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Pretty good ideas/theories about Global Warming.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF_anaVcCXg
A-are we all gonna die?..
Why would we? Only some of us would die.
Seriously. Everyone could just move steadily away from the equater until the economies of the world collapse in a way that would plateu carbon emissions. Or you could come to your senses and realize that people are making a much bigger deal out of global warming than anybody should be.
It's true that some sort of "global" warming will occur in the future, but not all life will be absent. It's true that many of us multi-cell organisms will go extinct, but there is still a hope for life. Single-cell organisms can survive the extreme climates that are to be in the future, they will do as they did in the past. They will rebuild the atmosphere.
The planet's not going to warm up by more than a dozen degrees until the sun becomes a red giant and envelops it
That dozen is, of course, enough to melt the ice caps, displaying most of the world's population, as most of the world's population lives on coastlines.
Is that a baker's dozen or?
Popisfizzy wrote:
That dozen is, of course, enough to melt the ice caps, displaying most of the world's population, as most of the world's population lives on coastlines.

If the dinosaurs and our rat-like ancestors can handle it, so can I.
Note that dinosaurs and our rat-like ancestors didn't have largely permanant, extremely structured habitats that require a lot of resources to build and maintain, nor did they consume, per capita, nearly as much as we do.
Elation wrote:
Is that a baker's dozen or?

No, regular dozen. Only bakers can use baker's dozens.
The biggest threat is to agriculture, and a threat of flooding to low-lying regions - generally, that's third-world asian nations. Hurricanes are still up in the air (no pun intended) with arguments that they'll get worse/get better in the scientific literature.

Spread of disease may also be an issue - climate change may allow some previously tropical diseases to spread out a bit more.

Oh, and some theories of the dinosaur's demise posit climate change as the cause - and not in the sense of "the climate changed because a bloody great meteorite hit the Earth"
Jp wrote:
The biggest threat is to agriculture, and a threat of flooding to low-lying regions - generally, that's third-world asian nations. Hurricanes are still up in the air (no pun intended) with arguments that they'll get worse/get better in the scientific literature.

Spread of disease may also be an issue - climate change may allow some previously tropical diseases to spread out a bit more.

Oh, and some theories of the dinosaur's demise posit climate change as the cause - and not in the sense of "the climate changed because a bloody great meteorite hit the Earth"

They debunked the "climate change on its' own" theory.
Climate shifts, a lot. Climate changes are a regular cycle, albeit a long one. There have been multiple ice ages, as evidence.
At the very least, the change caused by the meteorite impact (Which is, yes, the most supported theory) is what actually killed the dinosaurs. Of course, that was going the other way - sort of a nuclear winter effect.
AHH i say 2 hell wid global warming itz are fault anyway.
Did my post prompt you to ask this?
what i have to say about global warming is earth doesnt go in a straight circle so sometimes its closer to the sun and sometimes its not. i think the scientists know this but they want their pay.or they are just thinking for more complicated soulutions
Hgyuf wrote:
what i have to say about global warming is earth doesnt go in a straight circle so sometimes its closer to the sun and sometimes its not. i think the scientists know this but they want their pay.or they are just thinking for more complicated soulutions

Buddy, you are a moron. The Earth follows an elliptic pattern, but that is a yearly motion. If you were right, then global warming would be relative to seasons, not years, or decades, or damn near a century.
Hgyuf, just no. Global warming is in no way related to Milankovitch cycles, the ellipticity of the Earth's orbit, or anything varying the solar output we receive on Earth.

They can certainly be factors, but global warming based on greenhouse gas emissions best fits the current known data - specifically, that some layers of the atmosphere are /cooling/ while others are warming - which is predicted by climate models.
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