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Pontoonfisher
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Global Warming
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6/10/2011 8:27:25 AM
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So what does everyone think of this topic now. 102 in DC today. In my lifetime (short 38 yrs) it seems the weather has been getting more extreme in the past 10 years. Normal cycle of the Earth, maybe. Only time will tell. The engineer side of me just can't ignore the fact that huge amounts of greenhouse gases are being pumped into the atmosphere and we expect that to have no effect.
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MartiniMan
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Globaloney
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6/10/2011 8:41:34 AM
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Its really two questions and the answer to the first is there is no evidence, zero, none that there are more weather extremes today than in the past. What I think you are experiencing is information overload. You perceive more extreme weather because the accessibility of information is so much greater today than even ten years ago that you hear about every unusual weather condition. This is one of the reasons why as a group, meteorologists and widely skeptical of the whole global warming business. They understand weather, weather patterns and historical weather conditions.
The second question is, even if the climate is changing, what is man's contribution? This is an area of some debate but there is lots of evidence that man's influence on the climate is negligible.
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Pontoonfisher
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Globaloney
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6/10/2011 9:14:43 AM
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Again only time will tell. I just can't see how releasing millions of tons of gases can't affect the atmosphere. Leave a car running in the garage and guess what, it changes the atmosphere in the garage. It's the same idea with our planet just on a much larger scale. I'm not some climate freak but common sense tells me that we do have an effect.
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Summer Lover
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Globaloney
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6/10/2011 9:36:47 AM (updated 6/10/2011 9:37:11 AM)
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Back in the '70's we were going to freeze because the very same gases would block the sun, leaving the earth's core and hopefully human actions to warm us. When someone can explain to me why we now have Lake Martin instead of glaciers down there, and yet there is no evidence that T Rex had cars, grills, or industry - I will sit down and listen to their "logic".
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muddauber
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Globaloney
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6/10/2011 10:27:15 AM
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Man has always seemed to have too large an idea of itself. No doubt we have contributed huge amounts of pollutants, but so has every volcanic eruption. Questions not answered is just how much of what can our ecosystem cleanse itself of, and corralary to that is what must we do?
I've watched with great interest as those who stand to gain promote this idea of the advanced countries spending huge amounts of monies for miniscule results. If it is so important to reduce pollution, why not create a reasonable fee and use those monies to aide the developing countries do things better now. That would generate much, much greater results for far less monies. To me that is the kind of aide money that makes sense.
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MartiniMan
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Globaloney
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6/10/2011 3:27:54 PM
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Don't fixate on the tons of gases but look at it as a percentage of total atmospheric gases. The CO2 content from man-made emissions is miniscule. The total volume of greenhouse gases emitted by man in all of our industrial history is less than what was emitted by the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883. We are so arrogant about our ability to alter this planet.
If man went away tomorrow the earth will still be here. All the stuff we have built will eventually go to dust. Relax and quit worrying about this crap because it is not real......
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alahusker
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Global Warming
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6/10/2011 6:25:48 PM
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I really don't know I read somewhere that Australia is issuing bounties on feral camels, using helicopters and automatic guns . The critters were introduced there several decades ago because they would be beneficial .. Justification for killing them is that they introduce too much CO2 in the atmosphere, therefore promoting global warming.. Good idea, guess, shoot them from a helicopter, let them rot and no CO2. Should reduce the global temperature several degrees..
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Packrat
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Global Warming
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6/11/2011 6:38:53 AM
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Thank Mother for her wisdom,she has been warming for the last 10000 years.Kind of like swimming in the lake every summer.
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