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- Enfenestrate, on 10/10/2007, -2/+48Well, I'm happy to learn that global warming is not going to destroy gravity, or any other fundamental laws of physics.
- physphd, on 10/10/2007, -5/+40What an idiotic quote. Newsflash: 10,000 years is the blink of an eye on the geologic timescale, and 99.9% of all species that have ever lived have gone extinct.
Then again, this hack doesn't believe the holocaust happened, doesn't believe that HIV causes AIDS, doesn't believe in evolution and so on.
Probably not the best guy to quote if you want to be take seriously.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_P._Hogan_(write ... - BobbleBingnut, on 10/10/2007, -6/+40Along with so many other plant and animal species!
- didgital, on 10/10/2007, -0/+31Whether we decide to stem this problem or let nature take it's course, ol Momma earth is gonna win in the long run.
- johndi, on 10/10/2007, -2/+28Carlin has been saying this for years.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -10/+36There have been 5 major extinction catastrofes since the Cambrian. We are now in the middle of the sixth, but we are being told to keep our eye on te magicians left hand, while the right is actually doing the trick.
If we are truly concerned about biodiversity and the health of the planet, what we need to take more care of is the loss of natural habitat around the globe. It is much more important than the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. - petoria, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22"Whatcha gonna do Brother?"
- Terry "Hulk" Hogan - Travisty2012, on 10/10/2007, -4/+23Yeah, but in the history of the planet, there have been at least 2 mass extinctions where the majority of the life on this planet was killed. Nothing a billion years of evolution can't fix.
- jj101, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Are the two not directly linked? Vegetation is responsible is responsible for converting CO2 into oxygen and sustaining our atmosphere. Is the cause be more important than the effect - especially as there are other causes too?
- Kinkistyle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Germs and viruses are doing their best, but goddamn those confounding doctors!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13To quote George Carlin: "The planet is fine, the people are *****."
- thcobbs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11No, the big friendly letters say "DON'T PANIC".
- rudy23, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10nope. the sun is gonna chew its ass 5 billion years from now
- disabled4diggin, on 10/10/2007, -5/+15UPDATE!!! Global warming is bad for humans!
Just for all the people that didn't know that, and didn't want to learn this new fact from reading this long article. - noahtron, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11george carlin said something similar once...
it is the height of arrogance to believe that the planet needs US to save it
the planet has been through much, MUCH worse than us!
the planet ain't going anywhere. WE are!
our kids are going to be living in misery if we don't change the way we live!
i find it's a much more feasible argument for eco-mindedness than all this abstract 'gaia' stuff... - fearlessfrog, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Close, but no hoagie.
Cockroaches require heat and we provide that in our homes. If we all died then our nice cosy Homes/Roach Motels would all go cold, and the cockroaches would generally (as a species) retreat back to the tropics: Which is where they came from in the first place, so probably in the far future this temporary period of Human dominance will be known as 'The time we, the Cockroach Overlords, went on a freebie warm vacation and ate trash'... - mescad, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9I bet that's what they said on Venus a billion years ago. While global warming on Earth is as ridiculously far from that level , it still shows the point that global warming isn't always meaningless to the rest of the planet.
- markperia, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8why does everything have to be political? Here's a thought, why not just ***** care about this place we're living on by ourselves? Take responsibility and act accordingly. No one's gonna get hurt if you throw that can of coke in the recycle bin instead of the sidewalk.
- Reaperman, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10Venus is a runaway train of global warming, sulfur skies, 700 degree tempratures (or something like that)
Earth wont go that far, but thats what greenhouse gas can cause. - Blandyman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Politics doesn't have anything to do with it. You say the left tries to scare you with global warming and the right tries to scare you with terrorism. Fact of the matter is, you're being scared by everybody and all you have to worry about is yourself and your neighbors. That's what the U.S., presumably the country you live in (sorry if I'm wrong), is/was based on.
Just do what you can. It's not a scare tactic, it's the truth. Left or right, the world is still being hurt more just because a lot of people don't recycle, don't drive efficient cars/use efficient methods of travel (mass transport, bikes, sidewalks, gasp!) or: Just. Don't. Care.
It's a tragedy, really. - emomakesmecry, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10It seems that many of the commenters haven't even read the article. What's wrong, is the MTV generation too ADD to be able to read a page and a half? This is actually a very well written article with some very good points. I'm showing this to my moronic friend who still doesn't believe that Global Warming is an issue.
- Jugalator, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Huh? Of course global warming is true. The temperature has been climbing pretty good acording to measurements. But the question isn't if it's true, but how much humanity is contributing to it.
- mescad, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6some would argue that the rest of life on earth would have a much better chance of thriving without the humans
- enderu, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9Your comment displays a severe lack of knowledge. Our atmosphere has more CO2 in it today than it has in recorded history (dating back hundreds of thousands of years, thanks to Antarctic ice cores). Putting aside the "who's responsible" debate (which shouldn't even be a debate, as it's quite obvious), every time the CO2 levels have risen, temperature has risen in step. Scientists aren't exactly sure why, or which causes which, but there's no doubt they are strongly correlated. All it takes is a few degree change in average temperature over a relatively short time span (decades - centuries) and thousands of species will be wiped from our planet due to rainfall changes, vegetation changes, desert expansion, etc.
