Secondly, the goober who wrote the piece didn't bother to look up the classic definition of global warming before he started to write. Do you really think this woman can have any idea what the weather a week out is? /msgboard/images/graemlins/smirk.gif Would you rely on her to warn you of an imminent hurricane? Za, did ya read them? Let's start with the first one, the one with the woman who predicts weather based on her corns. On the other hand, one little meteor could wipe out everything. That does not mean we should not watch it, we could destroy the earth if we don't watch it. No, I don't think we have a problem, we are on the right track. What happens when someone with ebola gets on a plane and flies to Europe? I don't think we will die out but we might lose half our population. I predict that within the next 100 years Mother Nature is going to let us have it. While in general I agree with Stephan, I hate the thought that the primary reason we need to be looking is because we are taking a dump in our own bed. The only ultimate "win" in the universe is survival of the species from a physical standpoint (setting aside spiritual aspects for the moment.) If we're smart enough to get to this point, we should be smart enough to spend the effort to spread beyond Earth. If something happens whether accelerated global warming or a meteor strike and man gets wiped out, we lose in the big picture of the evolutionary survival stakes. Stephen Hawking is now on this bandstand, too.
One point overlooked in this is that the number one priority for man's survival should be figuring out how to leave the planet and colonize elsewhere. Any science fiction buff can tell you that! Why do you think Venus is so much hotter than it's relative postition to the sun merits? It's the cloud cover holding all the energy in. The bounced one is gone but the one that gets in stays in, due to the clouds and transmitts much more of it's energy to heat than it would have. Lets assume we have two sun rays and that they represent a certain level of energy that can impact the earth. Clouds don't just hold out sun rays, they also hold in heat. Second, your "scientist has it backwards. Do you have any idea what 1 degree represents in terms of melting the ice caps or glaciers and having an impact on hurricane strength?
One thing it pointed out is that if we had more of a "greenhouse effect" like the movie says, the temp would actually go down instead of up (more clouds) We were due for a huge year in the Atlantic Ocean last year, the numbers showed that before the year even started.Īctually read what that link I posted said. There has always been HUGE floods, there has always been years of very few or many named storms. What is actually happening is that we are slowly changing as has always happened. Big wooppieįor every scientists that says we are having "Global Warming", there are more that say this is not happening. What do I believe, well the average temp for the world has gone up 1 degree in 100 years. To do something would mean a loss in billions of dollars in profit by oil companies and other major polluters that is, don't count on anything being done in the near future. The reason that guys like Pizza want to ignore this is nicely summed up in the name of Gore's movie - An inconvenient truth. The amount of rain falling is because there is a whole lot more heat in the ocean, which translates into more energy, more storms, and more rain. We've also had record numbers of floods (are you watching the news at all?). In case you haven't noticed Pizza, in the past few years we've had record numbers of large hurricanes and they're beating the crud out of the Gulf Coast. Does it sound a lot like the "cigarettes don't cause cancer crowd?" BTW - the nay-sayers, they are for the most part employees of the big oil companies, funny that. They also ignore the direct evidence that we are impacting the temperature and even if it is a normal cycle, we're making it worse. What they neglect is the fact that the evidence shows that no change in global temperature has ever occurred so rapidly before. Those who stand against it don't argue it isn't here, they make the argument that the warming trends could be part of a standard cycle. Global warming is here, even the nay-sayers agree. It's called science and I'm appalled at how little the general public, and our President, understands it. Pizza, some days it's hard to say I know you.