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Global warming- past point of no return

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Monday, September 26, 2005 7:13 AM

CITIZEN


Your argument seems to be, we don't know so lets stick our heads in the sand and carry on poisoning the enviroment...
Surely it would be best to assume it is happening? Cleaning up our act is not going to harm us in any great deal if it isn't happening, but not doing anything if it is...

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Monday, September 26, 2005 7:19 AM

AURAPTOR

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Quote:

Originally posted by citizen:
Your argument seems to be, we don't know so lets stick our heads in the sand and carry on poisoning the enviroment...
Surely it would be best to assume it is happening? Cleaning up our act is not going to harm us in any great deal if it isn't happening, but not doing anything if it is...

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Thanks for putting words in my mouth. If you're suggesting we 'clean up our act', fine... I'm all in favor of that. Cleaner burning fuels, recycling, conserving energy,...heck yeah, I do my part there. But if you mean something on the level of, say, the Kyoto Protocol, then I disagree. Even Tony Blair has come to realize what a fiasco that misguided treaty would be.

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Monday, September 26, 2005 7:29 AM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:
Thanks for putting words in my mouth.


I didn't put words in your mouth. I said seems, as in my interpretation, my interpretation of what you were saying was evidently wrong. But I was not putting words in your mouth.

I am curious though, what exactly are your reservations on the Kyoto Protocol, or schemes on that scale?

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Monday, September 26, 2005 8:36 AM

SIGNYM

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Auraptor- I am curious as to what you place in the category of "myth". I'm not sure if you think global wamring is ocurring- you seem to waffle on that point. (At times you say
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You start w/ the premise that global warming is true. I don't
At other times you say
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Man is not the cause for any global warming.
which presupposes that ti exists. So, can you come down on either side of the question on this one?


Also, since I'm trying to figure out what you consider as "fact" and what you consider as "myth" please be so kind as to answer my previous questions:

Are carbon dioxide and methane greenhouse gases?
Or, more broadly, do you think there are a class of gases that transmit visible light and absorb infrared?

Does soot efficiently convert visible light to infrared radiation?

Does the albedo of the Earth's surface affect global energy balance?

Still trying to figure out your logical and factual framework.




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Monday, September 26, 2005 9:16 AM

BARNSTORMER


Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:
Quote:

Originally posted by citizen:
Your argument seems to be, we don't know so lets stick our heads in the sand and carry on poisoning the enviroment...
Surely it would be best to assume it is happening? Cleaning up our act is not going to harm us in any great deal if it isn't happening, but not doing anything if it is...

Zen Buddhist to the Hotdog Vendor:
"Make me one with everything."



Thanks for putting words in my mouth. If you're suggesting we 'clean up our act', fine... I'm all in favor of that. Cleaner burning fuels, recycling, conserving energy,...heck yeah, I do my part there. But if you mean something on the level of, say, the Kyoto Protocol, then I disagree. Even Tony Blair has come to realize what a fiasco that misguided treaty would be.

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "



Auraptor,

I think that your views are much the same as mine.

Here is a summation,

1. I believe in Global Warming

2. I believe in Global Cooling

3. I believe that 1 and 2 above are a natural phenomemom.

4. I am not convinced that "Global Warming" is caused by man made pollution.

5. I am not convinced that man made pollution has absolutely no part in "Global Warming".

6 I am convinced that the scientific community does not know enough about long term climate change and the cause of them.

7 I am convinced that "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing".

8. Due to 7 above I am totally against proposed fixes to "Global Warming" such as burying CO2 (carbon dumps).

9. I am convinced that eliminating man made pollution is a good idea. Not because of "global warming", but because it is a good idea.

10. I am convinced that people who contribute to the "Global Warming" hysteria are part of the problem, not a part of the cure.





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Monday, September 26, 2005 9:17 AM

HERO


Quote:

Originally posted by SignyM:
No, you are demanding "hundreds" of years of statistics to make the case for global warming,


Leading experts disagree about global warming. Thus we have to look at what evidence we have of past centuries. That evidence does not consider the recent weather or climate issues to be unusual. If anything they fit a larger typical pattern that can be traced back thousands of years.

Now, I'm no expert, but I can predict that the coming century will see hurricanes, floods, blizzards, droughts, earthquakes, Tsunamis, tornados, and extinctions.

Ooops, I was referring to the 20th Century...or maybe the 19th...hmmm, could have been the 18th...nope, definately the 17th, yep...wait, forgot the 16th...no, no definately the 15th...damn those 14th century storms was sumtin fierce they were...and Sygny, remember the mid 13th Century, those were wild times...but nothing compared to the 12th...now the 11th was nothing special...not at all like the 10th, what being the turn of the millenium, now that was the end of the world for you....but then there was...

