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Topic started on 30-5-2007 @ 01:26 PM by thelibra

NASA: Only 10 Years Till Irreversable Climatic Danger Point


abcnews.go.com
Even "moderate additional" greenhouse emissions are likely to push Earth past "critical tipping points" with "dangerous consequences for the planet," according to research conducted by NASA and the Columbia University Earth Institute.

With just 10 more years of "business as usual" emissions from the burning of coal, oil and gas, says the NASA/Columbia paper, "it becomes impractical" to avoid "disastrous effects."

The study appears in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
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reply posted on 30-5-2007 @ 01:26 PM by thelibra
In a startling new report by NASA and Columbia University, the climatic "tipping point" for Earth is as few as ten years away, with far more dire effects than originally predicted. The previous estimate by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of 50 years has apparently been shown to be a gross underestimation. The acceleration of potentially uncontrollable feedback loops may wreak catastrophic havoc for mankind in the very near future.



I'm already expecting a few of the usual suspects to regurgitate the same naysaying about global warming, and arguments about the hockey-stick graph. I honestly wish there were a way to convince the less intelligent of the dire nature of humanity's predicament. But they will stand on the railroad track, with me pointing behind them at the train, and they will smugly smile and tell me the train whistle is nothing more than noise, the threat of the train is psy-ops propaganda, and the shaking of the track is nothing more than a regular, mild Earthquake.

All it would take is for them to turn around, and look at the train, but even then I suspect it would do no good. They would claim CGI effects were in use, edited footage to show only the parts that support the threat of an oncoming train, and would quite literally deny it right up until the train hits us.

What sickens me, what really utterly sickens me, is that I can't even step off the track because I'm chained to those people, as I am to every other person on Earth. We all share the same eventual fate if we destroy the ability of the planet to sustain human life. Those who refuse to acknowledge climate change, for whatever reason, are bad enough. But those who stand in the way of those who would do something about it, and actively seek to denigrate the cause, are taking an active part in the destruction of the human race. And they're really, really smug about it.

The message is dire. The threat is immediate. In the struggle against climate change, lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way.

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reply posted on 30-5-2007 @ 03:02 PM by AbitTweaked
And all I see are more and more scientists that are starting to read the information in front of them and turning away from the idea of man-made-global-warming and instead looking at a much more obvious, bright, ball in the sky...

As was pointed out recently... Retreating Glaciers in Greenland are revealing Silver-mines... Hmm. How did those get there under all that ice???
crotchetyoldbastard.com... www.kitcomm.com... *Note... Notice that is was on MSNBC and now cannot be located...

A Glacier in NewZealand has had posts put up as to it's location as it has been receding since 1750... www.cosis.net...

And while we lose square-miles of antartic ice there are many areas where ice is getting thicker... www.nationalcenter.org...

Multiple sources showing the sun is in a more active state then in the past thousand years... www.newscientist.com... www.washtimes.com...

But those are all just tiny little things...

So don't mind me since I am not rich... I drive a small car... I don't have a big "Carbon footprint". I just think that science should be allowed to go to work and find the answers and let politics/religion step aside and let the whitecoats do there work. But I know that will never happen.


reply posted on 30-5-2007 @ 05:20 PM by Byrd
Originally posted by InSpiteOf
Originally posted by JIMC5499
I seem to remember in Science class in 1975 that a Global Ice Age was just 10 years away. I remember in the 1980's that the hole in the ozone layer would allow the Sun to scorch the surface of the Earth in ten years. When I was real young I seem to remember hearing about how DDT was going to kill all of the birds in the world. I wonder what the next environmental emergency du juor will be?


So is it your contention that nothing is wrong with the planet and things will travel on as they have?

Im not going to bother asking for sources for your previous info, but just because we've been wrong in the past, doesnt mean we should ignore whats being said in the present. Changing our way of life to better suit the ecology of the planet would be a change for the good.


Actually, he's correct about the warnings there. What he doesn't take into account is that science has progressed since then, and we DID address some of those issues. There was a moratorium on the use of DDT and the eagles (greatly endangered from it) recovered, as did other birds.

We also stopped use of flourohydrocarbons after the hole in the ozone layer appeared. It ceased to be such an issue because we took steps to do something about it.

So, all those were actually brought up... they're real incidents. The difference is that the American people set an example for the rest of the world and negotiated and conducted treaties and EVERYONE acted to change the direction that things were headed.
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