Just in case you believed it...
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This study sponsored by Exxon and Shell. 
Seriously, here in Montreal we've had the worst month of December in decades and our winters are now alternating between weeks of bone-crushing cold and then weeks of above zero temperatures. :thumbsdown: The city looks like a huge ice rink at times. :x I don't know what to think anymore. Could the politicians have been lying to us? :roll:
Seriously, here in Montreal we've had the worst month of December in decades and our winters are now alternating between weeks of bone-crushing cold and then weeks of above zero temperatures. :thumbsdown: The city looks like a huge ice rink at times. :x I don't know what to think anymore. Could the politicians have been lying to us? :roll:vachss said:
Peak Oil.... That is if you believe that hydrocarbon based fuels are made by little critters, forests, and dinosaurs that died millions of years ago.
Russian Scientists believe that oil is made just like CH4 is made by the planet - oil is made when the pressure/temperature is increased. Sort of like how coal can become a diamond under appropriate pressures and temperatures.
http://www.gasresources.net/
Needless to say - it would be nice if we could have cleaner fuels. I do not worry about Global Warming but I do not like pollution. I think that Global Warming is real and is based on the Solar Cycle. After all temperatures on Mars are increasing and last time I looked there were no SUV's there.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1720024.ece
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=17977
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_ice-age_031208.html
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/sciencetech/homepage/article_1643955.php
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=192
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast09feb_1.htm
I think that should be enough links.
Global warming.. :roll: ...
And they have my favorite girl pictured to his right! :lol:
And they have my favorite girl pictured to his right! :lol:
CaZ4 said:
I think the global warming crowd do not deny the natural process of global warming and global cooling. A vast majority of paleontologists believe that the mass extinctions that occured before the last one (the dinosaurs 65M years ago) were probably due to severe fluctuations in the Earth climate. What I think Al Gore is trying to say is that we may be giving global warming the little push it needs to generate a series of cataclysmic events that may affect a large portion of the Earth's population.
Imagine monsoon weather in London for an extended period of time. The city is at sea level. What happens when the ground is saturated with rain water? The additional rainwater floods everything. :thumbsdown: I think that Al Gore believes that humanity can change its polluting ways in order for the Earth to go through its cycle without destroying humankind in the process. I am not trying to be dramatic but everything looked fine to the giant amphibians and plant eaters of the Permian era (225M years ago) when suddenly the Earth warmed up and forests/lakes became deserts, wiping roughly 90% of all species on Earth.
What was left on land was a species of small reptiles that evolved into the mighty dinosaurs of the late Cretaceous, who got wiped out also 65M years ago. And the cycle goes on.
Cheers.
pmeloche, check my post about Global Warming on Mars above. There are no people causing Warming on the planet Mars.
It is all due to the Solar cycle and according to predictions we should hit a sustained cold period in the next 4-5 years.... becasue guess what? The Sun is going to cool down a bit!
It is all due to the Solar cycle and according to predictions we should hit a sustained cold period in the next 4-5 years.... becasue guess what? The Sun is going to cool down a bit!
enfield, tell Mars to use only 3 squares of toilet paper!! That's what Sheryl Crow told college students to do during a 'speech'
How about those little green guys on Mars? :wink: What I tried to convey is that the additional greenhouse effect gases released by our industrialized world could be a cause for the speed up of global warming effects that would affect dramatically the human race. It probably took centuries to wipe out those species of the Permian era. We may not have that kind of time.
It's getting confusing as to who believe. On the one hand we have the proponents of global warming who are advocating decades of warming with disastrous consequences and then others predict "global cooling" in the next 4-5 years. I know I am.
That Sheryl Crow, what a comedian.
It's getting confusing as to who believe. On the one hand we have the proponents of global warming who are advocating decades of warming with disastrous consequences and then others predict "global cooling" in the next 4-5 years. I know I am.
That Sheryl Crow, what a comedian.
aper:enfield said:^^^ I love America and Americans. However, as a true friend I am truthful about America's greatness in a lot of things - but not everything.
I lived in the US for 6 years and loved it. It is the best foreign nation to visit as far as I am concerned
We are learning...just like the rest (well, most of us) of the planet.