Hailstones lying(not melting) - Definitely proof of global warming!

syklops · 06-04-2008 2:18pm #1

Yeah, so the hailstones started about five minutes ago, and they are lying on the ground and not melting. On the 6th of April, this is definitely proof of Global Warming. I am being sarcastic of course.

Any one else have any (dis)proof of global warming? The snow fall in Iraq earlier this year for example.....

Sherifu · 06-04-2008 2:23pm

I saw a pigeon once.

Dudess · 06-04-2008 2:23pm

Are you a global warming skeptic?

Oh the sun is shining following a hail shower. Now I can say "Guys, the sun is splitting the stones out there". Technically, "splitting" doesn't mean the same as melting, but you can't have everything...

holly1 · 06-04-2008 2:24pm

My son is in Iraq,he says they often get snow in Iraq in the winter.

Adam · 06-04-2008 2:24pm

Controversial.

Voodu Child · 06-04-2008 2:34pm

In my day we had hailstones as big as your head, and you knew not to complain or you'd get a thick ear from one of the Brothers, and if you told your parents they'd tell you you probably deserved it and give you another one themselves. If that's not proof of global warming I don't know what is.

Overheal · 06-04-2008 2:34pm

I voted for Nader.

Irish Halo · 06-04-2008 2:39pm

Global warming is lazy shorthand for climate change and is used hoping that people understand that it doesn't just mean "OMIGOD the earth is getting warmer". Humans are affecting the climate of Earth, whether that means ice caps melting or severe weather storms during the summer. Some people call that global warming as it was the first term the media latched onto.

The fact that I am sitting in Central London and there was snow on the ground this morning (or hailstone not melting in Ireland) especially after the glourious weather I had last week in Lancaster says to me that climate change is a reality.

Snow in Iraq in the winter is normal for their climate, hot dry summers cold winters (down as far as minus 30 in the mountain). Or were you being sarcastic.

Einstein · 06-04-2008 2:41pm

Sherifu wrote: »

I saw a pigeon once.

no you didn't

syklops · 06-04-2008 2:45pm

yes I am a global warming skeptic.

I am not convinced the world is warming up. If it is getting warmer, I am not convinced man has anything to do with it. If the world is warming up, and if man is to blame, I do not think we can do anything to reverse it.

Dont get me wrong, I am not pro-wanton pollution. I am all for being energy efficient, and I am all for recycling. I am not for the daft notions people have gotten about carbon foot prints etc. If man stopped burning all fossil fuels right now, would it do any good? Doubtful.

Media hype regarding something we cant do anything to stop, caused us to vote the bleeding-useless party into the dail, and all they have done in return is put prices of various things they dont like up.

longshanks · 06-04-2008 2:54pm

my cats breath smells like cat food

snubbleste · 06-04-2008 3:01pm

Climate Change tbh

Jesus Wept · 06-04-2008 3:01pm

I'm far from an expert on the subject but isn't it natural order of things anyhow?

Ice age ->>>> insane firey depths of hell type age ->>>> Ice age ->>>> Rince ->>>> Repeat ->>>> etc

cornbb · 06-04-2008 3:06pm

The earth is actually due to get a wee bit cooler in the coming year or so, this is due to the effect of La Nina, a massive current of cold water in the Pacific that occurs every few decades and has an effect across the world. As other posters have pointed out however climate change is the real problem and global warming is only a part of it. You can't just see a bit of ice on the ground and say "OMG I have proof that the earth isn't getting warmer!!!" cause, well, thats a bit stupid.

Sherifu · 06-04-2008 3:07pm

syklops wrote: »

The snow fall in Iraq earlier this year for example.....

That's an inconvenient truth.

internelligent · 06-04-2008 3:37pm

I miss snow! It's been ages since I've woken up to find 4 inches of snow everywhere. Next time it happens I'll be 60 and probably break my hip!

Seth Brundle · 06-04-2008 3:40pm

Sherifu wrote: »

I saw a pigeon once.

I ate pigeon once (not one from the street AFAIK)!
Not bad!

internelligent wrote: »

I miss snow! It's been ages since I've woken up to find 4 inches of snow everywhere.

I woke up this morning to find 9 inches!

jesus_thats_gre · 06-04-2008 3:42pm

syklops wrote: »

Yeah, so the hailstones started about five minutes ago, and they are lying on the ground and not melting. On the 6th of April, this is definitely proof of Global Warming. I am being sarcastic of course.

Any one else have any (dis)proof of global warming? The snow fall in Iraq earlier this year for example.....

When I was in Finland last August visiting family, there was a report on TV that snow had fallen in Lapland.

It was the first time in recorded history.

Collie D · 06-04-2008 3:44pm

kbannon wrote: »

I woke up this morning to find 9 inches!

Sure you did

Dizzyblabla · 06-04-2008 3:44pm

The-Rigger wrote: »

I'm far from an expert on the subject but isn't it natural order of things anyhow?

Ice age ->>>> insane firey depths of hell type age ->>>> Ice age ->>>> Rince ->>>> Repeat ->>>> etc

See, I was thinking the same thing! how did the last ice age melt? BEFORE people started polluting the place?

by the way, I'm in Norway, it's 5 degrees and raining, seems our cold weather is hitting home instead

Collie D · 06-04-2008 3:47pm

Dizzyblabla wrote: »

See, I was thinking the same thing! how did the last ice age melt? BEFORE people started polluting the place?

Man discovered fire
Man moved from the caves and started to build huts from trees which caused massive deforestation

faceman · 06-04-2008 4:18pm

The hailstones really need more cowbell to be proof of climate change.

Wertz · 06-04-2008 7:32pm

Dizzyblabla wrote: »

See, I was thinking the same thing! how did the last ice age melt? BEFORE people started polluting the place?

Ice ages are more about the rotation and orbital patterns of the planet than they are about any atmospheric pollution.
Over great periods of time, the orbit of the earth varies and more importantly it wobbles on it's axis...at the point of greatest tilt on the axis the poles are in darkness (no light or solar heat) for a lot longer than they are at the present. It's widely believed that these prolonged winter seasons start a global cooling event that eventually turns into an ice age....the melting/warming period is when the processes reverses, and the winter periods shorten back to what we have right now.