Your post is complete and udder crap.
To you perhaps,,, but so is Bovine Flatulent Global Warming studies to me and others who think this is an utter waste of taxpayer money.
BTW.... I do not know if you actually
intended for your post to be such an awesome play on words, I must commend you on using the word "udder" (the baggy mammary gland on a bovine/cow) along with the word "crap" (considering that are basically talking about cow farts). If not, I think you mean "utter crap."
1. It makes perfect scientific sense to study all causes of the warming, cow farts included. Humans have domesticated massive amounts of cows. Methane is a known GHG, and the amount that the domestication of livestock impacts our climate is certainly a legitimate study topic. You are being highly ignorant on this issue.
I hardly believe I am ignorant on this issue but hey, I'll just say "whatever"
on that one.
Over the lifetime of the earth, there were and have been far more animals on the planet farting away for many centuries and I am certain it will continue. And increase in domestic livestock levels and their associated flatulent methane output levels have certainly been negated by man's reduction (and elimination in some cases) of certain animal species. I have to believe that man's impact has caused a significant decrease in the global population levels of elephants and hippos (most of the larger mammals) has proportionately decreased the amount of flatulent methane produced by former herd levels and compensated for by cow flatulent methane levels.
In short, a wash... but
the point is that it is a waste of taxpayer money.... much of which is spent anyway by global warming-supporting politicians protecting their own interests, corporate "green" company kickbacks (do you want to hear the Solydra story again?) and misguided belief systems over that of their core constituencies. Those politicians ARE NOT SCIENTISTS and simply use the global warming lie to exploit money and political favors from corporations and the other members of the federal government. Same game that has been going on for decades.... even longer than global warming discussions. Call me all the words you wish but I tend to like to think my taxpaye dollars, your taxpayer dollars, and everyone else's taxpayer dollars are quite a bit better spent on simple life necessities: food, clothing, shelter,
heat (not everyone has these you know and no global warming study is ever going to help those in need of those basic necessities).
2. Yes, sophisticated understanding, that comes from continued scientific discoveries, made by studying (cow farts included). Again, you are showing a large amount of ignorance if you think our understanding of the climate is not more sophisticated than in Roman times. Get a freeking clue dude.
I will take that one as I was too sloppy with my words previously.
Yes... data collection and technology to collect said data are indeed more sophisticated. Bravo!
The "understanding of the climate" is not more sophisticated... it is simply based on making more connections as to what influences what on the planet and the mechanisms by which that is understood to be occuring. If that is"sophistication of understanding" to you, so be it. I view it more as seeing what has always been there but our eyes and minds were not processing what is truly already there.
3. You are 100% incorrect in your statement that the data gathered over the last 100 years (and the past 30+ for high resolution) is estimates. That is absolutely wrong. It is directly measured data.
After reading my previous post, I can understand how you interpreted my previous statement. The "last 130-year data" (post Industrial Revolution time frame to present, generally speaking) has been measured more accurately and yes, in some cases, direct measurements. My point with all of my "...blathering about earth and its age" is that what we have measured in the last 130 or so years cannot be easily extrapolated back into pre-Industrial Revolution temperature and global climate data! No one knows how hot the earth actually was when it was forming, solidifying, or what species of fruit Adam and Eve were eating. You have a VERY small data set for declaring "fact" about global warming since the majority of the data wasn't (and can no longer be) "collected." Plain and simple.
Obviously you support federal spending on these global warming studies and many of us here at OWBI.com do not. Support/believe what you wish but again, you have a small pail of facts in search of a problem statement. I disagree that global warming is indeed the problem statement. Pretty simple.
4. Your blathering about earth and it's age, and man somehow destroying shows how out to lunch you are. Climate change is not about man destroying the earth, that isn't going to happen. It is about how much man's impact is absorbed by the planet and how the natural cycles and processes of the planet deal with man's influence. Neal
You support Bovine Flatulent Global warming studies and
I am out to lunch!??
Wowser!
According to YOUR belief in the global warming theory(-ies), man is destroying the earth. It is one of the underlying themes of the whole pseudo-warming issue. Somehow all of this cow-farting methane and carbon dioxide-producing internal combustion processes are "killing the earth."
Your pseudo-theory supporters insist that somehow, every property-destroying typhoon, Hurricane Sandy, tornado in the midwest, flood, earthquake tremor, record high temperature recorded, extinction of the Golden Toad, polar ice cap shrinking 3 millimeter fluctuation of a given location's sea level, and on and on and on and on is all do to global warming and climate change. These events do indeed destroy the earth. Buildings collapseCrock-O-Chit,,, plain and simple. The alarmists supporting climate change support it for that very reason (they believe it is slowly killing the planet and all of its inhabitants).
Destruction and creation are natural phenomena but somehow you global warming guys think that man is not part of the earth's natural evolutionary process? We humans are animals too,,,, and we have been farting since we existed here. But I am not going to say my butt methane is creating a global phenomenon.