Earth Temperature Close To One Million Year High

[Asterix]

No, pappy the sky isn't falling. The earth is heating up. The lead reseacher was from NASA's Goddard Institute, and paints a pretty bleak picture.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15003895/

 

[MarkII]

When they put a Sandals Resort in North Bay I'll believe it.

M2

 

[papasmerf]

So who has been keeping the nunbers?

 

[WoodPeckr]

Fear not!
Watch for Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, who are staffed with 'the best scientists money can buy', come up with a counter-report dismissing all that evidence as fantasy!

Their response will claim it was all the results of 'icebeg-hugging' liberals out to sully the fine names of Exxon, Mobil, Texaco!.......

 

[papasmerf]

Fear not!
Watch for Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, who are staffed with 'the best scientists money can buy', come up with a counter-report dismissing all that evidence as fantasy!

Their response will claim it was all the results of 'icebeg-hugging' liberals out to sully the fine names of Exxon, Mobil, Texaco!.......

THE SKY IS FALLING

 

[WoodPeckr]

pops, like the recently 'put on ice', Laddie, is a true blind believer willing to without question, swallow anything Team 'w' shovels down his throat!.......

 

[papasmerf]

You're either totally innocent of the constant stream
of information coming out of the science community,
or you're intentionally ignoring the obvious.

Problem is that there's huge potential markets and
profits for those that get into the green industry
today. But, the old money controls the political
agenda and they want to keep their share of the
market.

Don I acknowledge the fact that many people of science feel the earth is headed twards a cataclysmic end, resulting from heat.

However I subscribe to this being a natural cycle. I also note that there are indications that the earth was once covered by ice and that seems to have passed. This seems to suggest that the earth has been involved in a warming trend for centuries. Even before the dastardly automobiles and factories ever existed.

I suggest those who belive that banning autos will solve this. Sell theirs and walk or ride a horse. Untill such time suitable replacements comes about.

 

[Asterix]

THE SKY IS FALLING

Pappy, I anticipated your response and told you it wasn't necessary. I'm guessing science wasn't your best subject in school.

 

[papasmerf]

Pappy, I anticipated your response and told you it wasn't necessary. I'm guessing science wasn't your best subject in school.

I did well just quested the idea of basing fact on theory. Still do.

Don't forget that just a few centuries ago, people knew the world was flat.

 

[Papi Chulo]

I am hoping it gets warmer and ocean levels rise... I want tropical beachfront property

 

[shack]

However I subscribe to this being a natural cycle.

And tell us in what previous cycle the temperature was this high.

And tell us in what previous cycle the amount of carbon in the atmosphere was as high as currently.

And tell us why it's just a coincidence that the scientists prediction of temperature rising concurrently with carbon levels is exactly what's happening.

 

[papasmerf]

And tell us in what previous cycle the temperature was this high.

And tell us in what previous cycle the amount of carbon in the atmosphere was as high as currently.

And tell us why it's just a coincidence that the scientists prediction of temperature rising concurrently with carbon levels is exactly what's happening.

I do not pretend to have the figures on temperature. As far as I know it has been recorded for the past 140 years or so. Beyond that is conjecture.

 

[Asterix]

Don't forget that just a few centuries ago, people knew the world was flat.

Yeah, and I'm pretty sure if you had been living at the time, you would have been one of the last to give it up.

 

[papasmerf]

Yeah, and I'm pretty sure if you had been living at the time, you would have been one of the last to give it up.

Likely I would have questioned the moving horizon. And set off to see the edge.

 

[Asterix]

Likely I would have questioned the moving horizon. And set off to see the edge.

Mores the pity.

 

[basketcase]

And tell us in what previous cycle the temperature was this high.

When there were evergreens in the antarctic.

And tell us in what previous cycle the amount of carbon in the atmosphere was as high as currently.

Dinosaur time rings a bell.

And tell us why it's just a coincidence that the scientists prediction of temperature rising concurrently with carbon levels is exactly what's happening.

Unlike some, I believe that there is a combination of Human impact and natural cycles. I'm not worried for the earth. So what if we get wiped out.

 

[shack]

I do not pretend to have the figures on temperature. As far as I know it has been recorded for the past 140 years or so. Beyond that is conjecture.

In that case your reasoning for not addressing the problem "because it is a cycle" is based on conjecture since this supposed previous cycle of high temperatures you refer to was more than 140 years ago.

 

[papasmerf]

If you really want to do some good

If you would like to really do some good. Plant more trees and flowers. Slow or stop the destruction of the rainforests. Work to reverse what has been done to the earth by building lagre cities with little or no green space. Support PHOTOSYNTHESIS. Help reverse the CO and add some parks while you are at it.

 

[papasmerf]

In that case your reasoning for not addressing the problem "because it is a cycle" is based on conjecture since this supposed previous cycle of high temperatures you refer to was more than 140 years ago.

No in reality, I do not see it as a problem, as presented.

 

[Asterix]

No in reality, I do not see it as a proble, as presented.

Then you choose to live in blissful ignorance. What are you pappy, nearly 50? If I remember correctly we were born in the same year. Likely it isn't going to affect us that bad. The next generations are going to catch hell.