Be worried..

[GhostBoi]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/26/coverstory/

Global Warming may be sooner than you think.

 

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I can't say that article tells me anything new.

But yeah, it's funny if you have noticed governments have recently (in the past couple of months) really started to worry about this now, they know how much of a shit pit we are all in.

 

[dream431ca]

It's gonna happen, and it's too late to do anything...even if we did anything 30 years ago, it still would happen. This don't worry me at all...The people who don't understand are the ones who are worried. It's a cycle. It's happened before, it's gonna happen again.

 

[GhostBoi]

But if we had done something 30 years ago, it would happen much later, as much as a few thousand years later, with enough time to prepare, rather than the few short decades we may have now.

 

[dream431ca]

But if we had done something 30 years ago, it would happen much later, as much as a few thousand years later, with enough time to prepare, rather than the few short decades we may have now.

Nope. It still would happen. Scientists have done studies about it and if you wanted it to happen a few thousand years later, we should have never discovered oil or natural gas. You've heard of the bermuda triangle I assume. Underneath the ocean in that triangle area, there are pockets of solid methane, as the water heats up, those pockets turn into methane gas and rise into the atmosphere. Methane is 300 times better as a greenhouse gas than carbiondioxide. Carbiondioxide is the least of the global warming problem, it's the methane. It's happened before, that so much methane came up out of the ocean that when a huge quantity comes into contact with the air, the methane explodes into a raging fireball shooting out of the sea. It's too late to argue now, it's already happening and instead of thinking what to do, people start to panic.

 

[Nat Turner]

I want it to happen really suddenly about 4 years from now. By then I'll have stocked up fully on survivalist gear. If global warming doesn't work on exactly my timeframe I'm gonna be pissed...

 

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I want it to happen really suddenly about 4 years from now. By then I'll have stocked up fully on survivalist gear. If global warming doesn't work on exactly my timeframe I'm gonna be pissed...

You better be prepared for me when i raid america in a volvo, after the precious guzzoline.

Fresh water might be more precious than gas though, have to make one of those awesome suits from DUNE.

Actually, how the **** would and why would i bother taking a volvo to america?

 

[clarky003]

Despite the warming it will ultimately lead to two harsh environment's, hott as shit around the equator, and cold as jack frosts ass in the large part of the northern and southern hemisphere. The atlantic conveyor will be on a knife edge.

Ice age pour favour, everyone will want to compact as they try to migrate between the two extremes.

 

[GhostBoi]

Nope. It still would happen. Scientists have done studies about it and if you wanted it to happen a few thousand years later, we should have never discovered oil or natural gas. You've heard of the bermuda triangle I assume. Underneath the ocean in that triangle area, there are pockets of solid methane, as the water heats up, those pockets turn into methane gas and rise into the atmosphere. Methane is 300 times better as a greenhouse gas than carbiondioxide. Carbiondioxide is the least of the global warming problem, it's the methane. It's happened before, that so much methane came up out of the ocean that when a huge quantity comes into contact with the air, the methane explodes into a raging fireball shooting out of the sea. It's too late to argue now, it's already happening and instead of thinking what to do, people start to panic.

I'm not debating that it wouldn't still happen. It would just happen much later. If we hadn't used such ammounts of CO2 than that pocket wouldn't open up aka used less. Its not like any ammount of heat instantly opens up those pockets. There has to be a tipping point and obviously hasn't happened yet, so if we reduce our emmissions we can slow down the ammount of time it will take before this pocket opens up. That is assuming this whole "Pocket" theory is even legit.

 

[skarrob]

Ghost you really think anything that we mere little people on this planet could some how prolong a cycle of climate change damn dude if we start now we could terraform mars in about 50 yrs

 

[GhostBoi]

NO! I am saying we are on a course of speeding up the cycle right now. If we bring(brought) our emissions down we could bring it to normal levels which would be relatively slowing it down. God, why do I have to explain these things. :dozey:

 

[Naudian]

Okay I understand (i think) what you just said, skarrob, but it would have wasted much less of my life if you had just read over what you typed and fixed it to make sense! thx...

And yea we're a wee bit screwed, but I think it will work out well when the climate goes back to normal (whenever that will be, anyone care to go over it a little more?)
cuz...we'll all be a little wiser...maybe...and there will hopefully be a few hundred million less humans on this planet...

 

[Nat Turner]

NO! I am saying we are on a course of speeding up the cycle right now. If we bring(brought) our emissions down we could bring it to normal levels which would be relatively slowing it down. God, why do I have to explain these things. :dozey:

Why do you want to stop it? The world needs some severe turmoil once in a while.

 

[Raeven0]

Not sure what the problem is. Hasn't the earth seen alternating periods of hot and cold for all of its several billion years of life? And given that both Earth and its inhabitants are still alive...

Granted, your puny human society may suffer some damage, but you guys **** yourselves over even without Nature's help.

 

[Adabiviak]

The bummer may not necessarily be for us, but for countries on the 'brink' of civilization/starvation. The first effects of this will be food production relocation, and as much as the first bits of this may not be major, the transitions won't be smooth, and the poor will be the first to suffer. We'll see what happens, but the idea that the weather patterns that we're so entrenched in will change, and that'll be where the turmoil comes from.

 

[>>FrEnZy<<]

Not sure what the problem is. Hasn't the earth seen alternating periods of hot and cold for all of its several billion years of life? And given that both Earth and its inhabitants are still alive...

Granted, your puny human society may suffer some damage, but you guys **** yourselves over even without Nature's help.

Yes it has but not throught out human history. Compared to the planets history, climatical changes in human history are negligable. If you don't think this has serious implications for humanity, you are gravely mistaken. As ghost boy said, reducing CO2 emissions will slow down this process, allow us more time to adapt to the looming threat.

 

[K e r b e r o s]

Ever work as a roadside mascot? No, its much more different and rewarding then working as a roadside bomb. Anyway, instead of just exploding out of nowhere, you explode out of nowhere dressed in costume.

Standing by the road at Rush Hour makes an Iceberg cry.