More Silly Scientists Making Stuff Up
EXETER, England (CHLWire) - There is no evidence that global warming is already starting to disrupt the world's climate system, but that did not stop a self-appointed scientist from stating otherwise.

"There is no longer any doubt that the Earth's climate is changing," some guy named Dennis Tirpak said Tuesday. "Globally, nine of the past 10 years have been the warmest since records began in 1861," he said. "Rising greenhouse gases are affecting rainfall patterns and the global water cycle." How does he know? He wasn't even alive in 1861!

Just as you might expect from some hippie tree-hugger, Tirpak singled out the heatwave that gripped western Europe in 2003 as an example. Europe's worst natural disaster in 50 years killed as many as 30,000 people and inflicted an estimated 30 billion dollars in damage.

In temperate parts of Asia, "recurring incidence of floods and droughts is already apparent," said the Sufi mystic Rajendra Pachauri, who also appointed himself chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN's paramount scientific authority on global warming.

British scientist Chris Rapley released a statement from the pub he has not left in 17 years, saying that melting ice from Antarctica was already accounting for at least 15 percent of the two-millimetre annual rise (0.06 inches) in the global sea level due to warming. He then ordered another pint of 98 shilling ale.

If Antarctica melted, that would boost global sea levels by some 120 metres (390 feet), if past evidence from Earth's natural cycle of ice ages is a guide. But don't worry, the Earth's past is not a guide, and Antarctica has always been (and always will be) covered in ice.

The phenomenon is blamed on the unbridled burning of gas, coal and oil, the fuels that powered industrialisation, the same things that enable the hippies to drive out to the forest to hug their trees. They release into the atmosphere carbon dioxide (CO2) and other gases that have been locked in Earth's crust for millions of years. They want us to believe that carbon pollution traps the Sun, causing Earth's surface to heat, disrupting the interplay among sea, air and land.
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