Whatever happen to ''global warming''?

[William Gaatjes]

Unless your homeowner's insurance covers it! :awe:

That sounds so Goldman Sachs...

 

[JTsyo]

It's getting hotter:

The past decade from 2001 to 2010 was the warmest on record and includes 9 of the 10 hottest years. A NOAA ranking of the 15 hottest years globally shows they all occurred in the last 15 years since 1995.

 

[FoBoT]

I'll take "PingSpike" for $1000, Alex.

 

[sandorski]

why only blame temperature goes up as a man-made event (global warming) when you can blame the mankind for the temperature go either direction (climate change)?

Srsly?

 

[BudAshes]

Basically we all know we are fucked but we aren't giving up fossil fuels so now we just ignore it and hope for the best. The Earth won't die, just a lot of the people on it. We are already causing huge mass extinctions so we really shouldn't be surprised when our time comes to pay the bill.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Whatever happened to "evolution"?

There is an abundance of evidence available to answer your question. It's not the fault of the scientific community that you can't be bothered to look into it enough.

What the hell ever did happen to evolution? I would have thought this board would be smarter by now.

 

[bobdole369]

You must be joking right???!!!!

 

[Analog]

 

[FelixDeCat]

I wonder if the debacle in texas has caused the rural farmers, who i suspect lean right, to re-evaluate whether or not global warming is real or not.

This really shouldnt be a political issue. We should stop polluting the environment. Period.

 

[wirednuts]

how about we just dont pollute the air so that we can fucking breathe right. global warming becomes a non issue then.

 

[lxskllr]

This really shouldnt be a political issue. We should stop polluting the environment. Period.

How does that help the next quarter's profits?

 

[Red Squirrel]

I definitely have noticed global warming over the past 10-20 years. When I was a little kid, we'd have 6+ feet of snow by now. The hills from the driveway being plowed was nearly as high as the house, maybe not by this time of year, but a few more months in. Some years it was higher. I remember actually building a tower for fun on the snow hill. I actually could see over all the houses. I remember jumping off the roof into the snow with friends too. Try that now, you'll break something.

Other than the few abnomolities such as a year in the 90's where we had no snow at Christmas, I'd say that our winters have slowly decreased. They start later, have less snow, are not as cold. Our summers have also been getting hotter. Now 20 years is kinda a short period to judge on though, but it does indeed seem to be a trend, other than the few years that don't fall in the trend, which is just a normal thing with weather.

Whether or not we are responsible is another issue, but regardless, we really need to stop polluting, since we're just ruining the environment in other ways such as all the landfills, unbreathable air in big cities, etc. If it was not for political BS, we'd all be running electric cars and there would be no more fossil fuel power plants by now.

 

[TheTony]

The only thing that's really debatable at all is the cause for the rise in temperature; is it man made or not.

There is scientific consensus that the cause is anthrophogenic. It feels rather futile even posting in this thread, but the rest of your statement was more or less factual so I felt compelled to correct you. I'm just suprised by how many folks repeat this (see the post above). I suppose it's due to influence of those who rejected CC for so long who have now accepted it but still dispute the cause...

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

WTF. In Philosophy you should be learning about logic, modes of thought, existentialism etc...

Well if he's trying to learn about logic, barking up the Climate Change tree is definately not going to get him an A as it isn't logical to think man is the cause of it, when history, scientific history proves that the climate has made drastic shifts one way or the other in the past, all without man.

 

[lxskllr]

Well if he's trying to learn about logic, barking up the Climate Change tree is definately not going to get him an A as it isn't logical to think man is the cause of it, when history, scientific history proves that the climate has made drastic shifts one way or the other in the past, all without man.

Because lightning burned down thousands of barns in the past doesn't mean there isn't an arsonist running around today.

 

[biostud]

My favorite is: The ice caps are melting so now we can gain access to even more oil we can use to increase our CO2 emission. Who said global warming isn't good for something?

 

[SSSnail]

I don't know about you guys, but I'd rather much breath the air from Anchorage, Alaska than that of downtown Los Angeles - warming or not. So go ahead, wallow more in your ignorance.

But, to answer the OP's question, global economic near collapse of 2008, toss in some uncanny natural disasters, and for good measures some uprising - that should put global warming back near the classified, along with Britney Spears news...

 

[FoBoT]

did anybody answer the question, "does this mean there will never be another ice age?"

accepted: global warming is real, it is caused by co2 and water vapor from fossil fuels etc -> temperatures will continue to rise until all life is wiped out? or it'll go up for XXXX years and then the normal ice age cycle will kick in and the glaciers will return to southern California ? anybody know?

 

[sandorski]

did anybody answer the question, "does this mean there will never be another ice age?"

accepted: global warming is real, it is caused by co2 and water vapor from fossil fuels etc -> temperatures will continue to rise until all life is wiped out? or it'll go up for XXXX years and then the normal ice age cycle will kick in and the glaciers will return to southern California ? anybody know?

Dunno. It is possible that it won't, but to completely stop an Ice Age would require a lot more CO2 than what we're putting into the atmosphere, AFAIK. It could possibly be delayed, but I doubt outright Cancelled without going so far to the warming extreme that Earth starts looking like Venus.

 

[FoBoT]

thank you, sandorski

 

[Zap]

I definitely have noticed global warming over the past 10-20 years. When I was a little kid, we'd have 6+ feet of snow by now.

That's because when you were a kid, temperatures were getting so low that people were worried about going into another ice age.

Another Ice Age?
Time magazine article from 1974

Little Ice Age was defined by NASA:

A cold period that lasted from about A.D. 1550 to about A.D. 1850 in Europe, North America, and Asia. This period was marked by rapid expansion of mountain glaciers, especially in the Alps, Norway, Ireland, and Alaska. There were three maxima, beginning about 1650, about 1770, and 1850, each separated by slight warming intervals.

I would postulate that the 1970's were another maxima. Thus, we are in the "slight warming intervals" between, just like the last global warming scare in the 1940s.

 

[sandorski]

That's because when you were a kid, temperatures were getting so low that people were worried about going into another ice age.

Another Ice Age?
Time magazine article from 1974

Little Ice Age was defined by NASA:


I would postulate that the 1970's were another maxima. Thus, we are in the "slight warming intervals" between, just like the last global warming scare in the 1940s.

/facepalm

Keep tossing that halftruth and red herring into it.