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| skot_e |
There has been quite a bit of media attention here this week around a Pacific Alliance meeting on climate change, mainly due to Australia and the U.S. being the only 2 countries not to ratify the Kyoto protocol.
I recently saw a report that the oil supplies are approaching a critical point where the demand is going to pass the ability of supply (not run out) possibly within 3-5 years. This would cause huge price increases and have a large economic impact globally.
The push for alternative energies is there, but is it really being implemented effectively?
Do you guys/girls believe your respective governments are doing enough?
Imagine what will happen if oil does become scarce. Life as we know it will be dramatically altered. Are people going to be able to go back to being hunter gatherers, or have we forgotten how to live like that? Look at the chaos in New Orleans and Pakistan. That would effectively happen everywhere, but there would be no help avaliable. |
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| Nrg2Nfinit |
i went skiing today at the best hill in eastern canada (mt tremblant) and it was all mush.. and +6 celcius.. this should be prime cold weather like -40 degrees with winchill
something is seriously wrong with the environment and i think governments should take this issue more seriously instead of depleating natural resources. |
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| Steven Hays |
| In Austin, we've had weather that for 22 days is above normal. Only one day it has been below since winter started. The rainfall this summer was horrible, with months on end before any kind of precipitation. I can't tell you the last time it has rained here actually. Something is seriously wrong. I've never been alive to witness such unseasonal weather.:conf: |
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| apostrophe |
how do we know warming isn't just part of the natural cycle of the earth climate? you do know that the earth is presently coming out of an ice age, and has been for the past 100,000 years or something?
If you look at what affects the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, I think you'll find that the human race is pretty damn low on the list... |
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| skot_e |
Perhaps, but carbon emisions from industry, and motor vehicles globally, even with improved technology, are still high, and with India and China undergoing rapid economic growth, more vehicles are on the road.
The average temp for 2005 was the highest on record (over 100 years) in Adelaide, and i dare say that is probably repeated elsewhere. There are island in the Pacific which are cosidereing building walls around their small shorelines to combat the rise in sea level. (Don't ask me which ones it was in the news paper 6 months ago) |
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| Ang ' ela_ie |
| Im studying GCC and the carbon cycle in grad school. |
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| Jocker |
Global warning, huh?
Yesterday was the coldest day in Siberia EVER, with temperatures going down as much as -60 Celsius (like -50 Fahrenheit). |
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| _Nut_ |
I had a big comment written up on global warming. But unlike ang, gcc isnt my forte. So I edited this and dont feel like wasting my breath on this topic.
Bottom line: There are 2 schools of thought in academia. Its happening, and its not happening. That is the absolute basic thought process I will outline here. Im not going into my beliefs, studies or anything. |
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| aria_clubber |
global warming yesssssssssss
i hate cold |
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| klingklang77 |
it is the middle of january in NY and we are having lots of rain with lightning and warm weather that is very unusual for january. it should be snowing now and COLD. but it isnt. i mean you can blame it on the fact that we arent doing enough, but if you look at the cycle of weather for the past billions of years, you will see there is ice ages etc. i dont think that there is much that we as humans can really do. i mean we can recycle and be environmentally aware, but that will help for what an extra hundred years, if even...
it is just the way the climate and this earth is. this planet cannot be inhabitable forever. look at mars etc, i am sure they had life at some point, but it died out. and it will probably happen to earth, but not in our lifetime. it is just the way it works and nothing that we can do as humans to stop this natural process. :( |
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| D-res |
| i went snowboarding last month but before, i got my board waxed and sharpened. when i came back, i strapped in and my friend and i rode to the top. while i went fast, i still had to unbuckle a few times and push myself to the lift lines, which shouldnt happen. the fact that its a consisten 40-50 degrees out every day here now is bull and i'm pissed. |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by _Nut_
I had a big comment written up on global warming. But unlike ang, gcc isnt my forte. So I edited this and dont feel like wasting my breath on this topic.
Bottom line: There are 2 schools of thought in academia. Its happening, and its not happening. That is the absolute basic thought process I will outline here. Im not going into my beliefs, studies or anything. |
haha, when i saw the thread title, "Global Warming" my first thought was, "hey, i wonder what _nut_ and Ang ' ela_ie think."
me personally, i'm not a fan of global warming. nor do i care to research anything about it. if i'm wrong and global warming kills us all, then i'll owe someone a Coke. |
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