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Originally posted by Eurisko2012
reply to post by pluginkid
The scientists in the UK are corrupt. Didn't you read the ClimateGate emails?
Give scientists $$$ billions and they will tell you whatever you want to hear.
That includes cooking the books on global warming data.edit on 8-9-2012 by Eurisko2012 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Athin
reply to post by MamaJ
The Earth periodically heats and cools. Just like in the 60s it was 'global cooling'. Now it's global warming. In 2060 'global cooling' will be the hot political issue.
It's not man made. It's nature made. There is no stopping it unless we try to counter nature.
If it's man made, then why is Mars heating up to? Did we pollute our planet so much that it's leaving the atmosphere and polluting space?
This is common sense. I understand the media is fueling your fire and you want to spew the same nonsense because you believe what they say on t.v. but maybe it would be wise to do some research on the situation.
What happened to the polar bear stories? The guys who made this whole thing up are now under investigation for fabricating the entire story. It was all lies. The polar bears are NOT declining in numbers.
Originally posted by Athin
reply to post by MamaJ
The Earth periodically heats and cools. Just like in the 60s it was 'global cooling'. Now it's global warming. In 2060 'global cooling' will be the hot political issue.
It's not man made. It's nature made. There is no stopping it unless we try to counter nature.
If it's man made, then why is Mars heating up to? Did we pollute our planet so much that it's leaving the atmosphere and polluting space?
This is common sense. I understand the media is fueling your fire and you want to spew the same nonsense because you believe what they say on t.v. but maybe it would be wise to do some research on the situation.
What happened to the polar bear stories? The guys who made this whole thing up are now under investigation for fabricating the entire story. It was all lies. The polar bears are NOT declining in numbers.
Originally posted by inverslyproportional
reply to post by MamaJ
Global warming is a hoax period. The eartth is warmed by only one source, the sun. The sun is hotter than usual, making the planet hotter than usual.
You do the math.
Originally posted by bobs_uruncle
reply to post by MamaJ
It's one thing to take personal responsibility and change your behavior to something smarter, more cost effective and ecologically friendly, it's what I do. It is entirely another to pay some @sshat politician to fix the problem for you. I totally disagree with politicians trying to do anything, because they do nothing well, the idiots don't even know how to delegate properly. And then there is the presumption that global warming is primarily some anthropomorphic problem that taxes will fix, pffft.
We probably do contribute to changes in the environment, obviously we have cities, concrete, hot bodies creating 500 btu each and additional energy input practically everywhere you look. But our damage level is probably less than 1% of 1% of what the Sun, transit through the spiral arm or the thermal conductivity increase through a mildly dispersed nebula would cause. To think as a species that we have the capaibility to control or effect much larger energy systems at this point in our socially immature development is ridiculous and extremely egocentric. What will happen, will happen and I am fine with that, if we are meant to go extinct we will, if not, we won't. We already screwed with mother nature a bit, let's not add more interference and really piss off the system.
Cheers - Dave
Originally posted by poet1b
It's too late now anyway. We have reached the tipping point climate change is now driving itself. Ice loss in the Arctic is releasing CO2 and Methane at a rates higher than our energy consumption.
In essence, we have lit the fire, and it can't be put out. The fire of global warming will burn until all the carbon fuel is spent.
As the Antarctic continent thaws, it will release large amounts of CO2 and Methane.
What was predicted to happen in the next couple of hundred years will likely happen in the next couple of decades.
Mother nature is about to change the game.
“What has caused the gradual but systematic rise of two and a half degrees?” Muller writes. “We tried fitting the shape to simple math functions (exponentials, polynomials), to solar activity and even to rising functions like world population. By far the best match was to the record of atmospheric carbon dioxide, measured from atmospheric samples and air trapped in polar ice.”
The Berkeley project’s research has shown, Muller says, “that the average temperature of the Earth’s land has risen by two and a half degrees Fahrenheit over the past 250 years, including an increase of one and a half degrees over the most recent 50 years. Moreover, it appears likely that essentially all of this increase results from the human emission of greenhouse gases.”
Originally posted by inverslyproportional
reply to post by MamaJ
Global warming is a hoax period. The eartth is warmed by only one source, the sun. The sun is hotter than usual, making the planet hotter than usual.
