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All the latest research predicts the Arctic will be ice free during the summer months by mid century. Antarctica is losing land based ice at an ever quickening pace, likewise the greenland glaciers are receding faster each year.
but are also getting thicker and expanding as of 2006
Originally posted by CranialSponge
The only thing humans are causing is their own demise, the planet will be fine.
Originally posted by dontlaughthink
reply to post by Atzil321
how does it [carbon dioxide] hold or bounce back infrared heat up in the atmosphere. ?
Originally posted by 4nsicphd
Originally posted by dontlaughthink
reply to post by Atzil321
how does it [carbon dioxide] hold or bounce back infrared heat up in the atmosphere. ?
...................And the atmosphere doesn't stratify by weight. The respective percentages of the various components in the atmosphere remain pretty isotropic from sea level up, primarily as a result of convective, advective and/or orographic lifting and mixing...........
Originally posted by STEADFast
HAHA! bow to your miserable religion of global warming, I mean climate change, I mean its called SEASONS
Originally posted by Essan
Originally posted by CranialSponge
The only thing humans are causing is their own demise, the planet will be fine.
True, but we're taking out a lot of other species with us (and already have).
Are we proud that we're causing a geological extinction event? Just because we want more money and can't figure out how to use the off switch?
If anyone is remembered, it'll be those who spoke up.
Originally posted by lpowell0627
reply to post by MamaJ
I agree with you that we have trashed the Earth. However, to think that drilling for oil has somehow created global warming is ridiculous. The dinosaurs would be left wondering who was drilling during their life should that be the case.
Even if you want to argue that humans have contributed to, and sped up global warming by say 100 years....1000 years....it doesn't matter one bit.
1000 years is not even a drop in the bucket when you consider the planet as a whole. We are so insignificant in so many ways yet our egos have somehow let us believe that we can, if we throw enough money at it, stop the entire planets periods of cleansing and renewal.
People should clean up the Earth because it's the right thing to do. Not because we think that it will prevent the Sahara Desert from ONCE AGAIN becoming fertile, lush land.
Fracking, drilling for oil, pollution, creating weather events, oil spills, machines deep within the earth spinning unknown particles and the list goes on and on. I do not know how all of the above, if any of the above causes harm to the Earth but speculation and research leads me to believe Man is a complete fool for messing with the Earth the way he has. The Earth is living. We are depleting her blood (oil) and one day she may not be able to compensate with us inhabiting her and she may very well deplete us so she can sustain her own life. Like getting rid of a cancer so to speak. We are taking away her natural resources and placing an alternative into deep fracking holes. Sad. We trash her oceans and spill oil ....the dangers to the Oceans imo have been downplayed. The oceans are telling us they are ill. Ice caps melting, more methane, rising and warming oceans are not a good thing. We know very little about our planet, oceans, and solar system. We are in an infancy stage in regards to what we truly know to be facts. It doesn't seem as though we have much respect for where we live and in the long run we may just wish we had taken better care of our home.
haha ye, first it was called Global warming then when the warming stopped they called it climate change,next it will be called "Weather Terror" lol
Originally posted by jonnywhite
Originally posted by 4nsicphd
Originally posted by dontlaughthink
reply to post by Atzil321
how does it [carbon dioxide] hold or bounce back infrared heat up in the atmosphere. ?
...................And the atmosphere doesn't stratify by weight. The respective percentages of the various components in the atmosphere remain pretty isotropic from sea level up, primarily as a result of convective, advective and/or orographic lifting and mixing...........
Are you saying that lighter elements like helium can be found near the surface, rather than far out in the exosphere or whatever? Or are you saying that it's not strictly by atomic weight? Because I was told in class that denser elements tend towards the surface.edit on 5-10-2011 by jonnywhite because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by malcr
Wow, the level of knowledge about chemistry and physics expressed here is phenomenally low. If that ignorance is reflected in the people who need to make decisions then we are truly screwed.
The only saving grace is that maybe the level of ignorance shown by the deniers is a reflection of our modern texting/tabloid/blogging/tweeting way of life where we simply can't absorb any information spread over more than two paragraphs. Climate physics requires reading of analysis that goes over several pages......Denial via cherry picking can be tweeted.
I have gone to the denial websites I have read what they have to say and their evidence is cherry picked nonsense and broad brush statements based on no more evidence than a finger in the air. Ironically enough EVERY SINGLE MECHANISM expressed by deniers as a cause for warming has been thoroughly investigated and proven to be false. But hey ho let's not let truth get in the way shall we. Ignorance is bliss......