Nope not one bit. See below.Originally Posted by Big Dave
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Nope not one bit. See below.
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The weather has always had extremes and is always changing. We are existing in a tiny little part of the earth's history where the weather is mostly good so personally I don't feel the need to freak out about it.
Humans have always fretted about natural phenomenon - pleading with the gods not to send another flood, another drought, or another earthquake - usually believing that it was somehow all their fault that these things were happening.
Now we have global warming (which somehow now magically includes cold - or what I call "global colding") and in my opinion, it is closely related to other "Chicken Licken" issues like that old classic, "Y2K" or more recently "Bird Flu".
That's just my opinion of course.
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Yeah ok, but when was the last time the earth looked like this?
Immature and proud of it.
In May '77 I had just started with the MOT. That first winter was one of repeated frosts and 6.00AM starts to be on the Northern M/way for the start of the shift. The issue gloves were so crap that they cut off circulation to your fingers and made the cold worse, so every 5 - 10 k's it was a case of pulling over, putting the gloves on the engine and thawing your hands against the cases.
I'd never been so cold in my life.
Speed doesn't kill people.
Stupidity kills people.
the middle path
Not necessarily. Have a look here:
http://www.ecobridge.org/content/g_evd.htm#Weather
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/...climate-change
Temperatures have been measured world wide for over a hundred years. The planet is getting warmer, that is a measured and recorded fact.
The (average) temp started rising in the late 1800s and has mirrored the rise in the use of fossil fuels and pollution. This of course may just be a coincidence, but the majority of scientists think not. Still, a lot of them have a vested interest in scaring up research funds, and some are paid by big corporations (particulaly those close to the Bush administration) to say there is no problem. Who to believe? and is it better to be safe than sorry....?
Experience......something you get just after you needed it
Aargh, photos!
Shit yea.... No wonder there is a problem.
You see how much electricity New Zealand uses compared to other islands? Our damn country is like a floating christmas tree.
A conspiricy I spy here.....and some are paid by big corporations (particulaly those close to the Bush administration) to say there is no problem. Who to believe? and is it better to be safe than sorry....?
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh sooner or late
And how can a man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his Gods
Loud and Uncouth
Was driving a '49 V8 F-1, it was so cold that the heater core INSIDE froze and split!
And the engine overheated as the water in the radiator froze - and the engine water couldn't circulate.
And the world MAY be getting warmer (but not down here at the mo.) but so what?
Winding up drongos, foil hat wearers and over sensitive KBers for over 14,000 posts...........
" Life is not a rehearsal, it's as happy or miserable as you want to make it"
One hell of a ride.
Well there's a lot of islanders who will stop being islanders in the first instance.
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Bloody warm today in Waiwhakamukau. Global warming must have kicked in over night.......
Hows July treating our Lower South Island friends....
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Global warming.
Number of unbiased & reputable scientists who say it is real: SHIT LOADS
Number of unbiased & reputable scientists who say it's a crock: SOME
So who's right? I dunno, but I'd put my money on the first group. And keep an open mind that they might be wrong.....
Safer to assume they are right and turn out wrong than the other way around.
One hell of a ride.
Thats easy for you to say - But it reads 'why fuck a moo cow' ????
Forum whore
Cos they're easier to catch than sheep.
\<\------look a bike
I'm quite tall....
Aargh, photos!
So what Global Warming going to do to me? Will it stop me riding a bike? If it has no direct effect on me then It doesnt intrest me.
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh sooner or late
And how can a man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his Gods
Night rider
Your first link is to the Hadley centre in the UK. Their data has already been discredited as being both land based and ,whats more, city based. It has not been corrected for UHI.
The sewcond link to NewScientist is just a collection of links to what are mainly news items. The only pseudo-scientific parts all refer to Mann Bradley & Hughes and the now infamousa hockey stick. Yes some of them do replicate the Hockey stick, but it has now been shown that using Mann's algorithm that even random data will give a hockey stick result.
As for world temperature being recorded for over a hundred years? Sorry, but there are very few weather stations with unbroken accurate records spanning that length of time, and no fixed sea based stations prior to 1972.
The only truely global temerature measurement is the MSU data which has only been recorded since 1979.
Time to ride
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