Scary Result of Global Warming

The_Fool

I just saw an article about how the Arctic ice has shrunk to an all-time low. It also describes how it can affect the world's weather. Not only will extreme weather get more extreme, but it will last longer. Droughts will be worse and last longer. Not only does this affect all of us, it affects nature as well. I may be around long enough to see it completely disappear. I don't know about you, but I am quite worried.

http://news.yahoo.com/arctic-ice-shr...175242723.html

Mikedogg · *Last edited by Mikedogg; 09-20-2012 at 18:29.*

WhiteLightning · 09-20-2012, 17:30 | posts: 20,604 | Location: Netherlands

yeah its pretty ****. but what can you do ?

Texter · 09-20-2012, 18:21 | posts: 2,157 | Location: Netherlands

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but what can you do ?

Sail the northern passage again...a community of Russian traders used to do that for a living until the Czar had them all killed for tax evasion...

momomo67890 · 09-20-2012, 18:24 | posts: 2,664 | Location: Austin Tx

hahhaha

if it all melts my house at the beach will be beach front property

JohnMaclane · 09-20-2012, 18:42 | posts: 4,837 | Location: Malta

With the current economic crisis there is zero chance that any significant environmental legislation will pass.

PhazeDelta1 · 09-20-2012, 18:51 | posts: 9,527 | Location: 90° N

It's a known fact that the eart goes through a cooling and warming cycle. Nothing to see here folks. Besides, after December 21 we wont have to worry about Global Warming.

Mikedogg · 09-20-2012, 19:01 | posts: 2,872 | Location: The Freak Show - Earth.

Seriously folks, life is just so much more easier when you just don't give a sh!t.

Postalisback · 09-20-2012, 21:01 | posts: 3,569 | Location: pualuiɟ

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Seriously folks, life is just so much more easier when you just don't give a sh!t.

+1

XBEAST · 09-20-2012, 21:05 | posts: 1,452 | Location: Unknown

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Originally Posted by Ignoramus

Seriously folks, life is just so much more easier when you just don't give a sh!t.

True, it's easier for us. Not for those who we might help if we stop being ignorant.

One does not give a sh!t until gets directly affected.

The_Fool · *Last edited by The_Fool; 09-20-2012 at 21:12.*

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Originally Posted by PhazeDelta1

It's a known fact that the eart goes through a cooling and warming cycle. Nothing to see here folks. Besides, after December 21 we wont have to worry about Global Warming.

Sure. After runaway global warming comes a global ice age. We're just accelerating the process.

Of course, I can't do anything about it. I can't make companies actually spend money to help. I'm still concerned, though.

The polar ice cap melting may not directly affect people, but the resulting weather does.

The Laughing Ma · 09-20-2012, 21:14 | posts: 1,954

Yeah can't be bothered with arguing how legit the issue really is cause I am firmly in the what the hell can I do about it camp, I recycle so surely I've saved the world....

oh I haven't, oh well!

CyberPaddy · 09-20-2012, 22:05 | posts: 417 | Location: Todmorden

men, soem of u are takin this far too lightly! its like 2 massiev breast pressed against ur face and eventuelly it will suffocate u, u cannot be ignorant of fact of global warming

---TK--- · 09-20-2012, 22:07 | posts: 14,935 | Location: New Jersey, USA

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Originally Posted by CyberPaddy

men, soem of u are takin this far too lightly! its like 2 massiev breast pressed against ur face and eventuelly it will suffocate u, u cannot be ignorant of fact of global warming

sounds like a great night

Anarion · 09-20-2012, 22:11 | posts: 9,275 | Location: Finland

Blaah... Climate has always been changing.

iFRAC7UR3 · 09-20-2012, 22:11 | posts: 359 | Location: Norway

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Originally Posted by PhazeDelta1

It's a known fact that the eart goes through a cooling and warming cycle. Nothing to see here folks. Besides, after December 21 we wont have to worry about Global Warming.

hahaha, indeed

only a couple of months away

Mikedogg · *Last edited by Mikedogg; 09-20-2012 at 22:39.*

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Originally Posted by XBEAST

True, it's easier for us. Not for those who we might help if we stop being ignorant.

One does not give a sh!t until gets directly affected.

"Ignoramus", cleaver *clap clap*

Sh!t, you're talking about me as if you know me fella. Thing is, I get affected by serious matters everyday. After a while it all just wears a bit thin.

And here we are, freaking out about global warming instead of more important things that are happening a lot more faster and frequently then global warming because of all the hype it has gotten from the media and that money grubbing blood sucking douche bag "Al Gore" and his "get rich quick" taxation scheme.

