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- Nougat, on 10/11/2007, -9/+71Hey, look! Random dots with cliched warnings superimposed on a map of the Earth!
I'm not saying any of it is wrong. It just seems very very random, and designed to elicit an emotional response. I find that arguments designed to elicit emotional responses are usually based on flawed reasoning, and so this kind of presentation has a negative effect on me.
Even if it's right. - FeartheKnighted, on 10/11/2007, -27/+61Yeah, this is retarded. Did you people even read some of the "effects", or just digg it because it said Global Warming? How the hell is unsustainable development related to global warming?
- chris9902, on 10/11/2007, -10/+38I think that something will happen somewhere if we don't stop doing that thing.
- fpcyber, on 10/11/2007, -12/+33Interesting. Now can someone go to the future and give us a before and after picture comparison.
- KidVicious, on 10/11/2007, -1/+21Increasing yields in Northern America?! OH NOES!!!
- norman619, on 10/11/2007, -22/+41This is funny. The rise of global tems actually feeds glaciers. These global warmning fanatics are ignoring the well known and understood water cycle. If more water is introduced into the atmosphere the excess is deposited on the glaciers as snow. This makes them gorw and this is how we get the many ice ages we have had on the planet. There is little doubt that global warming is under way but we fail to see how this leads to a new iceage. So the folks in the 70's may have the last laugh after all.
Let's cut the *****. These predictions and simulations are based on models which try to immitate the incredibly complex climate system. We can't predict the weather a week out with any real reliability yet they want us to believe they can predect conditions years, decades, even cneturies out? Sure anyone with half a brain can see this is complete BS. - thcobbs, on 10/11/2007, -10/+28Ohh, wow! Severe storms in my area.
Oh, wait.... I live in "tornado alley". So, there's going to be no effect on me?
Sweeet.........
Time to crank up the 10 year old truck, drop in the cheapest gas available and make some more global impact. - lipinski, on 10/11/2007, -29/+46All theory. No Science. Dugg down as inaccurate.
- Terr01, on 10/11/2007, -8/+22" We can't predict the weather a week out..."
Yet, incredibly, we have the advanced scientific principles necessary to conclude that winter is generally colder than summer! (Offer may not be valid in some hemispheres.) Amazing, is it not? We can't predict what the weather will be like in a week, but we know what the running average temperature will change to in three months. Bow before my superhuman science! :P - aliengoods, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15Tornadoes are Gods way of saying he doesn't like trees.
- septicmadman, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15life is good
- desigu, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13reduced tourism... :) Yeah, probably doesn't have anything to do with the fact that plane tickets are expensive and maybe there are more things to do wherever those people were coming from before, or that people work more nowadays than they relax... yeah, it's probably the changing environment that's doing it.
- Coven, on 10/11/2007, -8/+20Before some asshat says something about their local weather either confirming or debunking climate change....local weather =/= global climate
- jhnewt, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14Increased Yields!
- splammo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Spammer
- zachblume, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13Theory is science.
- f4nt0m4s, on 10/11/2007, -7/+18the flashy dot things are a nice distraction from the lack of hard sources to back said "article" up
- Hetman, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13Damn if this is true I do not think that america really cares about global warming. Seriously more food, less snow. That seems like a win win for the U.S. Maybe the republicans are smarter than I give them credit for.
- dragonexe, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11I think what Terr was trying to say (if you peel away the harsh tone) was that local weather =/= global climate.
- vastrightwing, on 10/11/2007, -8/+17If you yell something loud enough and long enough, eventually people will believe it.
- crimoid, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11≠
- naio, on 10/11/2007, -7/+16*****. Glaciers will subside due to temperature raise and therefore global warming will feed... the sea level! Kiss Venice bye-bye for example.
- swrostmore, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11Web definitions for "theory"
a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena; "theories can incorporate facts and laws and tested hypotheses"; - timbo83251, on 10/11/2007, -8/+17Al Gore uses more resources to microwave his hot pockets than I use in a year... End result: I don't try until Al slims...
- neoform, on 10/11/2007, -6/+14everyone's getting ***** except for norther US and Canada...
- Askee, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11I'm no where near any of the dots so I'm safe, right?
- SmokedL, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Far far harder.
