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- inactive, on 08/14/2008, -14/+62Buried for being complete *****. The earth has been here a few billion years longer than us, and we've only been involved in industry for a few hundred.
"The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are *****!"
-George Carlin - chrixxian, on 08/14/2008, -18/+63I'm thinking more and more the opposite actually. I think it's pretty pretentious and egotistical of us to actually believe We, a small surface nuisance like us, can actually be a threat to planet Earth.
I'd agree more with " Earth is 'Mankind's Biggest Threat' "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c
That about sums it up. - SeventhSon, on 08/14/2008, -6/+49Don't sell the ol' girl short. More like "Mankind is the 'Earth's Biggest Threat to How it is Right Now' We may screw things up for a while, but in a few hundred thousand years she'll still be truckin' along. And hopefully with cool dinosaurs or something that looks cooler than humans did.
- kru1e, on 08/14/2008, -6/+34Mankind is the Biggest threat to an Earth that supports Mankind.
- berlancoboy, on 08/14/2008, -3/+23"Earth is Mankind's Biggest Threat"
Earth wins Gold; Mankind drowns in pool. - cnot3, on 08/14/2008, -1/+20That's what everyone says until aliens invade.
- drmangrum, on 08/14/2008, -4/+22Earth is fine. The earth has been here for 4.5 billion years. We're a pimple on it's ass.
Buried for inaccuracy: Mankind is MANKINDS biggest threat. - jellyfishes, on 08/15/2008, -0/+17I saw part of a documentary about the Earth in which the conclusion was that we aren't trying to save the planet itself, we are trying to save our civilization from destruction. If we screw up the planet, we'll destroy our way of life, but the planet can recover (though it may take a million years). We don't need to "save the planet" for Earth's sake, we need to save it for our own sake.
- christopherRB, on 08/14/2008, -1/+18The Earth is fine, Its the idiots who live on it that are screwing themselves and everyone else.
- greenfyre, on 08/14/2008, -3/+19All debunked
Sunspots and solar cycles repeatedly debunked by scientists
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007 ...
http://www.desmogblog.com/global-warming-deniers-f ...
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006 ...
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006 ...
http://www.malaya.com.ph/jul13/envi1.htm
Sun Could Cause 15% To 20% Of Effects Of Climate Change, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/08071 ...
How much of the recent CO2 increase is due to human activities? http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005 ...
The Human Hand in Climate Change http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007 ...
Myth 'Natural emissions dwarf human emissions'http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/12/17/233610 ...
Attribution of 20th Century climate change to CO2 http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006 ...
Humans cause climate change, US body accepts http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg1992 ... - wynja, on 08/14/2008, -4/+17Headline should read "Mankind is mankind's biggest threat." We are doing nothing more to the planet than speeding up evolution. If we have triggered a mass extinction, then life will eventually recover and there will be even more diversity when it does than there is today.
- megaton, on 08/14/2008, -3/+15Solution: replace all men with clones of Phelps.
- Haoie, on 08/14/2008, -1/+12Mankind is just man's greatest threat.
- inactive, on 08/15/2008, -0/+11that about sums it up.
- ptsuk, on 08/14/2008, -2/+13"Mankind is the 'Earth's Biggest Threat?" Sorry to bear the bad new but in no way do we pose a threat to the earth. The earth was here and will be here long after man has come and gone.
The title should be if anything "Mankind is Mankind's Biggest Threat!" (along with "most" other lifeforms)
buried as inaccurate. - greenfyre, on 08/14/2008, -4/+14The fact is that we are going to toast most of the biosphere, then we are screwed, and after we are gone the biosphere will recover.
Some people feel neither of the first two is a particularly good thing. - vikingcoder, on 08/14/2008, -6/+16Do you have anything to support your statements besides a stand-up routine from a master comedian?
Nihilistic beliefs do not refute the accumulated scientific knowledge. - roddack, on 08/14/2008, -1/+11Oh, so Mother Nature needs a favor? Well, maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys. Nature started the fight for survival and now she wants to quit because she's losing? Well, I say "hard cheese!"
-Mr Burns - vikingcoder, on 08/14/2008, -5/+15Do you have any references for your claims? Beliefs and political ideology do not refute the accumulated scientific knowledge.
