Global Warming
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- reanimate0
"Today the global warming alarmists are the equivalent of the flat-Earthers," Cruz said. "You know it used to be it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier."
- How many here agree with him?reanimate
- What a helmet!utopian
- Ted Cruz is the real life Colbert. I say it's a stunt by Comedy CentralMiguex
- hard to tell with geo engineeringyurimon
- remember the whole solar system has changes in weather not just the earth supposedlyyurimon
- my ass has temperature changes. has nothing to do with what humans are doing to our air, land and oceans.inteliboy
- benfal990
First Great War of Water will occur around 2035
Drinkable water will be as precious as gold very soon
- just like by 2015 the sea would have risen 50 mt, but on a more serious note, if water is as valuable as gold, then golden showers will be a waste of money..georgesIII
- Just distill sea water. Not rocket science...set
- Not like 2/3 of the planet is covered in water ...dasohr
- inteliboy4
in a sick way I want the earth to flood, oceans to shift and the modern world to end - just to see how long these fuckwit deniers can hold their corporate funded pokerface facade.
- Deniers!!!! we should throw them in a volcano!!georgesIII
- this is why I love post apocalyptic moviesmoldero
- They'll just get in a big Ark and say it's "God's Will." They will never be wrong!ETM
- smug georges strikes again!inteliboy
- yurimon-4
- mg333
About a month ago we were out seeing my wife's family, and I got in a big conversation with my father in law, as usual, about politics. He hates Obama, hates democrats, and truly believes Fox News shows "the other side of the story (as truth)."
We got to talking about global warming; he pretty much believes that man has nothing to do with it simply by telling me that there's more ice than ever before in Antarctica (thus it isn't melting, those global warming isn't really happening.)
Luckily Vice News on HBO did an entire episode after that about the impacts on Antarctica. It was great to learn how the deniers skew facts about sea ice vs land ice - exactly what my father-in-law is falling for. Sea ice is cyclical. There's more in winter months formed from water already in the ocean. There's less when it melts, but there's no change in water volume for sea ice. Land ice that's melting, on the other hand, directly impacts the volume because it's water that wasn't in the ocean at first, but gets added it.
That's pretty much 3rd grade science at work there in terms of understanding what happens when you add more ice/water to water that was already there. So it's really frustrating and almost offensive to see it be politicized the way it is, especially by people who don't benefit in any direct way from the policies or stances their elected leaders take to deny what's happening.
And I'll even say this: let's say man doesn't have anything to do with it. It's just the global environment. The outcome is the same: water levels rise, coastlines change, populations are displaced, resources are affected, and people have to scramble to solve a likely unsolvable problem.
What would it hurt to think about how we'd tackle that problem? What would it hurt to hypothesize how the geography of Florida would change if ocean level rise gets bad in 20-30 years? What would it hurt to develop an action plan to deal with those affects?
- Learn to swim.dasohr
- I am more concerned about pollution n deforestation.yurimon
- he's right to hate on bama, but fox?yurimon
- Exactly Yurimon! Pollution and deforestation: what would it hurt us to take better care of this planet? How can that be politicized?mg33
- Monies bradasohr
- where do we start?yurimon
- you (gov/industry) start buy ditching old polluting technologies and using renewable energy.lowimpakt
- they say electric cars dont make a difference, plus big corps instead of curbing pollution just move to countries with no environmental protection laws.yurimon
- e-car biggest hoax since snake oildasohr
- your father in law sound like my mommoldero
- maybe sometimes ur mom is right. you ingrate. lolyurimon
- utopian3
- It's a liberal conspiracy made up by moIdero and friends.utopian
- "for the first time"? they made us cut our water usage A LOT in Calimoldero
- i'm moving to NV in a month... LOLdasohr
- but not golf courses right? they still get to water the fuck out of the grass correct?_niko
- ^ bingomoldero
- No meention of public water being sold to Nestle, fracking, and Vegas sucking them dry or Fukushima.teh
- ETM1
I fully believe in man-made climate change... as I can understand facts from that science thing people talk about.
But are we in a bad cycle on top of it/compounding it? When you look at the records for hottest and coldest years, they are mostly lumped together. Late 1800s and the 20s/30s (dustbowl era) showing some cyclical nature?
So... double-fucked?
- ETM1
LOL!
If I go a Google Image Search for '2015 Drought US', I get maps:
https://www.google.ca/search?q=2…If I do '2015 Drought Canada', nothing but hockey teams:
https://www.google.ca/search?q=2…- google 'glaciers retreat' then...I'm not good in biology but I think canada is more in the north.uan
- monoboy0
Michelle Bachmann, elected Republican in the House of Representatives claims global warming is a Muslim conspiracy...
http://dailycurrant.com/2015/01/…
People like this have a political voice in the U.S.?
Fuck me.
- yurimon-1
- China #1 thank you Apple, we love you long time.utopian
- yeah, just Apple... what is wrong with you?monospaced
- I get they manufacture there, but so does everyone, and soooo much worse stuff going on theremonospaced
- deathboy0
http://discover.monsanto.com/pos…
"It may come as a surprise, but the biggest single category of material found in America’s landfills is not plastic, or electronics, or your back issues of National Geographic. It is food.
Post-harvest food waste levels in the United States are about 121 billion pounds a year, according to a 2012 study commissioned by the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and the Food Marketing Institute (FMI). That represents about 390 pounds per person a year. And what’s worse, about two-thirds of it ends up in landfills, where it doesn’t just sit; it produces methane, a greenhouse gas more than 20 times as potent as carbon dioxide."
....Perhaps GMOs will help reduce this climate change people are fearing... unless fear of GMOs are greater... Dont think the article touches on GMOS (its monsanto), but considering GMOs is a lot about extending the life of food for less waste it could be a good thing. Wonder if earth saving hippies can compromise with big industry and evolve