I feel safer already!

[Onion Eater]

Climate change even worse than predicted: expert

"Tropical forests are essentially inflammable. You couldn't get a fire to burn there if you tried. But if they dry out just a little bit, the result can be very large and destructive wildfires. We don't want to cross a critical threshold where this massive release of carbon starts to run on autopilot," said Field, a professor of biology and of environmental Earth system science at Stanford University.

Scary stuff! Good thing Professor Field is on the job!

Unfortunately, a quick trip to the dictionary raises even more cause for concern:

Inflamable Adjective. Easily ignited and capable of burning rapidly; flammable.

Seriously, I don't want to downplay the threat to the environment. It probably is true that increased forest fires (even in those inflammable tropical regions) and the melting of arctic tundra may accellerate global warming. But I couldn't help poking some fun at Professor Field. They sure do talk good English at Stanford! It are a required subject, you know.

 

[PLC1]

Climate change even worse than predicted: expert

"Tropical forests are essentially inflammable. You couldn't get a fire to burn there if you tried. But if they dry out just a little bit, the result can be very large and destructive wildfires. We don't want to cross a critical threshold where this massive release of carbon starts to run on autopilot," said Field, a professor of biology and of environmental Earth system science at Stanford University.

Scary stuff! Good thing Professor Field is on the job!

Unfortunately, a quick trip to the dictionary raises even more cause for concern:

Inflamable Adjective. Easily ignited and capable of burning rapidly; flammable.

Seriously, I don't want to downplay the threat to the environment. It probably is true that increased forest fires (even in those inflammable tropical regions) and the melting of arctic tundra may accellerate global warming. But I couldn't help poking some fun at Professor Field. They sure do talk good English at Stanford! It are a required subject, you know.

The unfortunate substitution of "inflammable" for "non flammable" will, of course, bring on a chorus of ridicule from the wishful thinkers who say that global climate change is not real.




Here is another source to back that one up.

Perhaps the least expected encounter was with a scientist from the US, Foster Brown. He's worked in the region for many years now and was writing a report on the wildfires that sprang up in unusually large numbers in 2005. The fires coincided with a period of very low rainfall in Acre province - drought, in fact, with rain virtually absent for months.

I pinched myself to remember where I was - in the middle of the Amazon basin, a region that's a byword for the verdant ebullience of nature, in something that's called, let us remember, rainforest.

I spent two years in the rain forest in Bolivia, in part of the Amazon Basin, and I can assure you t hat it would have been impossible to start a wildfire there using the best techniques available to pyromaniacs.

It's possible that Richard Black visited a drier part, but the part I know could not have been burned up with gasoline. It was simply too wet.

 

[PredFan]

Global Warming is a complete scam.

Al Gore's hair is inflammable, but his brain has not a spark.

 

[PLC1]

Global Warming is a complete scam.

Al Gore's hair is inflammable, but his brain has not a spark.

Does that mean you're of the climate change isn't happening at all school of thought, or the it is happening, but isn't anthropogenic school of thought?