Seems easy enough to understand without the chicken little routine to me, I don't know how everyone else doesn't see it also.
If your burning up is it because your skin is trapping to much green house gasses? Or is it that your standing too close to the fire?
You do the math.
Originally posted by MamaJ
Originally posted by pluginkid
reply to post by MamaJ
And just like I expected, the know it all's came out to attack. Like I'm going to believe a few ATS'ers
over SEVERAL scientists from all over the world.
Scientists that have came up with the same conclusion.
Scientists I might add, that have no ties with the oil industry
All you have to do is walk outside or turn on the news
to see that something dramatically is happening all around the world.
It's must be normal and natural right guys?
Let's just say we, the perfect little humans haven't harmed Mother Earth in any way what-so-ever.
Our perfect species ability to cut down millions of tree's,
spray harmful chemicals onto or food,hormones and
steroids shot into our animals and yes of course our massive use of fossil fuels.
(not to mention the endless amounts of oil we've spilled in our oceans)
Let's just say none of this is harmful to Earth in any way.
Don't you think it's time we get off foreign oil regardless of
the effects it has on our environment or not?
Don't ya think we should stop spraying chemicals and poisons onto our food supply?
or let me guess, that doesn't have any negative effect on us either right?
I think that this was the main awareness Obama was trying to make.
At least he can admit we have a problem with foreign oil dependency
Unlike Republicans who want even mention we have a problem. (And why would they
when a lot of their donors are oil companies??)
Regardless of what any of the 'know it all's" think you know, my gut and intuition
tell me that our environment is struggling. Something is off regardless of what
scientists are saying or not.
I'm curious, what do the non believers (of climate change) think we should do?
Do you think we should keep on living like we are?
Don't change a thing? Stay addicted to fossil fuels which we know we'll eventually run out of?
I'm so f@#%ing sick and tired of hearing people debate this obvious problem we're having.
Maybe when half the world is flooded and our population is cut down in half
will you people start to wake up and realize........
THERE IS A PROBLEM and we might just might be contributing to it
Exactly, and.... These are people who can be stuck with what they have and continue to support.
Money comes and goes, systems come go and go, SPECIES come and go, but the planet sustains.
I'm sorry, I'm like you, a fighter and no need to know it all, just enough to sustain and then some.
The Earth is speaking and its up to us to either listen or ignore her.
I wish we could all listen, be wise, take heed and help her so we can help our self and future generations.
Death happens, it's a part of life, I get that but I would rather fight for life and the end of destruction from power and greed. Self gratification is truly overrated.
I care.... Am compassionate for the kids of today's future and their children and so on. Life is abundant, we take it for granted like its always going to be. We have no idea what tomorrow will bring but we know that if changes are not made and made soon, life as we know it will no longer be.
Maybe the naysayers are right in their own right and if we just don't do anything then everything will crumble, the good will prevail and we can start anew with a lot less population and a lot less greed for self!!!!
Originally posted by mbkennel
For instance, increased solar output means more warming in equatorial regions, more in summer, and more in daytime, and warming stratosphere. Increased greenhouse effect means more warming in polar regions, more in winter, and more at night and a cooling stratosphere.
'Unprecedented' The Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) is at the forefront of Arctic research and its international director, Kim Holmen, told the BBC that the speed of the melting was faster than expected. "It is a greater change than we could even imagine 20 years ago, even 10 years ago," Dr Holmen said. "And it has taken us by surprise and we must adjust our understanding of the system and we must adjust our science and we must adjust our feelings for the nature around us." The institute has been deploying its icebreaker, Lance, to research conditions between Svalbard and Greenland - the main route through which ice flows out of the Arctic Ocean. During a visit to the port, one of the scientists involved, Dr Edmond Hansen, told me he was "amazed" at the size and speed of this year's melt. "As a scientist, I know that this is unprecedented in at least as much as 1,500 years. It is truly amazing - it is a huge dramatic change in the system," Dr Hansen said. "This is not some short-lived phenomenon - this is an ongoing trend. You lose more and more ice and it is accelerating - you can just look at the graphs, the observations, and you can see what's happening." Thinner ice