Global Warming
Tuesday, January 25, 2005 by joeKnowledge | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
"The evidence is piling up; everything fits," Dr. Robert Thomas, a glaciologist from NASA who is the lead author of a recent paper on accelerating sea-level rise, said as the Chilean Navy plane flew over the sea ice here on an unusually clear day late in November. "Around the Amundsen Sea, we have surveyed a half dozen glaciers. All are thinning, in some cases quite rapidly, and in each case, the ice shelf is also thinning."
Does anyone think global warming is not happening? Is it because of human made polution or just a natural progression in nature. Maybe a natrual progression helped by humans?
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xvolution
Reply #2 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 8:49 PM
Reply #2 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 8:49 PM
Global warming is indeed happening. The drasitc changes in the weather over the years (increases in the number and severity of storms over the last decade) shows evidence of this.
There's this great movie called 'Day After Tomorrow' that you should watch. It might give you an idea about what is possible due to global warming.
There's this great movie called 'Day After Tomorrow' that you should watch. It might give you an idea about what is possible due to global warming.
Bebi Bulma
Reply #3 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 8:54 PM
LOL, I bought the movie...I admit it's quite amusing....but it's a major exaggeration.
I believe that global warming is a natural process....but is getting a bit of a push from human activities (polluting the atmosphere with greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels and what-not).
(Isn't doing research papers on global warming fun?
)
Reply #3 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 8:54 PM
| There's this great movie called 'Day After Tomorrow' that you should watch. It might give you an idea about what is possible due to global warming. |
LOL, I bought the movie...I admit it's quite amusing....but it's a major exaggeration.
I believe that global warming is a natural process....but is getting a bit of a push from human activities (polluting the atmosphere with greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels and what-not).
(Isn't doing research papers on global warming fun?
)
wmsco
Reply #4 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 9:06 PM
Reply #4 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 9:06 PM
Hi ya Joe
Well I do think global warming is happening. Im sure we humans have something to do with it. Some say meaning scientist the earth is over due for the axis to change ever so many thousands of yrs plus in both north and south pole from drillings they have found trees and fruit trees and other vegatation and other fossils. So as to weather or not this is a progression in nature. It is probable could be the lost of polar caps melting to the sea and the sea rising there will be lost of land and gainning of new land and could be leading to the shifting of the axis and so a whole new world. But yes global warming is happening just check the records of temps in your area over the last 40 or50 yrs I think you will see and to my memory it is getting warmer and season are changing not as long or shorter than they use to be. Some say and have been saying for a long time that the earth is slowing down meaning more exposure to warmth.Ozone doesnt help either .
Well you asked?
Well I do think global warming is happening. Im sure we humans have something to do with it. Some say meaning scientist the earth is over due for the axis to change ever so many thousands of yrs plus in both north and south pole from drillings they have found trees and fruit trees and other vegatation and other fossils. So as to weather or not this is a progression in nature. It is probable could be the lost of polar caps melting to the sea and the sea rising there will be lost of land and gainning of new land and could be leading to the shifting of the axis and so a whole new world. But yes global warming is happening just check the records of temps in your area over the last 40 or50 yrs I think you will see and to my memory it is getting warmer and season are changing not as long or shorter than they use to be. Some say and have been saying for a long time that the earth is slowing down meaning more exposure to warmth.Ozone doesnt help either .
Well you asked?
Island Dog
Reply #5 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 9:08 PM
Reply #5 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 9:08 PM
The Earth warms and cools as part of a natural process. There is no real scientific data that proves "global warming".
Sleeping Dragon
Reply #7 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 9:55 PM
Reply #7 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 9:55 PM
I left my space heater too close to my wall map one time. ...does that ..count as
.....global
...warming.
sorry.
.....global
...warming.
sorry.
Sleeping Dragon
Reply #8 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 9:57 PM
Reply #8 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 9:57 PM
Seriously, the Great Lakes here in the midwestern United States have been dropping at record rates. Water levels down every year.
Something is definitely different.
Something is definitely different.
eieio
Reply #9 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:02 PM
Reply #9 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:02 PM
If the glaciers are melting, shouldn't the water levels be rising everywhere? as in more water; less ice?
