Thanks for the Austrailian link Tony

Lena_Has The Shovel, you seem to be a very smart lady and comman sense too. Thinking that of course makes me completely agree with you.

I'd love to visit ND and it,s sturdy
people and i know i'd love to have you as neighbors.

If the leftist and rightists could come together and agree to disagree and work together to make us a good country. Think what a powerful force we could be.
Have a Great Day!!!!

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Posted by wayupnorth on Dec 10 2007 11:02AM - I am moving back to ND in February...call me crazy but, GRAND FORKS HERE I COME!!!!

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Posted by American on Dec 11 2007 7:17AM - Hmm... Independent, you make a number of good points, but I'd prefer to have someone quote me a bible verse before I make a decision one way or the other.

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Posted by Æric on Dec 11 2007 2:06PM - Man, only in a backwards state like ND can a snowstorm spark controversy. Bob in ND even brought the God card out to play by saying loosely quoted:

"Me watch movie Dr. wrote, me blindly worship dictator god and god chosen republicans, me reference blindly, me not know what rest of world is."

The United States is not gods chosen country. Your attitudes are so self involved that is weird to think you're worshipping a creator.

Things aren't the way they're supposed to be when a snowstorm dumps 8 inches, then the next day its raining, 60 degrees and causing a major flood. Thats not Alla... God, thats us.

If you chose to reply, don't forget to bring out that proverbial six year old in you. It makes for good reading while you contradict yourself.

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Posted by sad on Dec 12 2007 10:44PM - Republican conservative logic at it's finest!


“We don’t know if global warming is a threat, so let’s not do anything”

“We don’t know if Iran has nuclear weapons, so let’s nuke them”


Priceless.

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Posted by Laughing on Jan 30 2008 8:04AM - Wow, I guess when you live in ND the winters get pretty boring. Sounds like you guys have been hold up too long in your houses due to all the snow and cold. Don't worry! Summer is on the way. You will all be free soon!

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Posted by Allen on Mar 16 2008 12:40PM - What IGNORANCE!!!!!! The people who claim global warming is a hoax, are the very people dooming the inhabitants of Earth. Why did Russia plant it's flag at the north pole? Oil fields will become available once ALL THE ICE MELTS! Countries are claiming territory in the arctic in order to have access to new shipping lanes that will become available after ALL THE ICE MELTS! The real hoax is that global warming is a hoax.

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