Graphs and citations here: http://www.daviesand.com/Choices/Precautionary_Pla ... - frazw, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6It's a sad state of affairs when you are willing to throw aside all arguments and trust no-one. Everything that costs something is a con eh?
May I ask if you have done any research into global warming? Have you read any scientific journals on the subject or can I assume that you don't trust scientists either. - slapded, on 10/10/2007, -7/+12pics or it isnt happening
- reuscel, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Maybe our genetic scientists can find a way to cross breed a human with a cockroach.
Are you listening, scientists? This could be the solution.
Or we could just stop driving gas guzzlers. - Dylan47, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5As new evidence is discovered, new prediction can be made and old ones refined. The current hype over global warming is well justified, there is allot of solid evidence. Your demonstrating you lack of knowledge on the subject by arguing against points that were never made, the sun has little to with it, its not getting any hotter (not significantly anyway). your comment is also looked down upon because of your crude method of expressing yourself, "BS BS BS".
- Arrhenius, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Projecting what would happen IF reflective aerosols quadrupled, is a far, far cry from predicting an eminent ice age.
Ironically, R&S primary scientific mistake in that paper was to underestimate the effects of CO2.
Thus in the bizzaro-world wingnut version of science, a single paper from two scientists that underestimated the effects of CO2 somehow invalidates the next 35 years of research by thousands of scientists.
If any scientist anywhere at any time makes a mistake, well now I have unlimited license to discard any scientific finding that is inconvenient to me or my political beliefs. - rudy23, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4winner
- Namco, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Try going back and listening to that again dumbass.
- john2kx, on 10/10/2007, -15/+19OH MY GOD EVERYBODY PANIC!!!
- VenTatsu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Good job countering an argument he didn't even make. caferrell didn't say whether or not he accepted global warming only that destruction of habitat is a more serious issue. It is possible to believe both that global warming is a real problem caused by humans and that loss of habitat is a more important and pressing concern.
- wizbor, on 10/10/2007, -6/+10Wait a minute, we are already suppose to be dead! Thats what these same people told us in the 70's. We're all gonna die from global cooling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling
"...Rasool and Schneider theorized that aerosols were more likely to contribute to climate change in the foreseeable future than greenhouse gases, stating that quadrupling aerosols "could decrease the mean surface temperature (of Earth) by as much as 3.5 C. If sustained over a period of several years, such a temperature decrease could be sufficient to trigger an ice age!" - frazw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Not everyone is trying to scare you. Some just tell it like it is and that simple truth is what scares you not the people telling you it. Unless you have gone past critical thinking into skeptical thinking.
- ratrace, on 10/10/2007, -4/+7We need less people. Humans are viruses and the planet is working on the cure.
- zengonzo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Yeah, or we could just take a nap.
We cured polio! We've been to the Moon! But why make an effort towards survival, right? - ssravp, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Dugg for this line...."It is also obvious from published research that human activity is a cause of change; we just don't know how big its specific contribution is."
- MagicCake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3What's this "elsewhere" you're referring to? ***** insane conspiracy nuts? Global warming is not an idea, or a theory. It's a fact. And humans are contributing to it. There's nothing to argue, it doesn't matter what you believe.
- bjs3171, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4uh, no ***** *****. the planet's obviously gonna be fine, it's a giant ***** rock. Polar Bears, on the other hand...
- MagicCake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The corporations? You mean the ones that are causing many of the problems and refuse to change to make it better? Why the ***** would they bring up global warming? I think it's more likely the "corporations" are the ones who planted the idea that this was all just conjecture and not the conclusion of solid research.
- roodammy44, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I bet they weren't thinking that in 19th century London where people were living on polluted streets dying from cholera.
It's not always going to be better. - Hetman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Even if it is the sun it is still Global warming and we still have to prepare for the changes it is going to make.
- Szandor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3No, it's called natural selection and what we are doing is very unnatural.
- Dylan47, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3You can't discount human intelligence and ingenuity from your evaluation, those two qualities are what defines us. Why would you discount our technology? it is an asset that we have created and can create again if its lost. Humans are adaptable, and it is because of our intelligence and the resultant technology that we achieve this and how we've inhabited the vastness of earth and soon outer space and other planets. If that isn't adaptability..
- mescad, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3You can't stop the sun (or if you can, please don't) but you can control how much it affects your life. Your comment is basically equivalent to saying, "The sun will always burn people, there's nothing you can do to prevent sunburn. What are you going to do, somehow block out the sun? Stop watching swimsuit competitions who advertise sunblock!"
Global warming has nothing to do with altering the sun. It's about altering the atmosphere which keeps in the heat that's already here. - Namco, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Actually to quote the dinosaurs, "Rooraaaaarrr..... rraaaarrrr..... gggrrrrraaaaaaaaarrrrrrr". Whatever it translates to, I'm pretty sure that they didn't die from global ***** warming.
- Arrhenius, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3"Go read up on the sun and how much hotter it is"
I have, and it isn't - not for the past three or four decades anyway.
The clouds that cover Venus are so reflective that the surface of Venus gets less energy than does the surface of Earth. Yet Venus is hotter than Mercury. - zengonzo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3No kidding. How did the manners everyone's grandma taught them get left off in this instance. Clean your room! What, were you raised in a barn?
Probably was raised in a barn, along with all the other primitives .. -
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