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powerboatr said:and the speed of lihgt is slowing down on a predictable continual basis
so before long the days will get LOOOOONGER
LOL, that reminds me of the scene in Airplane with Jones, the neurotic goof that is at the airport control tower, when the weather man gets on the radio and says "the FOG is getting THICKER!" and then Jones comes on and grabs the flab of some generic passer-by and says "and Leon's getting LAAAAAARGER!"
Oh, did I mention that the Second Law of Thermodynamics states that eventually everything will reach total entropy, resulting in a collapse of the entire universe? This has to be caused by humans, somehow.... Maybe our desire to flatten everything out for development, therefore reducing or eliminating any "potential energy" stored in the natural environment is causing this.
Or the chance that a meteor will strike the Earth in 2012, has to be related to our deforestation activities causing more reflected solar energy to change the course of asteroids to strike the earth.
You know, one day, the sun will explode, and turn into a "red giant", effectively engulfing Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. This has to be as a result of our increased carbon dioxide emissions and destruction of the ozone layer, making the Earth a magnet for the sun's energy, effectively sapping it of any energy it has, resulting in this cataclysm.
While the above examples sound silly, they are right on par with the logic used to explain global warming. The logic of, "anything and everything that happens has to be directly or consequentially related to an action, or lack thereof, by some human organization, locality, or individual" seems very dominant, and it is a direct result of the fact that man, in his absolute arrogance, has failed to realize that things can and do happen all of the time without his influence, and that in many cases, there is nothing he can do about it.
While the Earth has had weather for billions of years, (or even, if you are among those that believe that the Earth is only 6,500 years old, 6,500 years) yet we have only been keeping accurate climactic data for about 150 years. Therefore, depending on your viewpoint, we have been keeping climatic data for either 0.0000000375 of the Earth's existence, or .023 (if you believe the 6,500 year thing). So based on our review of (best case scenario) twenty three thousandths of the historical weather pattern on Earth, we have somehow been able to decide on a "mean" earth temperature, and that we are now "above" that mean, and continuing to rise above that mean as we speak. Worst case scenario, we are talking 375 octillionths (is that even a word?) of the historical weather pattern. Any scientist worth his degree would laugh his butt off at you if you presented him with a study based on a sample of only 23 thousandths of such a diverse population, without you re-running the study tens or even hundreds of times with a very high margin of repeatable results. It is not even possible to work with a number so small as .0000000375 in most studies, yet these "scientists" are basing the "fact" of global warming on that very number.
It is an undeniable fact that, based on the mean temperature for the last 150 years, we are getting warmer, and we are even above the mean by 0.7 degrees celsius. However, when that is .0000000375's of the actual story, what the heck does that really mean? And how does that prove that humans have anything to do with it?
couldn't help myself.