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Oakie

11th April 2007, 18:04

First, yesterday morning I hear that sea levels are expected to rise a metre or so over the next how many years. Great. That means our present property a kilometre from the sea may be a beach-front property by the time we come to retire. Excellent!

Second .. and this really made me ROFL. A guy on the news said that in the future 'once in a 150 year storms' will happen more frequently. Outstanding!
(whispers a silent prayer that I don't have to explain why this is funny!)

Quartermile

11th April 2007, 20:21

Blood hippies worrided about global warming, pfffffft, were still come out of the last Ice Age

Donor

11th April 2007, 20:22

Lorax

11th April 2007, 21:41

A guy on the news said that in the future 'once in a 150 year storms' will happen more frequently.

Yes, is almost an oxymoron, sounds a bit silly. Unfortunately many weather events don't have a quantifiable scale for rating them. It's all measured against the climate since records began.

But yeah, tis truer than it is untruer, this gerlobal warmin stuff. Yes, hippies. But yes, the largest body of scientists in the world.

Also, yes, they are all guesses and predictions. What you've got to compare is that good ol' Bush says nothin's happening, nothin's gonna happen, the extreme environmentalists are saying shit's going down real bad, real soon. The IPCC is in the middle, massive amounts of research, arguing, BIG fat reports, but yes, still only predictions and modelling.

Time will prove them right unfortunately.

Grahameeboy

11th April 2007, 21:45

They are only going by the last 57 years..........if you read the front page of the Herald there are some positives too............do we really know...last year there was talk that the Global Warming theory was questionable.

Time will tell, just like the earth has done for millions of years and our known timelines are nothing to compare............

Lorax

11th April 2007, 21:59

last year there was talk that the Global Warming theory was questionable.

Yes, absolutely. Global warming theory is questionable, as is all science. However the overwhelming evidence is pointing to human-induced climate change.

And if it isn't human induced, that doesn't stop the fact that our climate is warming. It has been relatively static during the last 10,000 years (the Holocene - the period of geologic time since the last glaciation.). And yup, massive fluctuations have happened in the past. Arguments on both sides.

And some people love hearing scientists slag global warming theories, as this means you can continue to live the way we do. Like telling a morbidly obese person that they can eat as many pies as they want.

Jantar

11th April 2007, 22:21

...do we really know...last year there was talk that the Global Warming theory was questionable......
Last year? Have a look at this very forum yesterday: http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=47737

Oakie

12th April 2007, 09:10

And some people love hearing scientists slag global warming theories, as this means you can continue to live the way we do. Like telling a morbidly obese person that they can eat as many pies as they want.

Or like the dick from some NZ anti drug foundation on the news last night who said that the American 'just once' advertising campaign to stop kids getting into 'P' was over the top and that it was in fact safe to try 'P' "just once".
Once may not get you hooked (who knows) but he effectively told all those kids who were wondering about trying it that they do get one free shot at it without any ramifications.

Pwalo

12th April 2007, 11:28

Yes, absolutely. Global warming theory is Like telling a morbidly obese person that they can eat as many pies as they want.

That's better.

Quartermile

12th April 2007, 12:07

Or like the dick from some NZ anti drug foundation on the news last night who said that the American 'just once' advertising campaign to stop kids getting into 'P' was over the top and that it was in fact safe to try 'P' "just once".
Once may not get you hooked (who knows) but he effectively told all those kids who were wondering about trying it that they do get one free shot at it without any ramifications.
Yea I saw that and it pissed me off and I'm 17 probably the 'target market', just annother way NZ is far too soft on this kind of shit, and prison sentancind and, oh god I won't bore you with my ramblings about NZ justice sytems, again.