Global warming

**Jackrat** · 2nd February 2006, 18:23

Saw a program about global warming on TV the other night.
So,if the sea level raises 100 meters over the next 100 yrs like these experts reckon it will.Where is your current home going to be?
Where I live now will be under about 80 meters of wet stuff,but where I own will be sweet.Probably worth millions to,pity I won't be here to take advantage of it.

**myvice** · 2nd February 2006, 18:34

Didn’t catch the program, was it 100 meters straight up or 100 meters closer?
As in going to the beach is now a shorter drive by 100 meters?

**SixPackBack** · 2nd February 2006, 18:52

Global warming is still widely debated, just what is going to happen and more importantly why is a long way from agreed upon.
Want something to worry about...Earth polarity changes, yup its a biggie!

**Jackrat** · 2nd February 2006, 19:04

Originally Posted by myvice

Didn’t catch the program, was it 100 meters straight up or 100 meters closer?
As in going to the beach is now a shorter drive by 100 meters?

100 meters straight up.
An sixpack,I'm not worried just found it interesting is all.
The guy on TV had just come back from a confrence in Asia and said that they'd come to the conclusion that it was happening and to late to do anything about.
Like I said,I'm not going to be here anyway.
Bugger

**Skyryder** · 2nd February 2006, 19:15

Originally Posted by sixpackback

Global warming is still widely debated, just what is going to happen and more importantly why is a long way from agreed upon.
Want something to worry about...Earth polarity changes, yup its a biggie!

Soundl like all the scientific community are in agreament with this. Just like global warming polarity reversal is measured over thousands of years.
http://www.nasca.org.uk/Strange_reli...ternative.html

You may be thinking of tilting. If this happens then we all are in deep shit.
http://www.nasca.org.uk/Strange_reli...ced_world.html

Skyryder

**sedge** · 2nd February 2006, 19:25

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2005/

I will have beach front property in 30 years... Then I'll sell it and buy a boat... I've seen waterworld... I know what happens...

Sedge.

**myvice** · 2nd February 2006, 19:29

Better go get me some of them gills...
More worried about a big cosmic rock screwing us all!
That’s not too true, I'm more worried about my wife finding out what my account at the bike shop is but that will only kill a couple of people.
But it will be a slower death...
HEEERRRRREEEE ROCK, ROCK, ROCK, COME GET THE PLANET!!!

**What?** · 2nd February 2006, 19:37

When I were a lad in school, we were told the world was heading for another ice age. No money in that, though, so the scientists turned the theory on its head and, hey presto!, a gravy train was built.

**Karma** · 2nd February 2006, 19:53

The world is turning to gravy?

**Motu** · 2nd February 2006, 19:59

Same colour....but I think it's something else.

Looks like I might need to lift my place a tad......

**SixPackBack** · 2nd February 2006, 20:35

Originally Posted by Skyryder

Soundl like all the scientific community are in agreament with this. Just like global warming polarity reversal is measured over thousands of years.
http://www.nasca.org.uk/Strange_reli...ternative.html

You may be thinking of tilting. If this happens then we all are in deep shit.
http://www.nasca.org.uk/Strange_reli...ced_world.html

Skyryder

Polarity Reversal has been measured through archaeological evidence at up to 6 degree's in a day...this will cause...problems!
Have not previously heard of 'tilt'

**myvice** · 2nd February 2006, 20:44

Originally Posted by sixpackback

Polarity Reversal has been measured through archaeological evidence at up to 6 degree's in a day...this will cause...problems!
Have not previously heard of 'tilt'

Think of pinball...
Not nice to think of the earth going into a big tank-slapper, could mess with my long term plans.

**bluninja** · 3rd February 2006, 01:00

global warming pah!! It snowed when I was waiting for a train in Southampton this morning.

According to some research we receive 3% less sunlight at the surface cos the pollution is bouncing it back into space. So we should be cooling by 3%, but we don't cos the same pollution is trapping heat.

If future medical research enables me to live to 1000 I'll start learning to ride a fuel cell powered jetski and live on a luxury yacht.

**Posh Tourer :P** · 3rd February 2006, 01:40

I have some serious doubts about global warming. True, the temperature might be rising quite fast recently, but it always spikes before an ice age. Also, there is a n ever increasing effect of cities trapping heat. Bigger cities and the effect of that on temperature readings around the world cannot be discounted. Temperature readings get more accurate the closer they are to today, and thus we can't be sure this hasn't happened before, because we just don't have the resolution.

All very interesting. Read Bjorn Lomborg's Skeptical Environmentalist in the chapters relating to global warming and such problems - comes at it from a statistician's perspective

**Drunken Monkey** · 3rd February 2006, 07:56

The problem isn't really 'global warming' as such, its that some scientists are being paid off the scare-monger us into thinking humans are the cause.

We live in a particularly unusual state of the Earth in geological time, an inter-glacial, which is partway between a total ice-age and a 'global' tropical environment. Throughout most of the the Earth's 4,600,000,000 years in this solar system the Earth was 'quite' warm and didn't have frozen polar caps - as far as the Earth is concerned, that is the 'normal' state. The melting of the polar ice-caps are inevitable (unless we really stuff around with the Earth's weather systems).

On top of this, don't you think it seems odd that the same people who tell us our cow's farts, cars and hairspray are causing these effects, yet simultaneously tell us Mt Pinatubo pumped out more 'greenhouse' gasses in 91/92 than man's entire history since the start of the industrial revolution. This much greenhouse gas was only able to make global weather changes that balanced back to 'normal' in less than 3 years. This is only a 'blip' in the grand scheme of weather patterns, hardly doom impending stuff.

Also, did you see the article a couple of weeks ago about the satellite imagery and study that showed trees produced methane - the largest methane concentrations were over the South American and African rainforests. They conveniently skimmed over the fact the chart indicated there was less concentration over industrial Europe and USA.

A damn conspiracy, I say!

Climate history: http://www.scotese.com/climate.htm

Global warming: http://predictweather.com/global_warming/index.asp
(Ok, Ring has an agenda, but his basic principles are sound, just cross-reference them against any high-scool or varsity science text books)

No agenda, just data: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change

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