Mars's orbit is more eccentric than Earth's and its climate is dominated by planet-wide dust storms.
Mars doesn't have oceans, doesn't have rain, has an atmosphere entirely different from Earth's, and has huge dust storms that noticeably impact the climate. Since there is no rain, the dust lingers in the atmosphere. The dust storms produce large year-to-year variability, large regional changes, and can cause albedo changes by exposing or covering up dark underlying rocks.
http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/04/29/is-g ...
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070402/full/070402 ...
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070402/full/070402 ...
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005 ...
Solar activity has been slightly decreasing over the past 30 years. The correlation between sun and climate ended in the 70's when the modern global warming trend began.
http://skepticalscience.com/solar-activity-sunspot ...
http://skepticalscience.com/Determining-the-long-t ...
There are peer-reviewed journal articles, and complete data sets, referenced in those links to validate those claims. - xekko, on 08/14/2008, -5/+14The people are *****... and so are all the other species on the planet.
- getbusyliving, on 08/14/2008, -1/+10Cool dinosaurs in a few hundred thousand years? Try millions.
- greenfyre, on 08/14/2008, -9/+18Debunked :
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=192
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/12/17/222712 ...
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007 ... - wunksta, on 08/14/2008, -2/+10ever take a look at china? the smog, the pollution, the pillaging of the ocean?
how about the red tide thats killing the ocean? how about the toxic rivers? the giant whirlpool of plastic bags in the ocean?
so YES we are causing a significant change in the environment, detrimental to us and a lot of other species.
we wont be the end of the "earth", but we could be the end of ourselves and a lot of other life. - TVarmy, on 08/14/2008, -0/+7Don't screw up the planet. Space travel sucks too much at the moment to jump overboard.
- greenfyre, on 08/14/2008, -4/+11Can you say "Paranoid Conspiracy Theories"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theories http://earthfirst.com/why-youre-a-global-warming-d ...
- xekko, on 08/14/2008, -6/+13If mankind blows itself up and destroys the atmosphere and kills of most species, given a few 100,000 years things will return to normal. But do you want to be responsible for that? Do you want to tell your children your generation ***** up the planet and now they have to deal with it, it's evolution kid, get over it?
We are responsible, we are culpable. Personally, I would like to leave this world a little better than I found it. But we could be the first generation to do the opposite. It's our choice. - azAZ09, on 08/14/2008, -1/+8Earth will do just fine with or without us until a big asteroid hit or the sun explodes into a red giant. Life or no life, this lump of dirt will just keep orbiting, whether it glows radioactive, the atmosphere heats and vital components evaporate, or it goes into an unexpected ice-age.
Now human habitation is a different matter. Mankind threatens future habitability of the planet would be a better title. - Mackofalltrades, on 08/14/2008, -4/+10Really? I thought it was cows farting.
- johnnick, on 08/14/2008, -1/+7Given the number of grammar, spelling and diction atrocities committed on Digg on a minute-by-minute basis, I'm content to have them just get the right word and spell it correctly. Asking them to capitalize it, as well, is just dreaming.
- DNABeast, on 08/15/2008, -0/+6Dinosaurs again? Nah. Giant Land bats and super-intelligent cockroaches.
- inactive, on 08/14/2008, -1/+7Then we must get rid of them!
...oh wait. - wigginz, on 08/14/2008, -0/+5Earth is Mankind's biggest threat.
- absurdist, on 08/15/2008, -0/+5The rapture? Or the raptors?
- MorphicMusic, on 08/14/2008, -4/+9Is this news?
- Willtheway, on 08/15/2008, -1/+6Those websites don't debunk anything. Try reading the whole article instead of the claims at the top.
- nocash23, on 08/15/2008, -0/+4wrong. the military industrial complex and fascist corporatism are the biggest threat.
- pintomp3, on 08/15/2008, -1/+5the earth will be fine. should read "Mankind is Mankind's Biggest Threat". no one is claiming that the earth will end, just the environment as we know it.
- FLarsen, on 08/15/2008, -0/+4Earth is a piece of rock floating in space, it can do without anything on it.
