1, 2, 10, 3, 4, 5,6,7,8

What’s the trend? If you said,”there is NO increase”then you’re crazy. No one would look at the above and say, “there has been no increasing trend since the third number”

But that’s what the deniers try to do about climate change: just because the Extremely Strong El Nino year of 1998 might not have had its record broken (yet) does not mean the trend of warming has not continued

Of course the temperatures are not as simple as the above numerical sequence, but the false logic is the same: a lack of broken record does Not mean the trend hasn’t continued going up, up, up, on average, it only means that one year’s record has not (yet) been broken.

As if that isn’t enough to destroy the global warming denier’s logic, there’s also fact: NASA analyzed with additional data and 2005 either matches or is HIGHER in temperature than 1998. Ooops, another fact for the deniers to brush under the rug.They also have to hide other things under the rug (the ocean acidification that shows the damage from burning fossil fuels, is already now today horrible on the oceans, even if the temperatures were not going up…which they are)

Unfortunately, global warming will not save us from peak oil, and peak oil will not save us from global warming (for more complex reasons including idiotic politicians responding to peak oil by using more tar sands, more coal, etc, as well as more complex reasons)

Bottom-line: lots of people want to deny the reality of Peak Oil (and peak Natural Gas in north america) and lots of people want to deny human-caused climate destabilization (so called global warming) partly ignorance, but also partly ideology that just doesn’t like those facts: no amount of evidence is enough for them since they just Don’t Want to believe it. They don’t even want to believe simple arithmetic (which shows that even if we didn’t have global warming, you can’t have our economic system continue for many decades more, even Buffet knows that and does not say it directly but pointed out that Dow would be at over 1,000,000 in the year 2100 if it just grew by a few percent per year this century…It will be long before 2100 when we hit harder limits to our exponential-growth-forever model of economics..meanwhile, be frugal, make some money in the most moral, least damaging way you can from peak oil and other examples, and take care of yoruself and family, later you can help others as we built a less destructive economic system: we don’t be able to go back to this one and do NOt want to go back to the other failed economic systems, we will have to create a brand new one that is build from the bottom up and is steady-state,not based on eternal exponential growth the way the USSR’s system, and ours, are both,very similarly, addicted to exponential growth forever) Sorry to pack so much counter-conventional info but those are the realities, do you own analysis and research and they are inescapable.

Greg, ignore the “we-tell-you-what-to-think trend line” that has been drawn on your chart, and you will see that temperatures were MUCH higher in 1998 than they are currently. In fact, a new line could be drawn from that huge peak in ‘98 to the big trough now, showing that the current decade-long cooling trend. Your chart actually wholly proves the validity of my earlier statement that temperatures have fallen for 10 years.

Dude, what are you smoking?

Check out average global temp. Clearly rising for the last 30 years.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7722256@N05/2604836403/

Looking at the charts technically, oil printing in the 20’s at some point in the next few months wouldn’t surprise me. I think THAT will be an excellent buying opportunity, at least for an intermediate term trade.

Funny how nobody’s talking about “peak oil” anymore. But you still hear about global warming, despite the fact that we just had the coldest winter in decades, even though atmospheric CO2 *increased* yet again — which pretty much disproves warming theory. Temperatures have actually fallen for almost 10 years now, so you would think they’d give it up… But then, global warming has a lot of support from the powers-that-be, because it’s a great way to convince people to give up their freedom and give gov’t more control over the economy and thus more power.

Otherwise, we’re all screwed. But that’s the trap I always see in doomsday predictions: they take current trends and extrapolate THOSE things for the next umpteen years; they generally fail to take into account the fact that markets adjust.

For a sense of what how special oil is in relation to renewables, study the piece on renewables in the IEEE Spectrum magazine of 1/07. It is viewable at:
Joules, BTUs, Quads—Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off [Oil vs renewables comparison]
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jan07/4820

The energy in a 42 gallon barrel of crude oil is roughly equal to 40 hour weeks of human labor for 12 years. We are going to miss it as it disappears. You pay more for bottled water at the gas station than you do for $3 a gallon gasoline.

For a sense of what how special oil is in relation to renewables, study the piece on renewables in the IEEE Spectrum magazine of 1/07. It is viewable at:
Joules, BTUs, Quads—Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off [Oil vs renewables comparison]
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jan07/4820

The energy in a 42 gallon barrel of crude oil is roughly equal to 40 hour weeks of human labor for 12 years. We are going to miss it as it disappears. You pay more for bottled water at the gas station than you do for $3 a gallon gasoline.

Yes, I’ve read all that stuff about peak oil. It rings true, but the technology for alternative energy is here. It is just suppressed by the evil, greedy oil companies. In oil company grant reliant colleges, they teach that perpetual motion machines are impossible due to the law of conservation of energy. However, this law assumes that the universe is a fixed size gas tank of energy. However, the Hubble space telescope proves that the universe is expanding. This means the gas tank is getting bigger. As a matter of fact, you are sitting on top of a perpetual motion machine right now, the Earth. The earth revolves around the sun using an oscillating magnetic-electric-gravitational field that interacts with the sun in the sea of energy that is the universe. Inventors have invented and re-invented the perpetual motion machine, but this technology has been suppressed by the multibillion dollar greed that is the auto-millitary-oil-industrial complex. A couple of years ago, a Nevada or Arizona congresswoman had a petition going that sought the release of the classified energy patents that were classified due to (supposedly) national security reasons. Whatever became of her? I couldn’t find her in my google searches.

In order for the magnet-gravity-electric oscillation motor to benefit mankind and prevent peak oil catastrophes, some selfless soul has to present the world with the technology without financial benefit by not seeking a patent. The bible says that money is the root of all evil. This is why money is evil. There is no profit in saving humanity, so nobody does this.

Global warming, however, is liberal bunk. Read any geology text and it will tell you that the earth goes through natural heating and cooling cycles. As a matter of fact, Greenland is called that because it used to be really green, not full of glaciers like it is now. I invite you to read about the “Little Ice Age”. There was global cooling and an impending ice age until man used fossil fuels and caused a reversal of the cooling process. Industrialization ended the “Little Ice Age.” The earth is just going back in time to the days when Greenland was really green. Global warming is humanity’s savior from another ice age, not the monster the liberal technocrats want you to believe it is. If it weren’t for peak oil and the national security risk of dependence on foreign oil, I’d say, burn more fossil fuels to bring on more global warming! Hooray for global warming!

Live long and prosper,
TK.

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Sock away some gold/silver. The US dollar is going into the dumper.

Even our military forces (oil protection forces) are getting concerned about energy supplies…a very bad sign.

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The biggest problem is that we are too complacent about present situations. Without any real actions taken, nature will catch up on us sooner or later.