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Monday, September 26, 2005 10:18 AM

SIGNYM

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Hero, its awfully nice of you to stick up for Auraptor, but your post contributed NOTHING to the discussion. BTw- you "forgot" to add the context of my comment to Auraptor- which was that (s)he is willing to accept only six years of Mars data (of unknown significance) simply because it fits in with his pre-concieved notions but requires "hundreds" of years of data for an idea that he doesn't "believe" in. My point wsa that the data filtration was rather heavy.

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Monday, September 26, 2005 10:44 AM

BARNSTORMER


Quote:

Originally posted by SignyM:
Hero, its awfully nice of you to stick up for Auraptor, but your post contributed NOTHING to the discussion. BTw- you "forgot" to add the context of my comment to Auraptor- which was that (s)he is willing to accept only six years of Mars data (of unknown significance) simply because it fits in with his pre-concieved notions but requires "hundreds" of years of data for an idea that he doesn't "believe" in. My point wsa that the data filtration was rather heavy.

Please don't think they give a shit.



Yes, just like the Mann report and the infamous "Hockey Stick" graph. The data filtration was rather heavy. Of course that did'nt stop it from being quoted as proof of "Global Warming" ad naseum.

Bye the way, I think Auraptor was referring to one of these reports (in relation to Mars Climate):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/18/wsun18
.xml


There are more like it if you look for it. It's more research, more possible links to the current warming trend. More information to add to the puzzle. After all, as any true engineer or scientist will tell you:

Information is the Key, and without the key, the door to true understanding remains locked.







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Monday, September 26, 2005 10:57 AM

BARNSTORMER


Oh, bye the way, SignyM and Rue,

Please explain to me why, if the global temperature is as high now, as it was during the mideival warming period, how come we did'nt pass the point of no return back then?

Come to think of it, there were'nt a whole lot of cars and stuff to produce man made pollution back then, so why in the heck did it get so hot in the first place?





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Tuesday, September 27, 2005 3:47 AM

SIGNYM

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There are more like it if you look for it. It's more research, more possible links to the current warming trend.
I did actually look for it. In fact, I posted more links to the concept than Auraptor. But since it was Auraptor's idea, I think the burden of looking for evidence is on him, not me, which is why I REPEATEDLY asked for correlative data on sunspots and Earth's climate. Which Auraptor rather pointedly did not provide.

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Tuesday, September 27, 2005 4:12 AM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by Hero:
Ooops, I was referring to the 20th Century...or maybe the 19th...hmmm, could have been the 18th...nope, definately the 17th, yep...wait, forgot the 16th...no, no definately the 15th...damn those 14th century storms was sumtin fierce they were...and Sygny, remember the mid 13th Century, those were wild times...but nothing compared to the 12th...now the 11th was nothing special...not at all like the 10th, what being the turn of the millenium, now that was the end of the world for you....but then there was...

In Ohio it rained all day today. God help us all.


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Tuesday, October 4, 2005 4:38 PM

RUE

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IF the global temperature is as high now, as it was during the mideival (sic) warming period
Big if.


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Wednesday, October 5, 2005 3:51 AM

BARNSTORMER


Quote:

Originally posted by rue:
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IF the global temperature is as high now, as it was during the mideival (sic) warming period
Big if.


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No, not so big. It's born of the same data that is used to show that Global warming is happening.

Can't have it both ways. To even try is to undermine your whole point.


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Wednesday, October 5, 2005 6:44 AM

HANS


Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:
Call me a skeptic, but I'm still not buying this 'Global warming ' bit as being anything more than the Earth's natural cycle. We might not understand it or how it all works, but there's a history of the Earth that predates man. Virtually all of it,actually. The Mesozoic inland sea which covered the interior of the United States...you think they got lots of water in New Orleans after Katrina!



This is one of the arguments I hear most from global warming nay-sayers, and it's one of the ones that frustrates me more than anything.

Yes, there has always been a variation in temperature over time on the earth. But it's always been gradual changes over a period of thousands of years. What we are noticing now is a rapid, noticeable, unprecedented change that's taking place at exactly the same time as a huge increase in industrial output. Look at a graph, and the correlation between the two is undeniable.

And note that I said correlation, not causation. The environment is an extremely complicated system, and "proving" that one thing causes another is essentially impossible. It's the old "butterfly flaps it's wings in Tokyo, causing a hurricane in Mexico" thing - you'd never be able to track your way backwards from the hurricane to the butterfly and prove that it caused the event. Likewise, you'd never be able to "prove" that Katrina (or the recent droughts in Europe, or the other examples of extreme weather we've seen) had anything to do with global warming and human activity, so nay-sayers like you can always shrug their shoulders, hop into their SUV, and drive away.

