Global warming, anyone?

[68Charger]

Throwing money at a problem doesn't solve anything.

it solves many of YOUR problems if you can somehow manage to be the one who is the recipient of the money being thrown...

[hip55]

[roberth]

Well, thank-you for mentioning a few more Stuart, but I'm not blaming everybody. But the oil industry is a carbon-based industry, and the world is a carbon based economy. A lot of people just throw up there hands and say there is no cure for global warming, so why do anything about it?
The answer is yes: we can cure global warming and cheaply as well;
by harnessing the power of the stars which is fusion power.
You were right about me on your post a couple of month's ago. Yes indeed, that foofighter I saw that night was a UFO. And since that night that foofighter, which had a fusion plasma shield surrounding the starship{approx. 1,000 feet in diameter} has given me faith that a fusion based economy is indeed possible with an unlimited energy source such as seawater.
If the space aliens have that kind of fusion power, I have the faith and confidence that the human race here on Earth will eventually have it here as well. So now you know: I'm not the type of person who throws up his hands and say's "it can't be done," because I KNOW it can be done!

Yo ERNO, you're using a computer, it is made from plastic which comes from, oh my gawd!!!, OIL.

You ERNO need to go first, when you start living in a mud hut, walking around barefoot, away from civilization, then you'll have leg to stand on. Until then you're just another hypocrite in a long line of hypocrites. Oh and stop drinking the bong water, the aliens need it for their fusion plasma shield.

[Irving]

This is why talking to people is a way better idea than just shooing them away. This thread struck gold today!

[roberth]

it solves many of YOUR problems if you can somehow manage to be the one who is the recipient of the money being thrown...

Most notably...algore.

[TFOGGER]

In a survey, which was financed by a grant to Stanford from the National Science Foundation, 1000 randomly selected adults were interviewed by phone

Just remember that statistically, 50% of those polled were below average in intelligence(FACT!).

The opinions of "randomly selected adults" are NOT fact. They are NOT science.

Statistics don't lie, but liars can use statistics to prove almost anything through backwards logic.

[funkfool]

Man... We need more pirates..

[68Charger]

Quote:
Originally Posted by 68Charger
it solves many of YOUR problems if you can somehow manage to be the one who is the recipient of the money being thrown...

Most notably...algore.Most notably...algore.

Thus... The Lear Jet!

[ERNO]

"Researchers have recently been startled to see big changes unfold in both Greenland and Anarctica.
As a result of recent calculations that take the changes into account, many scientists now say that the sea level is likely to rise perhaps three feet by 2100-an increase that should it come to pass, would pose a threat to coastal regions the world over.
A large majority of climate scientists argue that heat trapping gases are almost certainly playing a role in what is happening to the worlds land ice. They add that the lack of polices to limit omissions raising the risk that the ice will go into irreversible decline before this century is out, a development that would make a three-foot rise in the sea look trival.
Melting ice is by no means the only sign that the earth is warming. Therometers on land, in the sea and aboard satellites show warming. Heat waves, flash floods and other extreme weather events are increasing. Plants are blooming earlier, coral reefs are dying and many changes are afoot that most climate scientists attribute to global warming.
Satellite and other measurements suggest that thru the 1990's, Greenland was gaining about as much ice through snowfall as it lost to the sea every year. But since then, the warmer water has invaded the fjords, and air temperatures in Greeland have increased markedly. The overall loss of ice seems to be accelerating, an ominous sign given that the island contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by more than 20 feet.
But at all times in the past, when the shoreline migrated, humans either not evolved yet or consisted of primitive bands of hunter-gatherers who could readily move. By the middle of this century, a projected nine billion people will inhabit the planet, with many millions of them living within a few feet of sea level.
To a majority of climate scientists, the question is not whether the earth's land ice will melt in response to the greenhouse gases those people are generating, but whether it will happen to fast for society to adjust.
Recent research suggests that the volume of the ocean may have stable for thousands of years as human civilization has developed. But it began to rise in the 19th century, around the same time that advanced countries began to burn large amounts of coal and oil.
The sea has risen about 8 inches since then, on average. That sounds small, but on a gently sloping shoreline, such an increase is enough to cause substantal eroision unless people intervene. Goverments have spent billions in recent decades pumping sand onto disapearing beaches and trying to stave off the loss of coastal wetlands.
Satellite evidence suggests that the rise of the sea accelerated late in the 20th century, so that the level is now increasing a little over an inch a decade, on average-about a foot per century. Another is that most of the extra heat being trapped by human greenhouse emissions is going to not to warm the atmosphere but to warm the ocean, and as it warms, the water expands.
Calculations about the effect of a three-foot increase suggest that it would cause shorline erosion to accelerate markedly. In places that once flooded only in a large hurricane, the higher sea would mean that a routine storm could do the trick. In the United States, an estimated 5,000 square miles of dryland and 15,000 square miles of wetlands would be at risk of permanent inundation, though the actual effect would depend on on how much money was spent protecting the shoreline.
The worst effects, however, would probably occur in areas where land is sinking even as the sea rises. Some of the worlds major cities, especially those built on soft sediments at the mouths of great rivers, are in that situation.
Storm surges battering the world's coastlines every few years would almost certainly force people to flee inland. but it is hard to see where the displaced will go, especially in Asia, where hudge cities- and even entire countries, notably Bangladesh-are at risk.
Figuring out whether Antarctica is losing ice over all is essential, because that ice sheet contains enough water to raise global sea level by nearly 200 feet. The parts that appear to be destabilizing contain water sufficient to raise it 10 feet.
Climate scientists note that while the science of studying ice may be progressing slowly, the world's emissions of heat trapping gases are not. They worry that the way things are going, extensive melting of land ice may become inevitable before political leaders find a way to limit the gases, and before scientists even realize such a point of no return has been passed."
"The past clearly shows that sea-level rise is getting faster and faster the warmer it gets," Dr. Rahmstorf said. "Why should that process stop? If it gets warmer, ice will melt faster."


NYT INTERNATIONAL Sunday, November 14, 2010

[Irving]

What about the continental rift in the middle of the Atlantic that is growing Iceland by 1 inch each year. That is a force that is constantly displacing water with land. What should we do about it? Develop policies to slow the convection of the Earth perhaps?