We should find ways to better coexist with the other inhabitants of this planet. The planet itself will be fine anyway. - EmmanuelGoldstn, on 08/15/2008, -0/+4Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word
itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words -
"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's
why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey - krnldmp, on 08/14/2008, -1/+5The biggest problem I see is people are just too ill informed to understand what it all means. They don't know enough to understand that things are not going to be the same as they've been for several generations to come like they were in just the recent past. So not only don't they understand, they truly believe it doesn't matter. In the past a lot of ignorance could be tolerated and even encouraged for the benefit of holders of power in society. Its not like that anymore. Now it has the ability to kill us all very soon. I guess the task will be to engage the segement of the population that is lagging farthest behind so they can get to some subsistence level of intelligence regarding matters of efficiency and ecology. It really doesn't require a highly developed mind to get just that far, but it is still a challenge due to the sheer number of people that truly don't know what to believe and how to make decisions that benefit the species. There are people that still can't get over racism for example. They don't understand that all evidence suggests everyone alive today has evolved from a dozen or so black people, and that in a future very near everything most people attribute to race is going to competely dissolve, becoming a matter of personal choice to some extent, and maybe even something modifyable on the fly, but to get there we have to Survive.
- vikingcoder, on 08/14/2008, -3/+7Can you say "prideful ignorance?"
Political ideology & grand conspiracy theories do not refute the accumulated scientific knowledge. - norman619, on 08/15/2008, -1/+5NASA's own data says many planets in our system are warming up AT THE SAME TIME. The fact that GLOBAL temps dropped drastically in just 12 months while CO2 levels have continued their rise means CO2 is most likely NOT the cause of warming. The researchers who were monitoring the temperature drop say the only logical cause for the temp change is the Sun. And please tell us why CO2 levels don't match temp changes but Sun cycles actually do? It's long been known to climatologists that CO2 levels rise AFTER temps rise and not before.
- TVarmy, on 08/15/2008, -0/+3I think the basic ideas of these rants is to show that we're not living in a way that can go on forever. We need to make some big changes now so we aren't forced to make bigger, more painful changes later. I'd prefer electric public transport becoming the dominant form of travel over mass extinction.
- inactive, on 08/15/2008, -0/+3Well, it's a natural assumption to make, and one that the scientific community has largely embraced. However, it would be revolutionary if proven wrong. Come on, don't be coy, you're apparently holding out on some previously unknown scientific discovery.
To be completely honest, I seriously doubt you have any such knowledge. You're just a right wing tool who doesn't give a ***** about science. This goes far beyond AGW, do you understand? This is about the entire field of climatology. It boggles my mind how idiotic, simple, and narrow-minded you people can be. You would reduce the entire study of climatology to a single variable simply because you're afraid that Al Gore is going to take over an rule as King of Earth or something.
I fully admit, there is a very strong possibility that global warming isn't our fault. But I'm not gonna sit by and let retards like you trash an entire field of science simply because you don't like what it's telling you. You're no better than those goddamn moronic Creationists, who, despite having no real arguments whatsoever, insist on making complete asses of themselves because they're upset that the entire scientific community disagrees with their interpretation of the Bible. - Indrius, on 08/15/2008, -1/+4I highly suggest you go and watch documentary "Life After People" (2008) (there's a low quality copy in youtube too I guess)
A few hundred years after the last human being dies, almost no sign of our existence will be left. - getbusyliving, on 08/14/2008, -3/+6True enough man. I'm sick of these Digg retards taking some quote from George Carlin and making it the mantra of their lives.
- FelixDrylock, on 08/15/2008, -0/+3STOP THE PRESSES! BREAKING NEWS! MAN IS HURTING THE PLANET! WHY WAS THERE NO WARNING!?!?!?
Oh wait, didn't Al Gore tell me this a couple years ago? - frankengeek, on 08/15/2008, -2/+5Your so close that you can't see it can you? "The dust storms produce large year-to-year variability." But our planet doesn't??? again, it doesn't fit the mold. Your science sees the unpredictability but your conclusions have become a religion in itself.
- Spire3660, on 08/14/2008, -1/+4Asteroids, comets and other high mass high velocity objects seem to be the biggest threat to me. I mean, have you SEEN the surface of the moon?
- Iztikeit, on 08/15/2008, -0/+3He's not that ugly and for being the best Olympian of all time he surly has good character it seems.
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