This article caught my eye:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...e_warming_dc_2
Can anyone verify this, or speculate?
Take care all.
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This article caught my eye:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...e_warming_dc_2
Can anyone verify this, or speculate?
Take care all.
thats wierd since we've had one cold summer here in england.
That's just scary. And whats worse is that nobody gives a damn. Just so long as they can have their plasma TV's.
WOO-HOO! DEATH TO EUROPE! No wait, I live in Europe...
But seriously though, I have noticed the temperatures being a lot higher, and there have been really bad floods here in England as of late. I suppose this is because Europe was the first really industrialised area of the world, and is now paying the price.
Still, there's all too many global warming scare-stories around, so now I tend not to take notice of them.
I don't care, I will be dead. Too bad for my children.
:rolleyes2
NOTETHESARCASMSARCASMSARCAAAAASM
In Paris last year, from the 1st to the 10th of August, we averaged about 35-40°C (and it stayed that warm at night). Same period this year, 20-28°C (and it's cooler at night). This summer is actually cool. Even the summers before seemed way warmer.
i should point out that this is probably based on a computer model of the weather system and those things are notoriously faliable. besides i don't really care since by 2080 we will have invented warp drive and can leave this dust ball.
2080 is 76 years from now, 96% of these posters will be dead, but I'll still be alive....
It's been turning very tropical here in Holland over the last two years. We normally didn't get such humid heat for such a long time. Scratches are turning into nasty infections that last for weeks (I had one of those recently, and a few friends said it happened to them, too.)
Yesterday, an angler pulled a piranha out of the Groningen city canal. He took a picture of it and put it back.
Yay for Dubya and his refusal to sign the Kyoto treaty!
Yep, it's getting very tropical over here in England. It's oppressive during the day, and then thunder storms often follow at night. The weather is just wholly unpredictable.
I wouldn't be too surprised if there are no more cold winters. These aren't just scare stories - models are based on real data, which is then extrapolated. This is probably a worse-case scenario, but I think it's a matter of 'when', not 'if'.
It worries me.
The midwest is already prone to global warming? We have an average of 19 days over 90 degrees here in chicago during the summer. This year we have had only 2. Just 2! The global warming sure is affecting us! How will we ever survive this insane amount of heat?
And people are like! Global warming because of the farting cows in india. When its the cars we drive that help it. Say, over billions of billions of cars on the street, contribute to it big time. Maybe once we get the Hydrogene car running that will slow it down a bit.... Here in Washington we havnt been getting much rain then we used to. Maybe because of, no more El Nino? Or must be Global Warming. We sure have been getting hot weather like usual, during the summer.
Up here in Wisconsin we only had one day over 90 :)
Lest you forget, this cool summer was not because of an ice age or global warming or anything. It's....
El Niño!
EDIT: To clarify, we're at the beginning of an El Niño, according to the NOAA.
They'll be far too mutated to care, either.Quote:
I don't care, I will be dead. Too bad for my children.
For those of you who don't hablo espanol, El Niño is spanish for...
..The Niño.
Niño Brown?
I think the real concern is that rising global temperatures will cause the ocean currents to fluctuate too wildly which could cause drastic climate changes in both directions.
I don't know if this is good or bad for me.
On the one hand, less winter.
On the two hand, I'm vulnerable to heat and get 20% more damage from attacks based on it.
On the third hand, has anyone noticed how bipolar the weather has been this summer? Sun and storm, bake and pour. And a bloody lot lightning.
Still, as they say, global warming could contribute to the next ice-age, cause of the extra humidity in the air that is then trapped in the polar caps. :|
So we have either a) natural fluctuations b) unnatural fluctuations, and both can be (1 a Waterworld 2) an Ice Age world.
Ed forgot to mention that here in Chicago we actually hit a record low this summer where it was in the 30's or something like that. I was in Cancun at the time, though.
WHOA! I knew we hit some new lows but 30? Damn thats cold. Glad it was at night and not during the day.
Are we sure it is El nino and not La Nina?
I believe so, yes.
On the other hand, we might see something like...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ertomorrow.jpg
Granted that's New York, but you get the point. All the damage we do will be irrepairable.
Man that movie sucked...
*Ahem* Yeah the enviroment is getting distroyed more day by day, yet no one(important) seems to care, especially not that president of ours who wants to tear the crap out of every wildlife reserve left in America.
But to tell you the truth, I don't think any big things like this will happen. I think global warming theorys are bulltrout personally.
What do you think happens when you drive your car? It burns the fuel, combine that with millions of cars, and it is going to heat up the asphalt, which retains heat very well. That alone is reason enough to believe the global warming theories, at least for me anyway. Combine that with all of the other things industrialization does, and to me, it looks like we are heading straight for disaster.Quote:
Originally Posted by devilmaykickass
Yay I hate winter :D :p
lol I hope you hate water as well because europe won't have any of that either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Escobar
Good thing I live in the states :)
Me 2.Quote:
Originally Posted by Escobar
I've just realised i don't care
don't ask my why i had to write that down.
True, and I'm not saying global warming is an impossibility, but I find it easier to believe the temperature trend theorys than the global warming ones.Quote:
Originally Posted by nik0tine
Don't get me wrong though, I too think mother nature's been wronged and she'll obtain her vengance on us in mere time.
Could you be so kind as to explain the difference? I don't see one. Global warming is a trend.Quote:
Originally Posted by devilmaykickass
Quote:
Originally Posted by Strider
I think the difference is the "non-human, non-anomaly" part of the temperature trend thingie. Though brings into question whether ice-ages or the opposite triggered by outside-forces, like meteors or seismic activity, is part of the nat'ral trend.
I take this view. Physics -> Chemistry -> Life -> Abstract constucts, where humanity is touching the last part, and standing upon the others. Though it doesn't tell me whether meteors are "natural" in this case or not. :choc:
I mean the theory that the planet naturally goes through heating and cooling trends (ie, the planet was going through a cooling trend during the ice age, now its moving into a heating trend)...I find this easier to believe than "omg all the cars and burning coal and farting bulldogs are making too much gas in the atmosphere causing a greenhouse effect and now were gonna be the next Venus even though theres supposedly a big hole in the ozone caused by the same stuff NOOOO I NEED MORE RENOLDS WRAP!".Quote:
Originally Posted by Strider
However, I don't actually believe or disbelieve either theory, just like I don't believe or disbelieve in evolution or creationism.
