Discussion: Global Warming and Other Environmental Issues

[mightiest_mortal]

cold is good for ed!

umm whos Ed?

 

[CyberFaust]

noone in particular

 

[Addendum]

The real question is... what would you put in a 25 square mile shelf?

You wouldn't have to deal with overheating

 

[OverMyHead]

This is good news.

There won't be any Antartica or the Artic Pole in the next fifty years. All the penguins and polars will go extinct. Can I get an amen?!

 

[Fred_Fury]

This is good news.

There won't be any Antartica or the Artic Pole in the next fifty years. All the penguins and polars will go extinct. Can I get an amen?!

they can still live at the zoo

 

[mightiest_mortal]

All the penguins and polars will go extinct. Can I get an amen?!

No they wont, because the penguins will all start dancing and thus draw attention to their plight, so we'l all stop Global warming and dance together..



...apart from the stupid guy who falls over.

 

[OverMyHead]

they can still live at the zoo

Nah, they're dead.

I'll bet you a million dollars.

 

[mightiest_mortal]

Nah, they're dead.

I'll bet you a million dollars.

ALL of them?
Il take you up on that bet

 

[Cannibal Feast]

 

[AssMan]

With Global Warming being in the news so much lately I have a feeling they will be making eventually The Day Before Tomorrow

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

People may not care now,but this will effect them and they will be punished for not doing anything.

 

[Cannibal Feast]

 

[OverMyHead]

People may not care now,but this will effect them and they will be punished for not doing anything.

Like you.

Haha!

 

[Morg]

we get a lot of global warmingy threads around these parts don't we?

Yes and a few from a certain poster who claims there no such thing as glabal warming

 

[Addendum]

People may not care now,but this will effect them and they will be punished for not doing anything.

 

[Dope Nose]

there are so many things wrong with that photo, among them being that it looks like Goldie Hawn.

 

[logansoldcigar]

Yes and a few from a certain poster who claims there no such thing as glabal warming

Is the poster that is saving to buy a gas station franchise?

 

[OverMyHead]

This is what one man said at another forum:

Ah, global warming. The issue becomes confusing for several reasons. Among them:

A. There is disagreement in the scientific community about what is causing global warming.
B. The world has experienced warming and cooling trends before. Remember, the Vikings once had farms and sheep ranches in Greenland; it must have been much warmer then than it is now. Which leads to problem C . . .
C. What is the Earth's "normal" temperature? We've been making accurate measurements for only a century or so. If we are at a "below-normal" temperature, then interfering with the natural climate cycle might not be wise at all.
D. Everyone has a stake in whether or not the world is heating. Politicians need the publicity. Lawyers need publicity and money. Taxpayers want to know that their euros are being well-spent. And the Union of Concerned Scientists, which has fewer real scientists in it than they'd like you to think about, has made people's careers by making the environment their top priority. Now, this does not mean they are wrong. It does mean that they are more likely to take neutral information and twist it so that global warming sounds more dangerous than it is.
E. Last, there are numerous countries that will continue industrializing no matter what. Are you going to tell China to slow down, and make your words stick?

If global warming becomes a major problem in the near future, and if I had infinite money and resources, this is what I would do as a moderately informed layperson:

I would spend money to find out which areas of the world will suffer most, and treat those areas first. Europe has the North Atlantic Conveyor to worry about; I want to know precisely how the NAC will be affected by warming.

I would get a lot of iron and prepare to spread it in the open ocean. If you want the details of why it would work, send me a Private Message; it will take too long to explain here. But the end result would be reduced CO2 levels. The only problem: we would not be able to recover the CO2 once it was used.

Finally, I would set up a large number of nuclear reactors. There are people who have been told that these are evil and dangerous. Google "hormesis cancer radiation reduce" to see why this biology major isn't falling for it.

Surely there are other steps. Come to think of it, if the interested Members here were to come up with an idea for reducing global warming, we could send the answers to our various forms of governments and rest happy in the knowledge that we've helped the world.

Pretty interesting..

 

[rdh007]

It's real and it's mother nature's way of cleaning house.

 

[Eros]

Its real, and unless we do something we are dead.

 

[Ice-man]

see what some people dont get is, other than the slight global warming ware going through, its also the greenhouse affect, latly earths atmosphere has been absorbing the suns heat, which is why the ice caps are melting at such a fast rate. not only that but our seaons are off too, in new york its quite warm, i mean shouldnt there be atleast some snow? its like summer became fall, fall became winter, winter became spring, i mean wtf and i also heard the ploes are switching again. which could be why the weather is ****ed up.

also my theory is proveing to be true, earth will restart itself, humans/ animals basically all life will die out, than well go through regeneration, ice agaes, jurassic periods, and so on. idk, but it can happen. and it will happen.


theres not much we can do about it, other than inhabit a new planet, thats in our inhabatible zone, thy found 3 already but, it would take many years for that to happen.


so yea global warming, true.

 

[MurphyMan]

IT IS REAL!

