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Regardless of the debate on IF we are chaging it, I ask, so what?
Originally posted by Quest
I don't understand why people are all worked up over climate change. The earth has seen MANY diferent global climates and yet we are still here.
Originally posted by sardion2000
Quest do you think Humanity would be able to survive a snowball earth?
Originally posted by Umbrax
If things get real bad the oceans will evaporate into space. Nothing will survive that.
Global Warming, Who Cares.
I do.
Eventually temperatures will become high enough so that the oceans evaporate. At 140 degrees Fahrenheit, water becomes a major constituent of the atmosphere. Much of this water migrates to the stratosphere where it is lost to the vacuum.
At 60 degrees Celsius (140 degrees Fahrenheit), water becomes a major constituent of the atmosphere. Much of this water drifts up to the stratosphere and is lost into space. Eventually, all the oceans will leak out of the Earth's grasp.
Originally posted by Quest
I don't understand why people are all worked up over climate change. The earth has seen MANY diferent global climates and yet we are still here.
Originally posted by Umbrax
Global Warming, Who Cares.
I do.
Originally posted by cmdrkeenkid
As for the oceans boiling off the Earth, I really enjoy how you cleverly left off that that would be an effect caused by the dying Sun and NOT from human caused global warming. And you say you're not fear-mongering.
[edit on 3/15/2005 by cmdrkeenkid]
If things get real bad the oceans will evaporate into space. Nothing will survive that.
What's 70 years out of 4 billion? That's about .00000000175% of the Earth's weather history. So how can it be that humanity knows so much about the world and its history?
Originally posted by Umbrax
I was pointing out the fact that if the Earth got hot enough the oceans would evaporate. [...] Because the links are dealing with the dying sun is irrelevant. Does this change the fact that the oceans will evaporate at 140 degrees? No.
Originally posted by Quest
To even get the ocean temperatures to 30 degress C you'd need to burn all the oil on the planet, set off every nuke, have many volcanoes go off, and channel all of that energy directly into the oceans. Its simple thermodynamic. The oceans are vast and deep and very cold.
Europe and Asia have been documenting climate for the past 1000 years. The ice caps contain records of the prehistoric climates.
4 billion years ago was the time that life started to show up, as bacteria in the oceans. How can this be compared to life today?
The fact of the matter is Global warming will change life as we know it. I will not sit here and watch people say we don't need to worry or there is nothing we can do.
The proper thing to do would be to just prepare for the impending future.
Originally posted by cmdrkeenkid
It's not those doing the polluting that are the main cause of global warming. Sure, some of it is from companies. But the majority is just from nature taking its course. I don't deny that mankind is slighty speeding this process up, but the fact is no matter what steps are taken to stop pollution, global warming is still going to happen.