CO2 has officially passed 400 PPM (for about the third time) and Phil Plait is hysterical.
An actual scientist might conclude that the lack of warming over the last 18 years as CO2 has risen, condemns global warming theory to the dustbin of junk science history. But then again, global warming has nothing to do with science.
There is no correlation between CO2 and global temperature.
co2_mm_mlo.txt
rss_monthly_msu_amsu_channel_tlt_anomalies_land_and_ocean_v03_3.txt
The origin (Etymology) of the word hysterical/hysteria:
For at least two thousand years of European history until the late nineteenth century hysteria referred to a medical condition thought to be particular to women and caused by disturbances of the uterus (from the Greek ?????? hystera “uterus”), such as when a newborn child emerges from the birth canal. The origin of the term hysteria is commonly attributed to Hippocrates, even though the term isn’t used in the writings that are collectively known as the Hippocratic corpus. The Hippocratic corpus refers to a variety of illness symptoms, such as suffocation and Heracles’ disease, that were supposedly caused by the movement of a woman’s uterus to various locations within her body as it became light and dry due to a lack of bodily fluids. One passage recommends pregnancy to cure such symptoms, ostensibly because intercourse will “moisten” the womb and facilitate blood circulation within the body. The “wandering womb” theory persisted in European medicine for centuries.
Phil is giving birth to disrupting thoughts these days (or still)? Or maybe he needs a good mind-f*** as recommend in the wiki excerpt above?
Time for a hysterectomy!
+1 (and there is sooo much more I could write)
Laugh, but the origins of the term are from hysteria.
We best keep pumping CO2 into the atmosphere or we will freeze to death! More CO2!
No wonder my damn grass is growing so fast.
Thanks, Steven for confronting pseudo-science with reality.
Thanks to Climategate, the entire structure of post-1945 pseudo-science will go to the dustbin of junk science history!