This is Prince Edward Island, Home of Hurricane Yawn, White Yawn and USUALLY LOTS OF SNOW! IT IS GREEN OUTSIDE AND I DO NOT EVEN NEED A COAT HARDLY!!!!!

MEANWHILE IN B.C. WHERE MY BEST FRIEND IS and WHERE THERE IS NEVER SNOW HAS BEEN HAVING LOTS OF SNOW, AND ONGOING SNOW AND ALSO WHEN NOT SNOWING IT IS RAINING AND BLOWING!!!!!!
BRIDGES ARE FALLING APART, VANCOUVER IS GOING NUTS AND BRITISH COLUMBIAN PEOPLE WERE NEVER PREPARED FOR THE SNOW OR THIS BIG OF RAIN.

WHEN I WAS UP THERE RIGHT BEFORE I CAME BACK HOME, THERE WAS LESS THAN HALF THE SNOW PEI GETS ON THE LEAST SNOWY DAY AND RESTAURANTS AND GROCERY STORES WERE CLOSED, POWER WAS OUT, THE WATER HAD A BOIL ORDER, BRIDGES I REPEAT WERE GONE!!!,
IT WAS A CANADIAN CATASTROPHE!!!!!!

I ALMOST STARVED FOR A WEEK!!! THE SKY TRAINS WEREN'T GOING IN SOME SPOTS, OR THE BUSES, OR THE TRAINS AND SEA BUSES. ALL TRANSPORTATION WAS SKEWED. ALL TAXIS TOOK HOURS! I WAS LUCKY MY PLANE EVEN GOT OFF THE ****ING GROUND THE MORNING I LEFT.
MY HOTEL ROOM TV WAS NOT WORKING BECAUSE OF THE STORM!!!
THE INTERNET KEPT CRAPPING OUT! EVERYONE WAS STRANDED IN B.C. WHO WAS TRAVELING ELSEWHERE! IT WAS NUTS!

AND I AM 100% THIS CLIMATE CRISES IS WHAT CAUSED THE BIG CHANGE IN WEATHER, IN THE PROVINCE PEOPLE WOULD BE BBQ-ING FOR CHRISTMAS AND NOT DIGGING OUT OF SNOW EVERY PAST YEAR!

 

[Kritish]

IT IS REAL!

This is Prince Edward Island, Home of Hurricane Yawn, White Yawn and USUALLY LOTS OF SNOW! IT IS GREEN OUTSIDE AND I DO NOT EVEN NEED A COAT HARDLY!!!!!

MEANWHILE IN B.C. WHERE MY BEST FRIEND IS and WHERE THERE IS NEVER SNOW HAS BEEN HAVING LOTS OF SNOW, AND ONGOING SNOW AND ALSO WHEN NOT SNOWING IT IS RAINING AND BLOWING!!!!!!
BRIDGES ARE FALLING APART, VANCOUVER IS GOING NUTS AND BRITISH COLUMBIAN PEOPLE WERE NEVER PREPARED FOR THE SNOW OR THIS BIG OF RAIN.

WHEN I WAS UP THERE RIGHT BEFORE I CAME BACK HOME, THERE WAS LESS THAN HALF THE SNOW PEI GETS ON THE LEAST SNOWY DAY AND RESTAURANTS AND GROCERY STORES WERE CLOSED, POWER WAS OUT, THE WATER HAD A BOIL ORDER, BRIDGES I REPEAT WERE GONE!!!,
IT WAS A CANADIAN CATASTROPHE!!!!!!

I ALMOST STARVED FOR A WEEK!!! THE SKY TRAINS WEREN'T GOING IN SOME SPOTS, OR THE BUSES, OR THE TRAINS AND SEA BUSES. ALL TRANSPORTATION WAS SKEWED. ALL TAXIS TOOK HOURS! I WAS LUCKY MY PLANE EVEN GOT OFF THE ****ING GROUND THE MORNING I LEFT.
MY HOTEL ROOM TV WAS NOT WORKING BECAUSE OF THE STORM!!!
THE INTERNET KEPT CRAPPING OUT! EVERYONE WAS STRANDED IN B.C. WHO WAS TRAVELING ELSEWHERE! IT WAS NUTS!

AND I AM 100% THIS CLIMATE CRISES IS WHAT CAUSED THE BIG CHANGE IN WEATHER, IN THE PROVINCE PEOPLE WOULD BE BBQ-ING FOR CHRISTMAS AND NOT DIGGING OUT OF SNOW EVERY PAST YEAR!

WHY THE HELL ARE YOU POSTING IN CAPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Joker]

I live in southern minnesota...usually this time of year it's freezing ass cold with snow...it's snowed twice, just flurries, and 2 days ago it was warm enough that you could go outside for long periods of time with no coat...the worst we've had is a couple days of freezing rain...so yeah, it exists

 

[Shifty]

so if the snow wasn't melting then you wouldn't believe it?

Our over weight hockey historian prime minister did an address outside parliament this past week in his business suit. No prime minister has ever done that in January. He then "fired" our environment minister who was horrible and replaced her with someone who probably won't do much better.