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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joeKnowledge
Reply #21 Wednesday, January 26, 2005 6:28 AM

According to a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters, the discharge rate of three important glaciers still remaining on the peninsula accelerated eightfold just from 2000 to 2003. "Ice is thinning at the rate of tens of meters per year" on the peninsula, with glacier elevations in some places having dropped by as much as 124 feet in six months, the study found.


Well something is happening and it has been for years. While human contributions to the Earth's global environment has been happening since the industrial age, no one can say that it is good for the Earth.

In other words, it does not help that we cut down trees, add pollution in multiple ways by the metric ton per day and so forth.

Also keep in mind that we had a huge earthquake a month ago that scientist agree that moved the Earth off its axis minutely (and we spin a few hundredths of some milliseconds faster). Nothing on its own, but might not help much in the long run.


I do not think this is a liberal concoction (although Liberals do mention it way more often when a republican is in office).

Something is going on and instead of waiting for proof that we are the reason why, we should actually figure out a way to stop what we do to add to it. This way we will never know if it was us or nature but I rather it be this was then finding out we do and its to late.

jn whitehead
Reply #22 Wednesday, January 26, 2005 7:40 AM
I wonder if the so called experts have ever heard of the earths wobble, which takes about 20 tgousand years to complete. The wobble will cause each pole to draw nearer the sun at the wobble draws towards its positive or negitive apexs. About ten to twelve thousand years ago a part of Antarctica were clear of ice and the north polar area the ice increased.

Besides these experts are under 100 years old and weather records are only a little older... who is to say that global warming is not a normal event that occurs on this planet.

NightTrainthedark
Reply #23 Wednesday, January 26, 2005 12:53 PM
Everything works in systems large or small. We have daily weather (night and day), annual weather (spring, summer, winter, fall),
and weather patterns can even be predicted over a 50 year span. It is only logical to think that "global warming" is part of a greater atmospherical system beyond our comprehension right now. Humans most likely had a part in speeding things up, but we will never know. The Earth will be fine for along time after human civiliztion is gone. We have only hurt ourselves and most life forms on the planet. I say most because we as humans don't know squat. Heck, man actually believed the earth was flat and still believe that size doesn't matter.


Essencay
Reply #24 Wednesday, January 26, 2005 1:20 PM
-9C/16F snowing again....someone figure out how to change the jetstream and blow a little Aussie heat this way. I'll spend around $2600 in heating oil and burn a cord of wood to keep this old farm house above 60F when it gets really cold out. I'd be better off moving to a warmer climate....$2600 would surely buy a whole lotta ice cold beers

I agree that global warming is happening, but I think it's part of the earth's inherent life cycle. Greenhouse gases....aren't most caused by vegetation?

paxx
Reply #25 Wednesday, January 26, 2005 3:53 PM
I too think the best solution is change nothing of my human activities, continue to polute, close my eyes, put my fingers in my ears and shout "It isn't happening! It isn't happening!"

WebGizmos
Reply #26 Wednesday, January 26, 2005 4:32 PM
#20 by Old Crab
Wednesday, January 26, 2005

It'll all go away someday and we can all smile again under a perpetual blanket of SUNSHINE.


Can I have what ever he's smokin?....lol

Action_Jay
Reply #27 Wednesday, January 26, 2005 5:14 PM
There's a natural process to it, sure. That isn't to say we haven't done anything to screw ourselves royally. Whatever happened to worrying about the ozone and running out of natural resources? Now there's a real issue that should probably be addressed before scientists try to 'correct' the earth's axis shifting or anything stupid like that.

'Global' warming seems to be the wrong term to use, though. It's not the entire world that's going up in flames. Some parts are going to end up in a new ice age, too. Up here in Canada City it's getting colder every year, with longer winters. Every time I go outside, I wonder to myself how I survived the weather last year, or the year before. I'm getting nostalgiac for the years I was able to actually enjoy being out in the snow. Nowadays you'll get frostbitten if you're out there for five minutes.

I don't see anything as drastic as in "The Day After Tomorrow". Hopefully we can predict these changes and get out of the way before we're run over by a glacier. We've gotta be smarter than the last species to get wiped out by a climate change, right?

carolelee
Reply #28 Wednesday, January 26, 2005 5:45 PM
Global Warming is happening, the North&South Poles are shrinking, iceburgs are breaking up and starting to melt(there's one off the Newfoundland coast breaking up)wacky weather all over the world, I'd say it's to little to late to reverse this.

wmsco
Reply #29 Wednesday, January 26, 2005 8:06 PM
Man o man I got one Question? Will my bomb shelter help me to survive this? Boy I don't want to go through this or my kids or my grandkids (thats a pretty .big bomb shelter)











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