(And no, I'm not saying that Katrina specifically had anything to do with global warming. I'm saying it's possible there's some relation between the two, and even if there isn't, Katrina is a perfect example of what will be happening if we don't take action now.)

So if you can't prove a connection between human activity and environmental change, what's left? All you can do is make reasonable guesses about what's happening and go with the most likely answer. The simple fact is that there's near consensus in the scientific community (if you leave out those scientists who work directly for big oil, or are in the pocket of the Republican party) that human activity is having a negative effect on our environment. Is it provable, in an absolute sense? No. Is it a reasonable conclusion based on what we've observed? Absolutely, yes.

I'm curious if the anti-environmentalists think that human-caused global warming is a complete fiction, or if they just think it is simply unlikely? The reason I ask is, most people take reasonable precautions to avoid a disater even when they think a disaster is unlikely. Almost everyone who owns a house has fire insurance, yet the chance of your house burning down is extremely low (1 in 1000? 1 in 10,000? Lower?). So why do people own house insurance? Because the consequences of your house burning down are so horrific, it's better to take precautions. So, global warming sceptics, what do you think the odd are that the environmentalists are right? 1 in 100? 1 in 20? At what point are the odds high enough that you think it's worth taking precautions?

Last, but not least, just because there's been ice ages and other examples of extreme weather in pre-history is no reason to think that it's something that it would be easy to survive this time. Yes, the Earth itself might survive, but that doesn't mean we will. If global warming is inevitable and has nothing to do with human activity, all we can do is hunker down and get ready for some miserable decades ahead. But if there's even the tiniest chance that it's human caused, shouldn't we try to do something before it's too late?

Hans

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Wednesday, October 5, 2005 9:23 AM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by Hans:
Yes, there has always been a variation in temperature over time on the earth. But it's always been gradual changes over a period of thousands of years. What we are noticing now is a rapid, noticeable, unprecedented change that's taking place at exactly the same time as a huge increase in industrial output. Look at a graph, and the correlation between the two is undeniable.


Thank you, that is a point I tried to raise earlier on, but unfortunately it was ignored.
The Earth's temperature and environment have changed constantly over the years; in fact we are still cooler than the Earths average temperature. The thing is these temperature changes have always been gradual, allowing all the various environmental mechanisms and eco-systems to adapt. The current change is happening much faster.

Whether or not the warming trend is caused by Human activity is irrelevant. The fact is this is the fastest it has ever happened according to all available data. So what’s the variable added to the mix that wasn't there before? Human activity...




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Monday, October 17, 2005 3:24 AM

ECLIPTIC


On the note of the hurricane caused by global warming. That is outright wrong.

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/09/13/Worldandnation/Storm_frenzy_is_not_a
.shtml


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Now climatologists say frenzied hurricane seasons will be a fact of life for the next 10 to 20 years, part of a lengthy cycle of stormy eras followed by calmer ones.


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At a time when some are theorizing that global warming may be the reason for more intense hurricane seasons, climatologists say the AMO is the real culprit.

"The consensus among hurricane researchers and forecasters is that the hurricane landfalls of 2004 resulted from the AMO, a natural cycle of hurricane activity, combined with a lapse in the incredibly good fortune of the previous 35 years," Hugh Willoughby, a hurricane researcher at Miami's Florida International University, wrote in an essay last fall.

"The effect of global warming was at most second order," he wrote, "and probably not present at all."



Also to those that think natural global climate changes happen slowly, have you never heard of the Little Ice Age of Europe?

http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/lia/little_ice_age.html

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1595: Gietroz (Switzerland) glacier advances, dammed Dranse River, and caused flooding of Bagne with 70 deaths.
1600-10: Advances by Chamonix (France) glaciers cause massive floods which destroyed three villages and severely damaged a fourth. One village had stood since the 1200's.
1670-80's: Maximum historical advances by glaciers in eastern Alps. Noticeable decline of human population by this time in areas close to glaciers, whereas population elsewhere in Europe had risen.
1695-1709: Iceland glaciers advance dramatically, destroying farms.
1710-1735: A glacier in Norway was advancing at a rate of 100 m per year for 25 years.
1748-50: Norwegian glaciers achieved their historical maximum LIA positions.


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Monday, October 17, 2005 6:44 AM

CITIZEN


So a global temperature change is explained away by short term local fluctuations?



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Sunday, August 31, 2008 9:16 AM

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Arctic sea ice drops to 2nd lowest level on record

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5io8-mhR216BbP-65r8IrK1C6y8ZQD92QRQD
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