Prepare for new Ice Age, says scientist

[Nathan Petrelli]

I'm not going to be around in 70 years, so I will happily turn all my electricity switches on and leave them that way

 

[Mike_D202]

Back in the early 1900s, New York completely froze over (lakes and everything). So its not like this is anything new.

 

[Tron5000]

Too bad all the ice shelves are collapsing like in Al Gore's movie.

Oh, wait. That wasn't actually ice. That was styrofoam, and it was footage that was made for "The Day After Tomorrow."

So if "global warming" is real and something we should be so concerned about, why is dude using Hollywood-created footage and trying to pass it off as authentic?

 

[Danalys]

there aren't enough face palm pics on the internet.

 

[Tron5000]

there aren't enough face palm pics on the internet.

Nor are there enough ambiguous statements directed at seemingly no one.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

Oh Crap! The Day After Tomorrow is real! Just gotta remember to keep my doors closed to stop the killer ice.

 

[lazur]

Too bad all the ice shelves are collapsing like in Al Gore's movie.

Oh, wait. That wasn't actually ice. That was styrofoam, and it was footage that was made for "The Day After Tomorrow."

So if "global warming" is real and something we should be so concerned about, why is dude using Hollywood-created footage and trying to pass it off as authentic?

The antarctic is actually increasing in ice volume. So to an observer, it would appear that the arctic is reducing in size while its polar opposite is increasing in size.

 

[04nbod]

this can only be good news, we can burn all the oil we want now to balance it all out

 

[Danalys]

Nor are there enough ambiguous statements directed at seemingly no one.

if in doubt choose the post above. but really there are so many possible targets i can see how you got confused.

 

[Mike_D202]

Oh Crap! The Day After Tomorrow is real! Just gotta remember to keep my doors closed to stop the killer ice.

Dont forget to stay next to the fire place.

 

[Tron5000]

Dont forget to stay next to the fire place.

We need hand warmers. Like, lots of them.

 

[Backdrifter]

http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/

* The temperature effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide is logarithmic, not exponential.
* The potential planetary warming from a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide from pre-Industrial Revolution levels of ~280ppmv to 560ppmv (possible some time later this century - perhaps) is generally estimated at around 1 °C.
* The guesses of significantly larger warming are dependent on "feedback" (supplementary) mechanisms programmed into climate models. The existence of these "feedback" mechanisms is uncertain and the cumulative sign of which is unknown (they may add to warming from increased atmospheric carbon dioxide or, equally likely, might suppress it).
* The total warming since measurements have been attempted is thought to be about 0.6 degrees Centigrade. At least half of the estimated temperature increment occurred before 1950, prior to significant change in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Assuming the unlikely case that all the natural drivers of planetary temperature change ceased to operate at the time of measured atmospheric change then a 30% increment in atmospheric carbon dioxide caused about one-third of one degree temperature increment since and thus provides empirical support for less than one degree increment due to a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
* There is no linear relationship between atmospheric carbon dioxide change and global mean temperature or global mean temperature trend -- global mean temperature has both risen and fallen during the period atmospheric carbon dioxide has been rising.
* The natural world has tolerated greater than one-degree fluctuations in mean temperature during the relatively recent past and thus current changes are within the range of natural variation. (See, for example, ice core and sea surface temperature reconstructions.)
* Other anthropogenic effects are vastly more important, at least on local and regional scales.
* Fixation on atmospheric carbon dioxide is a distraction from these more important anthropogenic effects.
* Despite attempts to label atmospheric carbon dioxide a "pollutant" it is, in fact, an essential trace gas, the increasing abundance of which is a bonus for the bulk of the biosphere.
* There is no reason to believe that slightly lower temperatures are somehow preferable to slightly higher temperatures - there is no known "optimal" nor any known means of knowingly and predictably adjusting some sort of planetary thermostat.
* Fluctuations in atmospheric carbon dioxide are of little relevance in the short to medium term (although should levels fall too low it could prove problematic in the longer-term).
* Activists and zealots constantly shrilling over atmospheric carbon dioxide are misdirecting attention and effort from real and potentially addressable local, regional and planetary problems.


Global Warming is over-hyped, sensationalized scare tactics to get you to vote, buy and participate in a certain life-style. In my opinion, its the left's answer to terrorism. Where the right says "BE AFRAID! THE TERRORISTS ARE GOING TO KILL YOU!", the left says "BE AFRAID! THE GLACIERS ARE MELTING! THE WHOLE WORLD IS GOING TO FLOOD!"

 

[Gallagher]

So can pretty much anyone make doomsday phropecies nowadays?

I deny your apocalypse and replace it with my own.

We all die in the great hooker war of 2020

 

[SuBe]

So can pretty much anyone make doomsday phropecies nowadays?

I deny your apocalypse and replace it with my own.

We all die in the great hooker war of 2020

I gett'n front Row Tickets!!!

 

[Alex The Great]

i'll go buy a coat