Where's The Global Warming?
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<div class="IPBDescription">...that's the stuff, CO2</div> So...yea, it's -13 degrees Fahrenheit outside (...uhh, -10ish C I think), without the wind chill. I want to know what happened to global warming.
I want 50 degree winters and 120 degree summers, repeal the pollution standards, start belching out the CO2, chloroflourocarbons and sulfurous gases.
Winter is the time that makes me think all the enviromentalists are smoking doobies (which is the real cause of global warming <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo--> ). I mean, come on, there's plenty of other things that can raise the temperature of the world by 1 degree over a decade. Solar flares, natural cloud cover, geothermal activity (...El Nino and La Nina). But noooo, it's all the factories....nothing else.
I demand everyone start polluting, get me some global warming over here.
I want 50 degree winters and 120 degree summers, repeal the pollution standards, start belching out the CO2, chloroflourocarbons and sulfurous gases.
Winter is the time that makes me think all the enviromentalists are smoking doobies (which is the real cause of global warming <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo--> ). I mean, come on, there's plenty of other things that can raise the temperature of the world by 1 degree over a decade. Solar flares, natural cloud cover, geothermal activity (...El Nino and La Nina). But noooo, it's all the factories....nothing else.
I demand everyone start polluting, get me some global warming over here.
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This happens every year, I can't wait for winter, then when it comes, I hate it like no other. I'll do as much as I can to ruin the enviroment right now. Screw the animals, my footies are cooooold.
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Thank you Lewis Black. lol
Also, global warming is a gradual process. Although unnoticable now the temperatures will gradually rise by a few degrees over the decades.
That may sound like a long time but given past climactic change (over thousands of years) its quite dramatic.
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Enviormentalists are pretty smart, they predict we will all be dead from Global Warming/Cooling in 100+ years. Of course, in 100+ years anyone concerned with global anything will be dead and free from any fallout should their predictions be wrong.
thats a pretty major change, and weve also had much less snow than usual. winter still sucks, but global warming is no hoax.
now heres the real issue. keep in mind that global warming is global, okay it happens everywhere. now what do you think happens at the poles? it isnt like warm ocean then icebergs like bam! see its a gradual change, if you were swimming the temps would change a tiny bit every few dozen miles.
now lets imagine the 100 mile band between icebergs and glaciers. imagine that goes up 2 degrees. now see those icebergs melt and the next band 100 miles north of that changes from glaciers to icebergs.
thats 200 miles of icebergs just turned into water. now that water flows around the earth, yay right? no. crap.
see, the global ocean levels just rose six inches. louisiana and britain's coastal property go underwater. hm. billion dollar hotels are now under a half foot of water. now so awesome anymore is it?
well my winters still too cold, lets warm it up another 10 degrees, move the glacier line up another 400 miles, and submerge northern europe and manhattan. well, whos happy now? manhattan under even two inches of water would kind of destroy our economy, thanks.
prove me wrong.
"Wow, thank god Global Warming never happened."
"Oh it did, but Nuclear Winter canceled it out."
Its all to do with ocean slipstreams (cant remember the proper name) theres one that comes down from the artic area and runs down the west side of the us, then theres also one that runs from the us over to britain.
Now if the world gets hotter, the ice bergs in the artic will melt and break off faster, speading into the slipstream more. Causeing the water to be colder.
This won't bother the us much as its not actually that close to land, however the one that goes to britain hits it directly.
Lower water temperatures, even of a few celcius, causes major climate problems.
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Also, global warming is a gradual process. Although unnoticable now the temperatures will gradually rise by a few degrees over the decades.
That may sound like a long time but given past climactic change (over thousands of years) its quite dramatic. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Cronos got it right here. What's worse, if the average water temperature rises above a certain critical limit (two or three degrees above the current standard if I recall correctly), these belts will simply dissapear, thus leaving the world without its major temperature leverage. The equatorial areas will become boiling plates, but the rest will experience a very sudden temperature drop, which in turn will mean that glaciers will grow again, thus reducing the complete planets average temperature. This whole process can break over us in as few as ten years of drastic heating and then cooling, at whichs end we would see a new <i>ice age</i>.
Have fun blowing those CO2s up, fellas! I'll go and make a fortune selling fur coats in <i>Miami</i>.