Is global warming bunk?

Paladin

Thats the topic of a subject in one of the news groups.
Is it BUNK???
What kind of tit asks this kind of thing these days.
It exists. There is far too much evidence to realistically say it doesnt exist.
What might be questioned are its effects, but is it BUNK??
Sheesh.
Britain looks a tad wet eh?
Poor aussies are swimming. Yer man Thorpe is gonna be an even bigger celeb eh?

Shiminay

But OUR weather still sux

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All the best,

C B

I presume the question which you are trying to ask is "Is the greenhouse effect bunk?"

The gradual increase in the average temp. of the earth over the past 200 is a scientific fact (and the earth has gone through many such temperature changes in the past).

What is not a scientific fact is whether human caused emissions of carbon are responsible for this climate change.

I would contend that they are but I still have yet to see this belief proved to the point where I could hold it with conviction.


On a related note, if anybody comes across good websites on global warming/climate change/ the greenhouse effect I'd really appreciate it if you'd post the links here 'cause I'm just starting a some research which is related to this issue.

Cheers,
Conor

[This message has been edited by C B (edited 24-11-2000).]

ButcherOfNog

well it was damn cold today ...

Jak

Call yourself a researcher ...

C B

well now I don't feel guilty about not doing any real work

[SN]JAG

what most people neglect is the fact that on a planetary scale we just left an ice age, so the gradual increase of temperature is quite nortmal.

Paladin

On a planetary scale an annual rise of 0.5 degrees is extremely high.

Fidelis

I heard there today that sea levels could rise 40ft in the next few decades. Unsettling to say the least.

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It's about a society in freefall....

Paladin

I would imagine that forty feet in just a few decades is a little much. In our lifetime I dont think the sea rises will be too disasterous, but they will be noticable.
An interesting thing I heard -

In something like 20\30 years from now, several planets in our solar system will coincide in one relatively straight line all on one side of the sun. On the other side of the sun will be the earth. The moon will also align on the planet side of the earth. The combined gravitational pull of all these bodies will cause massive tides flooding huge areas.
Scary.

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Just a harmless little platypus eh? Nobody expects the poison spur!