Local weather is a largely chaotic system. Global climate is far less so.
No matter how unintuitive it may seem to some, it is often far easier to predict large trends than small details in chaotic systems.
Imagine dumping the contents of a sack of sand on a scale. You will be utterly unable to predict where individual grains of sand land, but you are perfectly able to predict the weight that the scale will display. - StrangeFamous, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9In this case, "Junk Science" is another way of saying "I don't understand it, so I won't bother trying. Bandwagon, here I come!"
- Angostura, on 10/11/2007, -9/+17Buried as junk comment.
- hfactor, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11Err... norman... Ever took a LOOK at those glaciers you´re talking about?
- Veeoh, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11No, it's gods way of saying stop living in trailers and build proper houses.
- StrangeFamous, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8For example?
- jmkiii, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10How do you do that thing you do so well?
- ShangoKai, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10Severe storms in the gulf coastal region? Not in Baton Rouge LA near that dot labeled "Severe storms". We haven't had anything since Katrina.
- Angostura, on 10/11/2007, -12/+19If you actually click on the label you will find out. To summarise: Climate change will make the current level of development unsustainable.
- hfactor, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9The glaciers are shrinking at an alarming rate. Go visit one and watch the water flow. In the alps, many are already gone, Kilimandjaro will be snowless in a few year´s time. More questions?
- noahhoward, on 10/11/2007, -13/+19Severe storms for the gulf, such *****... /sarc/ such a horrible hurricane season we had last year, this year has been absolutely devastating too //sarc/.
Why don't they just admit they don't know what is happening? Oh, wait, that isn't how you earn 'save the world' grants.
Wise up people, our 'top scientists' are playing politics, celebrities are not climatologists, Live Earth was a farce, corn ethanol will be a disaster ($7.00 for a gallon of milk by December). They're spending millions to tamper with a system they don't understand and inventing extreme outcomes to scare up more funding. - paulmdx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6The UK too..
- noahhoward, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Decreasing yields in the western Sahara... wait.
- Stevethegreat, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7While I'm so against alarmists, I'm also against reassurers. Nothing's going to hell but -at the same time- something is not quite right. Instead of knee-jerk reactions from both the two fronts we would be better of being pragmatists, NOT sterile skeptics. Human made Global Warming (along with its effects), is real and happening right now, I ought to believe the scientific consensus, taking the risk of being wrong, I HAVE to believe the more likely reality. Sterile skepticism is a step backwards on such a matter, it's not a philosophical idea, it's our -direct- well being what we're debating for.
I know that the US dollar will take another hit by admitting that Human made Global Warming is real, but -really- it's not something USA can avoid, sooner or later. I also know that Europe promotes measures against Global Warming cause it will boost its economy in relevance with USA's, but the truth is that Europe -this time- also happens to be right and USA's further deterioration of its economy is a coincidental effect. Whatever the route USA would take, it would be harmful, it seems like it -presently- chose the twice harmful way. Making it bad -once again- to the rest of the world, while taking just a little extension for the inevitable. Dems tells you that since you will admit the inevitable, one way or another, you just don't have to look like ass along the way 'till then. - hmmmok, on 10/11/2007, -6/+12So many projections, so little facts.
- heythisismyname, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9they forgot to include a dot for me sweating my ass off everytime i walk to the car
- fant0m, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6This is wrong! It depicts the earth as flat... stupid n00bs!
- ArcOrion, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9Decreasing tourism in Europe? But I thought people liked warm weather on vacations.
- Chester12, on 10/11/2007, -5/+11And you hold a degree in climatology from what university?
- hmmmok, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8Somewhere Jim Gaffigan says: Al Pockets.
- dragonexe, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9Bravo sir, your mastery of armchair climatology has left even the most seasoned academic stunned and awed with your new approach of intuitive science.
- StrangeFamous, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6You're selfish. hahaha indeed.
- dragonexe, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8Well... policians are debating it.. the climatologists are pretty much in agreement and waiting for everyone else to catch up.
- Angostura, on 10/11/2007, -5/+10"Sure anyone with half a brain can see this is complete BS."
That wraps it up for the world's climate scientists. Thank God we have you here to show the way.
I note you fail to actually account for the fact that the vast majority of the world's glaciers are actually in serious retreat. -
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