Global Warming

[James_Potter]

Never mind what you've heard about global warming as a slow-motion emergency that would take decades to play out. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the crisis is upon us.

From heat waves to storms to floods to fires to massive glacial melts, the global climate seems to be crashing around us.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/26/coverstory/index.html

discuss!

[podzol]

It isn't sudden to the scientists who have been studying this for some time now.

It may be sudden to many folks who have had their head in the sand all the while.

[James_Potter]

I don't see it as "sudden," global warming has been going on for a very very long time. However, the possible consequences we could be facing very soon is what is surprising, and a little scary if you think about it.

[podzol]

It is extremely frightening.

At conferences that I have attended that address the climate change issues, the general feeling is overwhelmingly bleak.

[James_Potter]

Have you seen that one movie, The Day After Yesterday, or The Day Before Tomorrow, or something like that, where the world becomes all frozen because of a "major climatic shift"?
Thats a cool movie.

[Radical Reed]

I've seen that movie!! yeah my sister is really enviromentle so that sort of gets passed on to me and aparently the average earth tempature at the last iceage is just 5 degrees C below what it is now! imagine what another 5 degrees could do?

[toddw9]

Well if this graph is accurate, it appears that the average temperature is lower now than in the past. Note that present day is on the left side of the graph. I know nothing about the accuracy of the graph, but I did find it interesting.

I have felt for a long time that the idea of global warming is a load of crap that enviros try to feed us. I agree that we should be conscious of what we use and waste, and we should conserve what we have, but for me that's more of just a moral or ethical issue than out of necessity for "saving the earth". I absolutely don't buy into this "global warming" crap. Fluctuations are gonna happen, we happen to be on the upward slope of it, get used to it.

[monkeyman]

I've never bought into global warming either....I am into conserving what can be conserved, and not being wasteful, however the world's temperatures have been fluctuating for forever...now we're just advanced enough to notice and care

[wumpus]

It is not global warming so much as anthropogenically caused warming. That is worrisome. We have shifted the location of carbon, from underground stores to atmospheric which is affecting global temperatures, and that in turn is causing changes. Will the world end... no, but as a complex system, we will just shift into a new dynamic equilibrium, one that many find distasteful, and or problematic

[yoopers]

I love talking about the global warming issue, especially when the weather out side is so nice.

[phlegm]

Originally Posted by wumpus

Will the world end...

The world as we know it will end in 2060. That's what Isaac Newton said.

[Radical Reed]

Originally Posted by phlegm

The world as we know it will end in 2060. That's what Isaac Newton said.

I haven't the time or patiance to read all that. will somone give me the just of it

[phlegm]

Originally Posted by Radical Reed

I haven't the time or patiance to read all that. will somone give me the just of it

Other than modern science, Newton devoted much time to studying theology. Within theology is a branch called 'eschatology' which is the study of the Second Coming of Christ. So, Newton used his eschatological interpretation of prophetic passages from the Bible to add up to the year of Christ's return, and 2060 is that year.

[pinwheel]

Global warming...I'm ready, I believe my ark will be big enough to hold two of everything... well except boys of course...coz, what good are they... they just borrow your uni and bend the wheel.....

[phlegm]

Here's some more fuel for the fire:

Rewriting the Science