#1 2010-04-23 15:01:06
An Inconvienent Truth runs smack into a Global Reality
“The cooler temperatures are a result of the ash cloud blocking the sun,” McCasland said. “We can expect to experience cooler temperatures at least through the summer, if not longer.”
Does anything ever work out the way this guy wants it to?
And don't forget: the Year Without a Summer
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#2 2010-04-23 15:21:21
This summer will be cooler than normal due to a volcano? Crap. This is going to make it more difficult for me to evaluate the evidence and decide for myself whether climate change is real. This is something that I, as an American with Internet Access, am qualified to do--at least as qualified as the vast majority of climate scientists, who have spent the entirety of their adult lives studying this phenomenon. This sounds like they know what they're talking about better than me (and you), until one realizes that I have google, wikipedia, a free afternoon and a political agenda.
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#3 2010-04-23 16:25:53
ah297900 wrote:
This summer will be cooler than normal due to a volcano? Crap. This is going to make it more difficult for me to evaluate the evidence and decide for myself whether climate change is real. This is something that I, as an American with Internet Access, am qualified to do--at least as qualified as the vast majority of climate scientists, who have spent the entirety of their adult lives studying this phenomenon. This sounds like they know what they're talking about better than me (and you), until one realizes that I have google, wikipedia, a free afternoon and a political agenda.
Climate change is real, no doubt about it. The global warming hysteria is a good thing also - gives people the push they need to start working on limiting polution, etc, etc. I strongly support the need to clean up our act.
The problem with these scientists and their models is that they still can't tell you how deep the oceans are or what the temperature is down there. However the fact that we can't predict the weather let alone change it should not stand in the way of cleaning up how we do things.
What really super sucks about this is that I just bought the kids a pool, it was 38° here in SoCal this morning - fucking pool is going to be a complete waste of money.
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#4 2010-04-23 19:47:39
Damn it! I hate the winters where I live, as mild as they are by the standards of places like Vermont. I want to be able to grow tropical plants outdoors year round without moving back to California or Florida.
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#6 2010-04-24 17:40:41
What makes me froth at the mouth is the debate over the cause, when the real worry is the inevitable flooding of low-lying coastal areas, and what can be done about that. New Orleans, for example, will be toast. Soggy toast, but toast nevertheless.
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#7 2010-04-25 09:53:13
sigmoid freud wrote:
What makes me froth at the mouth is the debate over the cause, when the real worry is the inevitable flooding of low-lying coastal areas, and what can be done about that. New Orleans, for example, will be toast. Soggy toast, but toast nevertheless.
https://cruelery.com/uploads/34_global_temp1.jpg
What makes you think that will happen? The amount of water on land is but a micro-pittance compared to what is in the oceans, the oceans will not rise from anything other than plate movement. If you took all of the glaciers and threw them into the ocean we still wouldn't notice; as an added bonus we could also see all of the places in Greenland where the Norsemen lived before the glaciers came back.
Florida, however, being merely a sand bar is doomed to be washed away.
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#8 2010-05-04 22:13:35
sigmoid freud wrote:
What makes me froth at the mouth is the debate over the cause, when the real worry is the inevitable flooding of low-lying coastal areas, and what can be done about that. New Orleans, for example, will be toast. Soggy toast, but toast nevertheless.
https://cruelery.com/uploads/34_global_temp1.jpg
You have to take the long view...
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#9 2010-05-04 22:46:20
Emmeran wrote:
What makes you think that will happen? The amount of water on land is but a micro-pittance compared to what is in the oceans, the oceans will not rise from anything other than plate movement. If you took all of the glaciers and threw them into the ocean we still wouldn't notice; as an added bonus we could also see all of the places in Greenland where the Norsemen lived before the glaciers came back.
Florida, however, being merely a sand bar is doomed to be washed away.
Well, London is in peril. The London Flood gates are truly being challenged. If more of the ice goes in the NA, we are going to see havoc.
But, but, but... I am looking forward to growing pineapples and mangoes on the Orkneys.
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