Hasn't the Earth been going through cooling and warming periods since.......UMMMMM.........FOREVER!
Disprove Global Warming!!!
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OgreMkV
Father of Earth's Next Emperor
I am very scared by some of the opinions and comments in this thread.
I think the whole question isn't about global warming, it's more a question of how can we keep it from getting too hot... for us. Oh, and our crops, we need to eat.
At this point, I fairly sure that, as a species, humans have pretty much doomed themselves. I just hope the crash doesn't come while my child and any grandchildren are alive.
Now, we can ***** about this all we want... however, it isn't going to change the minds of anyone that is in power. This is an example of reality being ignored in favor of popular opinion (much like what happens when people don't understand science).
This argument reminds way too much of the evolution 'controversy'. It's a contrived problem by people who don't like evolution, who don't understand evolution, and who don't understand science. Feel free to argue all you want. Just remember that unless you decide to become a very well respected climatologist or a major political figure, there's not a blessed thing you can do about any of it. Just try, like some other people to reduce your carbon footprint and your non-renewable energy use mainly because it's practical. Then hope for the best.
BTW: Even a hypothesis is not an opinion. If you think that it is, you must not have listened in science... or your teacher was rubbish.
The difference between a hypothesis and an opinion is testability. If you can't test it, then it's opinion. If you can test it, then it's a hypothesis. If you can test it and don't, then don't bug us about it.
I think the whole question isn't about global warming, it's more a question of how can we keep it from getting too hot... for us. Oh, and our crops, we need to eat.
At this point, I fairly sure that, as a species, humans have pretty much doomed themselves. I just hope the crash doesn't come while my child and any grandchildren are alive.
Now, we can ***** about this all we want... however, it isn't going to change the minds of anyone that is in power. This is an example of reality being ignored in favor of popular opinion (much like what happens when people don't understand science).
This argument reminds way too much of the evolution 'controversy'. It's a contrived problem by people who don't like evolution, who don't understand evolution, and who don't understand science. Feel free to argue all you want. Just remember that unless you decide to become a very well respected climatologist or a major political figure, there's not a blessed thing you can do about any of it. Just try, like some other people to reduce your carbon footprint and your non-renewable energy use mainly because it's practical. Then hope for the best.
BTW: Even a hypothesis is not an opinion. If you think that it is, you must not have listened in science... or your teacher was rubbish.
The difference between a hypothesis and an opinion is testability. If you can't test it, then it's opinion. If you can test it, then it's a hypothesis. If you can test it and don't, then don't bug us about it.
A bit offtopic but I thought this was something interesting...
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090827_ozone.html
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090827_ozone.html
OgreMkV
Father of Earth's Next Emperor
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/325/5945/1236
"four of the five warmest decades of our 2000-year-long reconstruction occurring between 1950 and 2000"
"four of the five warmest decades of our 2000-year-long reconstruction occurring between 1950 and 2000"
Ogre I think its pretty well established that overall the Earths climate is changing...the real question is how much affect are humans really having? I dont think we've gotten a great answer but I still think that is no excuse to just shrug off any attempt made to slow that down.
whether you believe in it or you dont is whether or not you believe humans can influence the earths climate, IMO, thats the base of the question. now all we have to do is figure out the answer...
OgreMkV
Father of Earth's Next Emperor
Isn't that what I said?
OK, here's a start
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/01apr_deepsolarminimum.htm
We are experiencing one of the lowest levels of solar activity and irradiance ever recorded. Based on the amount of energy the Earth is receiving, things should be a little cooler than they are at present... they are not. Therefore something other than the sun is having an effect on our temperature.
johnlarson66
These Pandas Rock
I would rather have global warming than global cooling.
I blame this all on the dolphins. I think if we could return to netting them with tuna the balance would return to the planet.
That and the killing of the buffalo.
I blame this all on the dolphins. I think if we could return to netting them with tuna the balance would return to the planet.
That and the killing of the buffalo.
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Thanks for your amazing opinion...any scientific data to back that up or are you just going to leave it at that?
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