Wow, that was really dumb. So, he proved global warming is man made because we have more man made carbon?
Science is getting too easy. . On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > From http://www.jamespowell.org/Blog/Blog.php?id=3223808278669646293 > > Are Humans Causing Global Warming? Ask Floyd Landis. > Sat, Apr 21 2012 11:30 | Permalink > Blog Post for Columbia University Press > > The earth is warming. But can we be sure that humans are the cause? > Yes. The same way cycling officials were sure that biker Floyd Landis > doped with synthetic testosterone while winning the 2006 Tour de > France. > > With Lance Armstrong retired and most of the other top riders expelled > for illegal drug use, Landis had become one of the favorites. He was > leading when in stage 16 he fell to eleventh place. Then, just as his > chances of winning seemed dashed, Landis won the next stage going away > and went on to ride the Champs-Élysées in the winners yellow jersey. > > A few days later, Landiss team announced he had failed a test for > banned steroids. Landis appealed the ban, raised an estimated $1M for > his defense, and wrote a 300-page book titled, Positively False: the > Real Story of how I won the Tour de France. > > After years of denial, in 2010 Landis reversed himself and admitted > that from 2002 through 2006 he had used a grab-bag of banned > substances and methods. Why did he finally have to give up his denial? > Because the carbon isotope test proved beyond reasonable doubt that he > had doped with synthetic testosterone. > > Testosterone is mostly carbon. Synthetic testosterone is made entirely > from plants, which have a different carbon isotope ratio than our > environment overall. The carbon in Landiss body had the distinctive > plant ratio, proving beyond reasonable doubt that he had doped with > synthetic testosterone. > > So how do scientists use the method to confirm that humans are causing > global warming? > > Since 1800, CO2 in the earths atmosphere has risen 40% and because of > the greenhouse effect, warmed the planet. The obvious source of the > added carbon is the 330 billion tons of carbon that burning fossil > fuels has added to the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution. Yet > global warming deniers deny this obvious fact. Well then, lets prove > it. > > First, coal, oil, and natural gas also come from plants and also have > the distinctive carbon isotope ratio of plants. As CO2 in the > atmosphere has built up steadily, its isotopic composition has shifted > just as steadily in the direction of plant carbon. That tells us the > added carbon is coming from plants. But what kind of plants? That > question we can also answer. > > One carbon isotope, C14, is radioactive and dies away to undetectable > levels in 50,000 years or so. Fossil fuels, being millions of years > old, have no C14 left. Adding ancient carbon should have lowered the > proportion of C14 in the atmosphereand it has. For the last 50 years, > as the amount of carbon in the atmosphere has increased, its C14 ratio > has fallen steadily. > > Just as the carbon isotopes prove that Landis doped his body, they > prove beyond reasonable doubt that humans are doping the atmosphere > with ancient plant carbon, carbon from fossil fuels. > > Unlike people, isotopes do not lie. > James L. Powell > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Sam <sammyc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> None of your silly articles prove global warming is man made and most >> of the handful of people that wrote the multiple articles that they >> also reviewed have admitted global warming as they defined it has >> stopped. Sixteen years ago. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:359505 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
