Ice age vs. global warming

[watchwolf49]

@drewder

Nearly 3,500 Days Since Major Hurricane Strike… Despite Record High CO2

Nearly 3,500 Days Since Major Hurricane Strike… Despite Record High CO2 « Roy Spencer, PhD

Click-bait … the article actually disputes the claims in the headline.

However, Dr Spencer’s article “Global Warming 101” is very well written and the first five paragraphs clearly explains the actual physics going on. It then decays into shameless self-promotion but I guess somebody has to pay the web-hosting bill.

[watchwolf49]

@Exapno_Mapcase

Sure, lots of damage and deaths have occurred in the past 10 years.

This is a subtle point, but all the damage and destruction from rising sea levels in the past 10,000 years is all currently … you know … underwater and not very well explored.

[drewder]

@watchwolf49

Click-bait … the article actually disputes the claims in the headline.

However, Dr Spencer’s article “Global Warming 101” is very well written and the first five paragraphs clearly explains the actual physics going on. It then decays into shameless self-promotion but I guess somebody has to pay the web-hosting bill.

You may like his column from a few days ago then “What Causes the Greenhouse Effect?”

[septimus]

@planet8788

There is ZERO significant data showing that weather is more extreme now than in the past. ZERO. (Aren’t we at a record for length of time without hurricanes hitting the USA?

Why the focus on hurricanes hitting the USA? (I’ve seen the same insistence in earlier threads.) Of the two propositions “Hurricanes are getting stronger” and “Hurricanes are hitting the USA”, is it not clear that the former is the one relevant to the question?

BTW, although the Northern Atlantic may have been relatively calm the last few years, there were seven Category-4 or -5 hurricanes in the Eastern Pacific in 2014, the most since 1993.

[Miller]

@John_W.Kennedy

“2000 years ago with the advent of agriculture” ¿Que?

Jesus invented farming. That’s a true fact; you can look it up.

[carnivorousplant]

@Miller

Jesus invented farming. That’s a true fact; you can look it up.

Jesus invented matzah.

[watchwolf49]

Women invented agriculture thousands of years before God invented the Earth.

[FXMastermind]

@Miller

Jesus invented farming. That’s a true fact; you can look it up.

No way. The corn god invented agriculture.

[septimus]

@John_W.Kennedy

“2000 years ago with the advent of agriculture” ¿Que?

To nitpick the nitpick: McEvedy and Jones estimate 4, 5, 7, 14, 27, 50, 170 as world population (in megapersons) for 10000, 5000, 4000, 3000, 2000, 1000, 0 BC respectively. Given these estimates, the effects of agriculture 2000 years ago would have dwarfed the effects during the Neolithic.

[watchwolf49]

@FXMastermind

No way. The corn god invented agriculture.

Only in MesoAmerica … the Beer Gods invented barley in MesoPotamia

[FXMastermind]

@watchwolf49

Only in MesoAmerica … the Beer Gods invented barley in MesoPotamia

It’s actually hard to keep up with all the gods and goddesses of alcohol

[carnivorousplant]

@FXMastermind

It’s actually hard to keep up with all the gods and goddesses of alcohol

Nonetheless, they are appreciated.
:rolleyes:

[watchwolf49]

@FXMastermind

It’s actually hard to keep up with all the gods and goddesses of alcohol

You’ll just have to apply yourself more, not like you have anything better to do … now do you … [wolfish grin]

[FXMastermind]

John Barleycorn Must Die

[GIGObuster]

@watchwolf49

Only in MesoAmerica … the Beer Gods invented barley in MesoPotamia

There is a nit to that, and I learned it from Cecil via a mention of corn in the classic ancient Roman series “I Clavdivs” (sic)

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/94/how-could-the-romans-use-corn-its-american

Dear Cecil:

Recently the “I, Claudius” series on public television had an episode where Claudius gains the popularity of the masses by building a harbor to bring more corn to Rome. The Encyclopedia Britannica also refers to this. But wasn’t corn domesticated in the Americas? And weren’t American plants in short supply in B.C. (Before Columbus) Rome? And wouldn’t it be fun to embarrass PBS and EB by pointing out that in Rome there was no corn?

— J.T., Baltimore

Dear J.:

There’s nothing I’d enjoy more than humiliating the two overrated institutions you mention, but I’m afraid you’re the only target in range at the moment. “Corn” comes from the Latin word for grain (granum), and through the ages it’s been used indiscriminately for whatever grain happens to predominate in a particular region.

In England, for example, corn is the word the natives apply to wheat. Up country a bit, in Scotland, the locals say “corn” when they mean “oats.” Naturally, when our British forebears jumped off the Mayflower and found the welcoming committee brandishing long green stalks with funny yellow things pointing out of them, “corn” was the first word that came to mind, and the name stuck in American English.

[FXMastermind]

Winwood fans might enjoy his latest upload of the 1970 classic

[FXMastermind]

@GIGObuster

There is a nit to that, and I learned it from Cecil via a mention of corn in the classic ancient Roman series “I Clavdivs” (sic)

The important thing is that the corn god started it all, not jesus