Yes, global warming is a very real thing - but that's not to say that we are a big cause of it, we pale in comparison compared to the cycle of nature and the natural heating of the sun. Many factors to consider before we can blame ourselves for it's cause.

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Originally Posted by PhazeDelta1

Besides, after December 21 we wont have to worry about Global Warming.

One can only hope. There is in no way the next species can possibly **** things up as much as we have.

Roll on baby, roll on.

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sounds like a great night

Serious lol.

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Originally Posted by Anarion

Blaah... Climate has always been changing.

^This, most defiantly this. I'm just trying to figure out why people get so hyped up about things they can not change. It's like those who live in the past and wish they could change certain aspects of it, but they know they can't.

Bugged if I know.

Anfield82 · 09-20-2012, 22:25 | posts: 1,107 | Location: UK

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Originally Posted by CyberPaddy

men, soem of u are takin this far too lightly! its like 2 massiev breast pressed against ur face and eventuelly it will suffocate u, u cannot be ignorant of fact of global warming

scheherazade · 09-20-2012, 22:25 | posts: 1,962 | Location: NOVA

Like all things, there's the local optima, and the global optima.
Global optima is only reached when all local optima are abandoned.
But any agent looking for the local optima in ignorance of the global can get ahead of the rest.
And the world isn't altruistic enough for people to act for the good of everyone.

I love how people that argue against global warming forget that subject of debate is "Are people the cause of global warming" - and somehow they get on the "is there even global warming" discussion.

When data shows definitively that the earth atmospheric temperature is on the rise - regardless of what the underlying cause may be.

Even if it is a purely a natural process [and all we've emitted hasn't even mattered] we can still mandate changes to our behavior that would offset the natural process in order to preserve the environment in a state that we need it to be for humanity to prosper.

In a sense, the blame/cause is irrelevant - when the only thing we can do to influence temperatures is the same regardless of the initial cause (reduction if greenhouse gasses).

But yeah, nothing individuals can do.

-scheherazade

hallryu · 09-20-2012, 22:31 | posts: 10,881 | Location: England

Apparently the UK will end up with a climate very much like Madeira.

I can live with that.

Africa however will be mostly unliveable, none of us can live with that.

EspHack · 09-20-2012, 22:33 | posts: 1,593

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Originally Posted by Anarion

Blaah... Climate has always been changing.

this^

and if you cant do nothing for it, just ignore it

INSTG8R · 09-20-2012, 22:43 | posts: 1,188 | Location: Lost in Norway

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Originally Posted by CyberPaddy

men, soem of u are takin this far too lightly! its like 2 massiev breast pressed against ur face and eventuelly it will suffocate u, u cannot be ignorant of fact of global warming

I could think of worse ways to go...

-Tj- · 09-20-2012, 22:53 | posts: 2,659 | Location: Downtown ✈

Its just a TAX making money machine, rich get richer and poor poorer.. Nothing new..

I think our Earth is fine, the poles weren't always covered with ice anyway, sometimes they shrink sometimes they expand, but i guess they needed to make another scene out of it.. As they say time to stir up that old soup again.

Yes Industrial revolution took a hit, but imo nothing shocking, the maximum damage has already been done few 50+ years ago, besides we will run out of fossil fuel soon enough, so that's that. ;P

I have no doubt another science conspiracy theory will popup soon, lol they popup like bees at every spring

Mikedogg · *Last edited by hallryu; 09-20-2012 at 23:07. Reason: Double Post*

George Carlin on Global Warming

Maybe George can give some of you's a reality check.

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Originally Posted by -Tj-

Its just a TAX making money machine, rich get richer and poor poorer.. Nothing new..

I think our Earth is fine, the poles weren't always covered with ice anyway, sometimes they shrink sometimes they expand, but i guess they needed to make another scene out of it.. As they say time to stir up that old soup again.

Yes Industrial revolution took a hit, but imo nothing shocking, the maximum damage has already been done few 50+ years ago, besides we will run out of fossil fuel soon enough, so that's that. ;P

I have no doubt another science conspiracy theory will popup soon, lol they popup like bees at every spring

Exactly, and that was before the "continental shift" and everything seemed to survive back then (so theory has it) so I can't see what the issue is here.

Halfmead · 09-20-2012, 23:11 | posts: 53 | Location: Denmark

Let's see, Magnetic Pole shift is overdue (this one happening would solve alot of our energy problems...creating another set of problems ofc...no more Guru3d).
Arctic ice is melting, causing less sunlight/heat to be reflected back into space and so heating up atmosphere

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When warm enough, Siberian Tundra will make a methane fart so huge that cows all over the world will fall over in envy

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Sometime in the far future, the continents will crash again and form Pangea... Lets just hope, if we're still here then, that people have learned to tolerate eachother.

Happy days are coming.....