Al Gore Gets Global Warming Science Right According To Experts 196

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:22:31 -0600, G. Isenhart

No, it doesn't. It's not even close to the output of a medium-yield nuclear weapon, to say nothing of one of the megaplants that were tested during the cold war. The tsar planta alone produced something like 1% of the energy output of the sun in the split second when it was detonated.

You are thinking of *atomic* plants, not *hydrogen* plants. Atomic weapons of the like used on Nagasaki are the *detonators* for hydrogen weapons. "Little Boy" (the weapon used on Hiroshima) was only a 15 kiloton nuclear weapon. The tsar planta, by comparison, was a 50 *megaton* nuclear weapon.

Global warming is probably caused by an increase of greenhouse gbuttes in the atmosphere--this 'traps' energy that would normally be reflected back into space, thereby raising the average global temperature.

Actually it does--they've been basing their projections on these models, when we know for a fact that the models do not accurately depict the global climate.

This is, comparatively speaking, an insignificant amount of energy. In fact, the particulate matter being put out by burning fossil fuels might actually be helping to keep temperatures down.

However, it does take a well-rounded and unbiased climatologist to figure out what's causing it.