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- lowimpakt0
^ we also thought the world was flat but that doesn't mean our understanding of the sphericity of the earth is wrong.
you're using something like Historian's fallacy.
- bliznutty0
global warming blog...
it snowed this past weekend in denver.. loveland ski resort down the road had its earliest opening day in 40 years.. they are still doing coat programs in every major U.S. city for people because its cold in the winter. very fucking cold.. in fact i'm cold now.. why are you guys screamng global warming trying to pick my pocket?
- GeorgesII-1
sup khurram I don't know enough on that CFL, but I have them all around my house so a little googling gave me this, I repeat I don't know shit about the subject so no need to attack me.
http://www.snopes.com/medical/to…
- jimzyk0
that actor guy from that shit programme got mercury poisoning.
entourage,
not sure of his name,
but he was super infected with mercury after eating fish for over 20 years and no red meat,
he will explode soon enough and create a massive hole in the ozone layer shaped like the word entourage.its true i saw it on the wikipedias.
- Khurram0
ha yeah, i know, i was gonna make another post about raf saying that if you break a CFL bulb you need a bio-hazard ermegency response unit to take care of it LOL
But i didn't want to overload him...
- Even governments consider them hazardous waste.raf
- Even government pet BBC admits http://news.bbc.co.u…raf
- numbers-1
I don't get the argument about the Earth changing temperature in the past...
It's like saying people have gotten cancer before the invention of cigarettes, therefore smoking doesn't cause cancer.
- not at all. its simply saying that climate change has happened with man and without industrialization.deathboy
- Khurram0
to be fair, raf is also a man paranoid about the adding of fluride to our water supply... which is why he only ever drinks malt licquor
- and you are happy to have flouride in your drinking water? If so, you sir, are a fucking moron.set
- Luckily for him there's no water fluoridation in UK as far as I remember. London tap water tastes like shit though:)raf
- fuck you set, twat face. I'm more than happy, it protects my teef.Khurram
- Ah I see, keep on being a moron then son. All the best, Set.set
- Yep, you shouldn't ingest fluoride.Mimio
- Hombre_Lobo1
^what are you on about?
its not a 'thought' nor was it a theory, it actually happened. It was very very very very cold.
- utopian-1
- lowimpakt0
there will always be doubt with science - that is just the way it is. It is an evolutionary thing. we thought the world was flat etc.
It is how the doubt is handled is the important thing. I am of the mind that climate change skeptics have had their say and the onus is now on them to prove their position.
- utopian1
Global warming is epic, long-term study says
Global warming has propelled Earth's climate from one of its coldest decades since the last ice age to one of its hottest -- in just one century.
- numbers-1
I dunno...I always figured the fact that the Earth has changed temperatures over time is something every kid learns in first grade.
Like no one ever heard of the Ice Age before? Or knew that for most of the world's history, it was much warmer?
I guess I'm just a little confused when I hear people using that as an argument against climate change. Because it doesn't have any bearing on whether humans can change the temperature themselves by pumping loads of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Or indicate that everything will be just fine if the temperature does change drastically. After all the other characteristic of history is that lifeforms died out in large numbers, often corresponding to changes in the environment. So it seems like a strange parallel to draw IMO.
- utopian0
Earth's Axis Has Secretly Shifted
Whoops, we accidentally made the planet move: New research says human-caused climate change has accelerated the rate at which Earth’s rotational axis changes.
- ukit21
Sadly, the chance that humanity will avert catastrophic climate impacts has dropped sharply this year (see “The failed presidency of Barack Obama, Part 2“). And that means it is increasingly likely we face a world beyond 450 ppm atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, which in turn means we likely cross carbon cycle tipping points that threaten to quickly take us to 800 to 1000 ppm.
It is a world not merely of endless regional resource wars around the globe. It is a world with dozens of Darfurs and Pakistani mega-floods, of countless environmental refugees “” hundreds of millions by the second half of this century “” all clamoring to occupy the parts of the developed world that aren’t flooded or desertified.
In such a world, everyone will ultimately become a veteran, and Veteran’s Day and Memorial Day may fade into obscurity, as people forget about a time when wars were the exception, a time when soldiers were but a small minority of the population.
And if we don’t act swiftly and strongly to stop it, the worst impacts could last a long, long time (see NOAA stunner: Climate change “largely irreversible for 1000 years,” with permanent Dust Bowls in Southwest and around the globe and Nature Geoscience: ocean dead zones “devoid of fish and seafood” are poised to expand and “remain for thousands of years”).
So when does this start to happen?
Thomas Fingar, “the U.S. intelligence community’s top analyst,” sees it happening by the mid-2020s:
By 2025, droughts, food shortages and scarcity of fresh water will plague large swaths of the globe, from northern China to the Horn of Africa.
For poorer countries, climate change “could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back,” Fingar said, while the United States will face “Dust Bowl” conditions in the parched Southwest“¦.
He said U.S. intelligence agencies accepted the consensual scientific view of global warming, including the conclusion that it is too late to avert significant disruption over the next two decades.The conclusions are in line with an intelligence assessment produced this summer that characterized global warming as a serious security threat for the coming decades.
Floods and droughts will trigger mass migrations and political upheaval in many parts of the developing world.