Political Interference on Global Warming: Welch's Questions

[bball1003]

Welsh is SUCH A DOUCHE



[bball1003]

You guys dont understand, Mr.Cooney answered each of these questions perfectly. The Finest man I have ever met.

[kimfeilgood]

There has been lots of pink skies recently in the DFW area in Texas..we have alot of gas drilling.

[ORACLE063]

The very idea that you cannot question global warming puts it in the same league as a cult or religion..... Al gore made a movie so it must be true.... If you cannot debate scientific facts ... than it isnt science...

FACT my 30 minute commute to work has less of an impact than a 30 minute shower ... water vapor > Carbon ...So i guess there should be a tax on my daily showers.. im a carbon based life form ... i love the stuff.

[TRUMPHENT]

A 30 minute shower? You must be really clean or have a shower fetish. Ever see CO2 precipitation on earth? I haven't. Did you know that H2O is a trace gas? How about that CO2 absorbs IR in wavelengths that are not absorbed by H2O?

Climatology is a science. There is a cult of denial of the facts presented by the science.

[ORACLE063]

Secondly u global warming cultists need to take a powder... carbon will not be the fall of man.... noxious chemicals will be.... again as in the case with "killer carbon" Large scale corporate interests are to blame... last i checked i haven't dumped any toxic waste anywhere.

[howe92]

Hahahaha Cooney...

[Octorod]

Squirm

[marcusborg83]

it's all bogus, the sun is getting hoter, all plantets in the solar system are undergoing global warming. When the temparature rises the oceans release more C02, and even that water is the biggest greenhouse-gas

[ORACLE063]

Yes, the planets are going through climatic change as well this is true.. the suns activity as of now is actually lessening.. Though your comment is totally wrong about water being the biggest greenhouse gas... Water vapor is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon but BOTH ARE LOW on the greenhouse scale. Methane is a major one but that is nothing new.. at one point in the earths history the atmosphere was actually made up of more methane. Pink skied earth.

[TRUMPHENT]

You don't want to be around when the sky turns pink. The sun's TSI has been flat for over thirty years. Orbit variances have more effect on other planets climate. Here, they are called Milankovich cycles. They are what initiated ice ages and interglacials. CO2 is believed to be a positive feedback in the interglacial warming.

Pink Skies! Are you one of those End 'o Times nutters?

[ORACLE063]

No before the cyanobacteria kicked up our oxygen levels o0n earth the sky was prodominantly methane. Methane shows up as pink.

End times? the only end times i am concerned about is my own... lol

[marshalljedediah]

there are always those who will tell you that the scientists are wrong .. and don't believe your eyes ... or your common sense .. that cows make more green house gas than a 400 hp automobile going 150 mph ... hahaha ... and what about jet airliner liners ... i tell you ... these people must believe that china and india are not industrializing .. hahaha .. hey go fly a kite .. and listen to rushie, shawnie, annie, and drudgie ... join the lineup of gaga idiots.

[sundropdave]

This Philip Cooney guy is a total retard

[michaelbobrien]

Mr. Cooney's one of the nicest guys ever.

[thatbamma]

Sounds like Welch has an idea in his head, suported by some scientists and not by others, and he doesn't like anyone questioning it. What a snobby guy he is too.

[cbrock7]

Cooney was speechless several times from Welch's questions. Me thinks the guy was trying to weasel himself out of trouble. Especially with the final questions raised about the deletion. Cooney was busted.

[quicksite]

This questioning - dialing out the prevarication and speechifying from witnesses, finally provides the kind of oversight Congress should have been exercising for the past 6 years. Similraly, Waxman cut through Toensing's attempts at "running the clock" instead extracting from her specific answers to specific questions.

Had this format been used by Congress every time Condi Rice spun-off into her long contextual time-eating rhetoric, we surely would be better off as a country.

[schratboy]

Human-caused global warming is a myth and virtually unprovable beyond a reasonable doubt. Heck, oceanographers haven't gotten their arms around all the atmospheric dynamics to make reasonable predictions about hurricanes and we're to believe them on warming? It's pure BS and an excuse to interpose further bureaucracy on people's lives.

[michaelispan]

wtf

[easymike]

Provable as long as you get all of your scientific data from four month old Faux News reports. Even Faux News and Puddinhead George have abandoned the stupidity of global warming denial. But you, schratboy, are welcome to continue wallowing in your delusion as you seem to enjoy doing from thread to thread. You go schratboy! Keep your chin up as you circle the bowl. Reality will sink in one day ... maybe.

[schratboy]

Do you bleat out Fox News to every point you disagree with? Seriously, if all you can do is disparage Bush and try to counter-attack you're attempts are really rather pathetic. You're like a hamster running in a cage, running faster and faster and believe you're getting somewhere.

[easymike]

schratboy I merely point out those who once supported your idiocy but have since recanted in the face of superior evidence. You're obviously content to continue pursuing the fallacy on your own. Who's the hamster on a treadmill? (BTW, notice the correct usage of your and you're sparky?)

[longshot9999]

You missed the whole point ---ratboy. The person that is testifying is bureaucrat making a feeble attempt in explaining why he edited a scientfic report. The only qualification this guy has is that he is a former oil association lobbyist. Maybe you work for the oil, gas and auto interests. Ford Motor company is against more efficient engines.

[schratboy]

Putz, are you a scientist? Are you a talk show host. If not, stuff a sock in it.

[longshot9999]

Ptuz, you are obviously a scientist, maybe you should be helping the moron on the stand. If you can't, stuff your dirty sock up your mouth.

[sundropdave]

Are you a creationist too schratboy?