@murc While I don't believe in global warming (or what they are now calling climate change, which is known by it's other name, weather), I do agree with the outcome it has created which is a push for energy efficient and self sustaining alternate forms of energy and technology. I just despise the carbon credit scam of the century.
take a look at glaciers around the world. normal weather doesn't suddenly begin to melt giant mountains of ice that have been around for tens of millions of years, especially not over a span of several decades. pull your head out of the sand buddy, the sh*t got real a while ago.
@snugs Yeah never mind the mountains of evidence showing rapid cooling and warming periods hundreds of years prior to the industrial revolution. There's no way that could happen again [sarcasm].
Besides, the old 'Global Warming' party bus broke down a while ago. The new hotness is now 'Climate Change'. Jump on the new bus man, all the cool kids are doing it.
@shellscape "Besides, the old 'Global Warming' party bus broke down a while ago. The new hotness is now 'Climate Change'." sounds like you're more plugged into the trends than i am.
on a more serious note, let's employ some logic here. if multi-million year old glaciers survived centuries of pre-industrial climate, what does it say about their inability to survive decades of post-industrial climate?
Um…WTF are you talking about? The temperature of the last two thousand years has remained within a temperature anomaly of about a degree (Celcius). That's from the absolute peak in the medieval warm period (1000 AD) to the trough in the little ice age (1600 AD). In the past 200 years (since the beginning of the industrial revolution, which ended the little ice age), the temperature anomaly has the same variation - from -.6 to .4 (which is double the highest variation during the medieval warm period, by the way.
And as for your little "global warming" quip, global warming has always been the publicly accepted term for global climate change, but the researchers who have been studying it have ALWAYS called it global climate change. The public still calls it global warming, because the general populace is ignorant. Just like you…
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@murc
Congrats on opening Pandoras box
@Ross McLean
It's so much better in the year 3000; pah - ozone layer, schmozone layer.
@murc While I don't believe in global warming (or what they are now calling climate change, which is known by it's other name, weather), I do agree with the outcome it has created which is a push for energy efficient and self sustaining alternate forms of energy and technology. I just despise the carbon credit scam of the century.
@Professor Hubert J Farnsworth
LMAO Professor
@Ruben
yeah cap and trade will destroy our energy prices.
@Carimerr and I'm the queen of France.
@Ruben
take a look at glaciers around the world. normal weather doesn't suddenly begin to melt giant mountains of ice that have been around for tens of millions of years, especially not over a span of several decades. pull your head out of the sand buddy, the sh*t got real a while ago.
@snugs Yeah never mind the mountains of evidence showing rapid cooling and warming periods hundreds of years prior to the industrial revolution. There's no way that could happen again [sarcasm].
Besides, the old 'Global Warming' party bus broke down a while ago. The new hotness is now 'Climate Change'. Jump on the new bus man, all the cool kids are doing it.
@shellscape
"Besides, the old 'Global Warming' party bus broke down a while ago. The new hotness is now 'Climate Change'."
sounds like you're more plugged into the trends than i am.
on a more serious note, let's employ some logic here. if multi-million year old glaciers survived centuries of pre-industrial climate, what does it say about their inability to survive decades of post-industrial climate?
@shellscape
Um…WTF are you talking about? The temperature of the last two thousand years has remained within a temperature anomaly of about a degree (Celcius). That's from the absolute peak in the medieval warm period (1000 AD) to the trough in the little ice age (1600 AD). In the past 200 years (since the beginning of the industrial revolution, which ended the little ice age), the temperature anomaly has the same variation - from -.6 to .4 (which is double the highest variation during the medieval warm period, by the way.
And as for your little "global warming" quip, global warming has always been the publicly accepted term for global climate change, but the researchers who have been studying it have ALWAYS called it global climate change. The public still calls it global warming, because the general populace is ignorant. Just like you…
@Crabs An edit - in the last sentence of the first paragraph, it should say double the highest anomaly, not variation.