Jafo
Reply #11 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:23 PM
Reply #11 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:23 PM
pictoratus.....put simply....glaciers melt....higher air temps evaporate water....alters weather, storms, etc.....ad nauseum.
Current 'non-global warming' will see Perth, Western Australia uninhabitable to humans in around 50 years assuming current climate change-rate that is 'not' happening.
I doubt if I want to exist in an average temp of over 50c ....currently it's 37c in Melbourne....that's about enough.
Australia's average waterfall...is 5 inches....not per day, or per month.
But it's OK, you see....cos someone said it isn't happening....
wmsco
Reply #12 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:27 PM
Reply #12 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:27 PM
DSDragon
The greatlakes are not feed by the ocean are they? That would be a long canal. I thought they were made the first time the ice melted
The greatlakes are not feed by the ocean are they? That would be a long canal. I thought they were made the first time the ice melted
Sleeping Dragon
Reply #13 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:29 PM
Reply #13 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:29 PM
Made by the glaciers, maintained by rainfall, and connected to the oceans via the St Lawrence seaway and the Mississippi river. Cool trip to make. People do it all the time.
Sleeping Dragon
Reply #14 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:33 PM
Reply #14 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:33 PM
St Lawrence Seaway is visible. On the other side it's Lake Michigan/Chicago River/DesPlaines River/Illinois river/Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico. Navigable the entire way for barges.
wmsco
Reply #15 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:46 PM
Reply #15 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:46 PM
okay Thanks for geo 101
was a over the road driver once drove all around them on the us side and once in ontario did not know the st lawrence was west to east its been awhile since I look at a map I knew the cheasapeke did and one in oreagon st john but any way been land locked for about 15 yrs could of forgot so thanks
was a over the road driver once drove all around them on the us side and once in ontario did not know the st lawrence was west to east its been awhile since I look at a map I knew the cheasapeke did and one in oreagon st john but any way been land locked for about 15 yrs could of forgot so thanks
eieio
Reply #16 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:03 PM
Reply #16 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:03 PM
Just poking fun at what seemed illogical, Jafo
I have no doubt the globe is warming, just unsure of how much is contributed by what.
I have no doubt the globe is warming, just unsure of how much is contributed by what.
WebGizmos
Reply #18 Wednesday, January 26, 2005 1:06 AM
Reply #18 Wednesday, January 26, 2005 1:06 AM
Well...I for one do not need scientists to tell me about global warming. If you've lived on this planet for any length of time you can see it for yourself. In the area I live there "used to be" 4 distinct changes of seasons...so distinct you could almost set your watch to them....now there are only 2. And it's only common sense that when you continue to clear the earth of trees that produce and filter our air, and continue to put gases into the air, something has to give.
I have no doubt that sooner or later this planet will shake us all off like a bad case of fleas and start all over.
I have no doubt that sooner or later this planet will shake us all off like a bad case of fleas and start all over.
kona0197
Reply #19 Wednesday, January 26, 2005 1:36 AM
Start over? Some of us believe that we were created you know...
Anyways I think we have inflicted more damage than we know. Soon the fruits of our mistakes will become clear and the consequenses will show themselves.
Reply #19 Wednesday, January 26, 2005 1:36 AM
| I have no doubt that sooner or later this planet will shake us all off like a bad case of fleas and start all over. |
Start over? Some of us believe that we were created you know...
Anyways I think we have inflicted more damage than we know. Soon the fruits of our mistakes will become clear and the consequenses will show themselves.
Old_Crab
Reply #20 Wednesday, January 26, 2005 3:03 AM
Reply #20 Wednesday, January 26, 2005 3:03 AM
O.K. people stop all this hysterical nonsense. According to President George W. Bush and his quasi-scientists we're all hunky-dory and global warming is just alot of Liberal nonsense. It'll all go away someday and we can all smile again under a perpetual blanket of SUNSHINE. 
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Reply #1 Tuesday, January 25, 2005 8:44 PM
A bunch of idiots in the Northern hemisphere may think it's not happening...but if they got off their collective arses and travelled south they'd get an education....
Australia is on PERMANENT water restrictions.
Garden sprinklers are being collected/bought to be added to our Museums so future generations will know what they WERE.