Author Topic: Global Warming... is THIS how we'll perish? (Read 18600 times)

Maverick · « **Reply #180 on:** March 26, 2006, 03:02:25 PM »

I wonder who is reponsible for all the other global warming cycles the earth has gone through.

Angus · « **Reply #181 on:** March 26, 2006, 05:50:51 PM »

Answer:
Earth itself. Herself....whatever.

And for this one? Us.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #182 on:** March 26, 2006, 06:32:39 PM »

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Originally posted by Angus
Answer:
Earth itself. Herself....whatever.

And for this one? Us.

Its very arrogant to think humans alone are causing global warming.

NattyIced · « **Reply #183 on:** March 26, 2006, 06:51:54 PM »

It's not arrogant, though, to believe we are accelerating it.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #184 on:** March 26, 2006, 07:03:16 PM »

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Originally posted by NattyIced
It's not arrogant, though, to believe we are accelerating it.

Trees are accelerating it too.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4604332.stm

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The amount of the gas produced increased when the air was warmer, and when there was more sunlight. The paper estimates that this unexplained phenomenon could account for 10-30% of the world's methane emissions. "We now have the spectre that new forests might increase greenhouse warming through methane emissions rather than decrease it by sequestering carbon dioxide."

NattyIced · « **Reply #185 on:** March 26, 2006, 07:59:13 PM »

Then our destroying the rain forest is win/win. Right?

Hangtime · « **Reply #186 on:** March 26, 2006, 08:50:48 PM »

Henh. Sitting 4 miles in from a barrier island on the atlantic seaboard just 9 feet above sea level... with 3.5 million other idiots within 50 miles of me in either direction.

I think I'll wait around here with my thumb up my bellybutton and see if two class 5 hurricanes in 12 months on this planet is a coincidence.

Maverick · « **Reply #187 on:** March 26, 2006, 08:51:31 PM »

OK. Good 'ol mom earth was responsible for the last global warming but somehow we are responsible for this one. Exactly how do you figure we took responsibility for a cycle that the earth has gone through numerous times without man's help?

If we are reponsible for the rapidity of the warming cycle, how long did the earth take on the last 2 it was responsible for? Secondly who took the measurements and where did they take them? Were they in farenhiet or celcius? Which calandar did they use? Did the researchers during the last 2 cycles post their data?

NattyIced · « **Reply #188 on:** March 26, 2006, 08:54:49 PM »

You talking to me Maverick?

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #189 on:** March 26, 2006, 09:51:15 PM »

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Originally posted by Hangtime
Henh. Sitting 4 miles in from a barrier island on the atlantic seaboard just 9 feet above sea level... with 3.5 million other idiots within 50 miles of me in either direction.

I think I'll wait around here with my thumb up my bellybutton and see if two class 5 hurricanes in 12 months on this planet is a coincidence.

There were 21 tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic in 2003, and 21 in 1933.

It's not a coincidence at all but no statistical correlation has been made between cyclone frequency and strength and the global warming phenomenon. A correlation does seem to exist with a hurricane cycle and a solar cycle.

Hangtime · « **Reply #190 on:** March 26, 2006, 10:39:11 PM »

Yer average cat 2-3 is fairly routine.. I've been through one here and one in Florida.. beasties to be sure but not the threat a Cat 5 is. And, seems that big bastard hurricanes are in style for Mother Nature lately.

Henh.

Gonna be an interesting atlantic storm season.

beet1e · « **Reply #191 on:** March 27, 2006, 01:22:55 AM »

Angus - Charlotte and Susan! I like that.

Charlotte is never going to accept the data you have advanced with regard to melting glaciers, because there are no glaciers in Texas. And Susan doesn't care if the glaciers are melting - as long as unleaded costs less than $3/gallon.

As you have pointed out, the warming, and resultant glacier meltdown is an established fact. It's convenient for the naysayers to blame ALL of this on Mother Nature, but the meltdown is happening even faster than predicted - at a faster rate than ever before? Hmmm, I wonder if those six billion tonnes of CO2 we release annually have anything to do with it.
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deSelys · « **Reply #192 on:** March 27, 2006, 02:28:36 AM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Its very arrogant to think humans alone are causing global warming.

Aren't humans alone able to wipe out all life from this planet by detonating all the nukes that they have produced? Or are nukes waaaaaay overrated?

Thrawn · « **Reply #193 on:** March 27, 2006, 07:49:54 AM »

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Originally posted by Maverick
If we are reponsible for the rapidity of the warming cycle, how long did the earth take on the last 2 it was responsible for? Secondly who took the measurements and where did they take them? Were they in farenhiet or celcius? Which calandar did they use? Did the researchers during the last 2 cycles post their data?

Icecore sampling from the icecaps and glaciers. How do we know dinosaurs existed, there weren't any researchers alive back then as well.

Jackal1 · « **Reply #194 on:** March 27, 2006, 08:01:49 AM »

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Originally posted by Angus

So Jackal and Lazs (can I call you Charlotte and Susan?), while you are figuring out whether the globe is warming it actually is, and it is an established fact. If you'd live nearer to glaciers you'd actually not need any particular data, - you can see it with the naked eye.

Sure Agnus, why not.

If I lived where you do, what I would see would be the normal shifting and cycling of weather patterns.

You can probably get ready for another doomsday thread in the near future. Discovery will be airing a program in a few days dealing with the proposed coming Ice Age.