The forcast , this week for my location is the 50s through next week. Al Gore, say it isn't so.

 

Yeah...and I guess those receding glaciers in Greenland open up new opportunities for golf course development.

 

See what happens when Gore shuts his trap and stops spewing all that hot air... We're 20 below normal!

J

 

I'm looking at 22 degrees here in North Florida!

 

Burrrrr

 

ugh ... it is really cold here. Not as bad as Yarb .. but, definitely colder than Chip. No ... it's NOT a 'happy medium' in case you were wondering


I'm working on some 'redneck' technology to help offset this issue though.

 

I thought the debate was over the science was settled???



LOL

and for every inch that a glacier or ice cap receeds, an inch is added elsewhere

I find it funny that people freak out over a glacier receeding.... like they dont do that naturally...anyone ever heard of a cirque or the matterhorn or a glacial canyon? all leftovers of glaciers that no longer exist and other ice/thaw cycles....

 

Later on this week, I'm heading up to the mountains of GA/TN where it's 9 degrees... burrr!!! LAYERS LAYERS LAYERS!!

 

I think that you would be hard pressed to find that for every inch of glacial recession there is an inch of glacial increase. I think that the best availalbe evidence is that generally there is an overall increase. The fact of the matter is that, when it comes to whether there is global warming caused by man, the least reliable source of information is likely to be on an automobile forum. I doubt few of us are qualified to render an expert opinion one way or the other about it, and our opinions ought to be taken for the generally uninformed opinions that they are.

As for me, I think the science is pretty convincing to a lay person. Yet that's just my own opinon which people can take or leave for what it's worth.

But then the question become what to do about global warming. The reality is that there probably isn't much that people want to do about it. In the West, our economies and lifestyles are too dependent on energy consumption for people to do more than pay lip service to efforts to reverse global warming. In the developing countries, there is a sentiment that global warming is nothing more than an effort by the rich, industiralized countries to keep down the prosperity of the Third World. What's more, population increases are such that by the end of the Century there may very well be 12,000,000,000 people on the planet, all of them clamoring for energy and resources. I simply don't think that the planet can sustain that many people.

However, I just don't see anything happening in the short run to make people want to limit global warming. But maybe with increased populations, the chances for increased mortality of large percentages of people will increase, say because of infection, disease or starvation, and mankind will be naturally culled. Imagine what the world would be like if we had a reduction in human population by fifty or sixty percent.

Happy New Year!

 

You've made my point precisely. There's not enough of a consensus to do anything about global warming anyway even if its existence as a scientific probability could be proven to the satisfaction of the majority of people. So why do anything about it or pollution in general for that matter? We'll never get people to agree on what to do.

We therefore ought to party like there's no tomorrow. Remove all pollution control devices from every internal combustion engine on the planet! Sell leaded gas! Do away with every environmental regulation! Imagine how much cheaper things would be! Drill baby! Drill! Nuclear power...go for it! And there's no need to saddle the power industry with regulations that make it more expensive to dispose of spent nuclear materials. Just put those spent fuel rods in the local land fill. We would also be better off if we eliminated all protections designed to perserve wild life, wetlands and natural areas and to promote clean water. Sell off all public lands! Eat fish with mercury poisoning!

You're absolutely right! Humans are not aliens to the planet. Let's enjoy it while we're here. The planet will self-correct. The planet's been here for billions of years before humans evolved, and it will be here for billions of years after we're extinct. Life on the planet will continue even if humans are dead.

So don't worry! Be happy!