You have it exactly backwards. DNA is the explanation for evolution. It is a long, extensible, and rearrangeable molecule. DNA changes. Most changes are, however, insignificant. When adaptations in an existing form are expressed in its DNA, then there is a new form. In this case, the DNA change is significant. This is evolution.

It’s spelled adaptation. It is the definition of evolution.

You mixed a nutty idea like no global warming with an even nuttier idea like intelligent design and want me to comment on it? You believe that Scientific American, a science magazine founded in 1845, is a screed of the Lunatic Left? Is that your idea of truth and logic?

When you go for your flu shot next Winter, remember to tell the nurse that you want the vaccine to combat the intelligently designed virus rather than the evolved virus.

Why are banks essentially insolvent/bankrupt? Why are they crying now to have someone/anyone help them stay afloat by buying up equity stakes? Why do the central banks have to waste taxpayer money to lend to the failures? Unrestrained greed needs to be kept in check at ALL cost. Go back and read, sheep-raping ****face.

Where in my post did I state Hummers were disallowed, ****ing RETARD? I always knew you were an imbecile but this cements your coffin shut permanently.

nuff said

You are getting several events connected to the Little Ice Age confused. This was a traumatic period of Earth’s history. It began long before the 1700s. I suggest that you do a little research on the period prior to further commentary.

carstuff wrote (No. 77): … Anyway it goes over how the global temps are always changing due to 3 factors. One is earth tilt, which changes over time. One is average distance from sun, which changes over time, and I forget the 3rd. …

With all due respect, this is absolute nonsense. Is this what they teach you at Cranbrook? Let’s take a few things in order:

1. There are indeed variations in the Earth’s surface temperature. For the past 100 years, those variations are superimposed on a general upward trend.

2. The Earth axis tilt has not changed significantly in millions of years. One of the obvious consequences of the axis tilt are the locations of the Arctic Circle and Antarctic Circle. From the nearest Pole to one of these circles, there is 24 hours darkness during winter and 24 hours of daylight during summer. This gives rise to the seasons. Without the tilt, the entire surface of the Earth would have 12 hours daylight followed by 12 hours of darkness year round. There would be no seasons. We would have 365.25 days of temperate weather each year.

3. The Earth has an elliptical (oval-shaped) orbit about the Sun with the Sun at one focus of the ellipse. In the Northern Hemisphere, we are closer to the Sun during the Winter. The Southern Hemisphere is closer to the Sun during the Summer which they experience at the same time as the Northern Hemisphere’s Winter.

This guy don’t wanna battle, he’s shook
Cuz there ain’t no such things as half weight crooks
He’s scared to death, he’s scared to look
In his ****in’ yearbook
**** CRANBROOK!!!

lol

In the end “IF” gas continues to cost more, the CAFE average will be more quickly met than anyone realized. The consumer will buy the smaller more efficient vehicles and the average US fleet fuel economy will rise by the volume mix alone. Sure the government has footprint requirements but the basic law signed in by our congress just states 36 mpg, not how to get there. The footprint numbers were estimates to get their.

No, that is completely incorrect. The hole in the ozone layer is being fixed by the global switch from the chlorofluorocarbons which caused it. Don’t believe it? Go into any store that supplies refrigerants and try to buy R-12 or R-22.

As for global warming, it is real and it is not the consequence of natural climate cycles. Natural climate cycles require millennia to manifest. During that time, life on the planet has time to adapt to the changing climate. However, this man-induced global climate change began about 100 years ago and is proceeding rapidly. There is little time for life to adapt to the changes.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming is a political screed, not a science book. That’s why it is promoted in Human Events, but not in Scientific American.

Next option with short attention spans is brainwashing to get it stuck in our heads. GLOBAL WARMING.
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GLOBAL WARMING.

Just because home prices skyrocket doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a boatload of people that want to live there. It could also mean that Supply is constrained.

California’s problem isn’t so much Demand, only 3 of the Top 100 fastest growing counties are in California — that’s as many as Minnesota, and Georgia of all places has TWELVE on the list. California’s problem isn’t Demand, it’s a very tight supply. There’s not a lot of new homes being built and there’s very few on the market within reasonably commuting distance of where people want to live. That causes prices to rise.

As a point of fact, Denton County (where I presume “NoNameDenton1″ is from) has been one of the Top 5 fastest-growing counties in the Nation for the past several years.