Global warming, anyone?

[Chase723]

On another note, I'm always a fan of not pumping extraneous crap into the atmosphere/environment. Pullution is a way bigger problem than CO2...we exhale CO2 and plants turn it into food.

[68Charger]

some of you seem to be assuming that these are well-intentioned plans to fix things us humans have broken... with all things global warming, I apply the 1st rule of politics- "follow the money" People like Al Gore have forever made me associate "global warming" with "scam"

on yet another note, I've got to let funkfool know that he freaked me out a bit raising this nearly 2 year old post from the dead... I thought someone hacked my account, and was posting spam with my username...

[roberth]

And 2 years later global warming is still a scam. algore got rich and the rest of us suffered under this bullshit.

[funkfool]

Holy thread resurection 68Charger!!
Didn't mean to freak you out man...
I just figure - if there is a thread already generally about what I'm gonna post... might as well keep it together...

Anyway... the lying autonomons have resorted to automation...
This is the same as shouting down your opposition because you cannot win with facts and a logical argument.

[lebru]

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/fea...aice-melt.html

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._3294531_n.jpg

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...of-global-warm

http://www.icr.org/article/evidence-for-global-warming/

Sea levels have risen ~10ft this year.

Global warming isn't a myth. Although the Earth does go through periodic warming periods, this particular period is being accelerated by Humans. It's a chain reaction. The snow melts, releases co2, inefficient power plants also produce co2. co2 makes the earth get warmer, thus more snow melts, thus more co2....ect ect ect. Its not a myth, its fact. Not to mention, the worlds tropical rainforest population has dropped, which was a huge absorber of co2. Mix all that together its like drinking a four loko, doing a line of coke, and chugging a 40.

The bolded is the human part of the equation that wasn't around...say...5000 years ago? Its not a scam, there is far more evidence suggesting it happens than evidence suggesting its bullshit. The only excuse people think to come up with its bullshit is because Al Gore's movie....well fuck Al Gore and the "liberal media and scientists"...even without him it would still be a relevant truth that it has happened.

[68Charger]

Sea levels have risen ~10ft this year.

besides any arguing over who/what is responsible for any possible warming trend (part of a natural cycle, possibly), please back this specific statement up with FACTS

[lebru]

besides any arguing over who/what is responsible for any possible warming trend (part of a natural cycle, possibly), please back this specific statement up with FACTS

you clearly don't know anything about the process of global warming, let alone the scientific method. Allow me to make it about as easy as a coloring book to understand.

The earth has warming cycles.
We are currently in a warming cycle. There is no doubting that. (It is how nature works, it has happened throughout history as soil tests will show. Most of these are available through academic journals).
Warming cycles produce co2 trapped in permafrost, releasing it into the atmosphere.
Human factor has been proven to accelerate the natural course of the warming by several factors.
1)Massive dirty energy plants(usually in upcoming 3rd world countries, since the US generally has cleaner burning coal.
2)Less rain forest density, meaning less absorption of co2 from the atmosphere.
3) Unregulated burning of fossil fuels, without paying the costs for damaging the environment (you can't drive a car without insurance, why should you be able to burn fuel without paying for the damage its caused)

So, more co2 (from both human and natural causes) + less absorption = more warming of the earth. Hence, sea levels rising, ice shelfs melting at a far accelerated rate.


Its funny because, I don't have to do in-depth research to find evidence of it happening, and yet you can't find any evidence to prove that it isn't happening. It has already been proven, you now have to disprove it.

More evidence that Greenlands density (In case you weren't aware, Greenland is largely permafrost, and contains huge amounts of trapped co2), as well as rising ocean levels

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0323161819.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0713101412.htm
http://www.agu.org/journals/ABS/2010/2010GL042460.shtml
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Reso...8081279213064/

This image, created with sea surface height data from the Topex/Poseidon and Jason-1 satellites, shows how ocean surface heights have changed from 1993 to now.

Now, Global Warming isn't the kill all for the world. Yes it is happening, but we have already adapted to it and are already reversing the effects. The next step on the course of the earth is a magnetic polar shift, which were are long overdue for. If you actually studied science, it would make sense. But it seems like you have no background at all in Biology, let alone Atmospheric Sciences. Let me guess, you also believe the earth was created ~6000 years ago, in 4004bc, the lunar landings never happened, evolution is false, and that all muslim's are evil?

[Irving]

I don't buy that the ocean levels have risen 10 feet just this year. Every other time I've heard about ocean levels rising, the stats say 10 in in 100's of years, not one year.

Aren't all the cities in Florida under 500' in elevation? A 10' increase in sea level would wipe out places like Italy, Louisiana, and Florida.

[68Charger]

I don't buy that the ocean levels have risen 10 feet just this year. Every other time I've heard about ocean levels rising, the stats say 10 in in 100's of years, not one year.

Aren't all the cities in Florida under 500' in elevation? A 10' increase in sea level would wipe out places like Italy, Louisiana, and Florida.

My main point- he leads with some URL links, that are all based on the SAME FLAWED/SKEWED DATA, then his contribution to the post is lead with a total bullshit statement.. hard to take anyone seriously when they don't take their facts seriously...

lebru, your post is so full of fail I don't know where to begin-

seriously, at least act like you've researched it for longer than it took for you to watch "An Inconvenient Truth"

[ronaldrwl]

"Global warming, anyone?"

Yes, please