Global Warming
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Global Warming
As a young man I was never really worried about global warming - I've been hearing the same stuff since I was a little kid and have seen nothing but movies talk about it. Now that I have kids, and hoping one day they will have kids as well, I'm beginning to pay more attention to this little planet we live on. I read this on CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/12/29...c.ap/index.html
and thought that maybe that movie "The Day After Tomorrow" wasn't so far fetched after all...
Are you worried? Without making this a political debate (my member subscription was up and I haven't paid so I can't get into the political forum), I'm curious to find out what your thoughts/worries were about this.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/12/29...c.ap/index.html
and thought that maybe that movie "The Day After Tomorrow" wasn't so far fetched after all...
Are you worried? Without making this a political debate (my member subscription was up and I haven't paid so I can't get into the political forum), I'm curious to find out what your thoughts/worries were about this.
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When I brought up global warming at x-mas......my relatives (republicans) said "Global Warming.....tell that to Colorado". 
I am not personally worried about it. I feel that I will be worm food before it is an issue, but I do try to recycle and be somewhat conscience.... of course driving a V10 F250 isn't very good for the world....
edit - aghahah.. if this gets moved, you won't be able to see it.
I am not personally worried about it. I feel that I will be worm food before it is an issue, but I do try to recycle and be somewhat conscience.... of course driving a V10 F250 isn't very good for the world....
edit - aghahah.. if this gets moved, you won't be able to see it.
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what can one person do? I have encouraged people at my work to recycle .....I even have piles of shit in my office that I take home to recycle and I just tell them to put their newspapers, etc... on my piles.... but they still throw them right into the trash....
It is just like trying to change eating / smoking habits.... people don't seem to give a shit about anything anymore.... too ****ing lazy to hand me their WSJ or coke can.
It is just like trying to change eating / smoking habits.... people don't seem to give a shit about anything anymore.... too ****ing lazy to hand me their WSJ or coke can.
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i would think s2000 drivers would appriciate global warming. more top down driving time.
jk
but on a serious note, i doubt that human life will just all suddenly die out when some type of major incident happens.
jk
but on a serious note, i doubt that human life will just all suddenly die out when some type of major incident happens.
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In all honesty I think humans in general are very resilient creatures. As the times change and the Earth evolves, fabricated by man or not, humans will evolve with it. We may have to struggle but man has the capability to overcome.
When you look at the big picture it does not really matter by which means we generate electricity or provide better means of transportation we still effect the environment in ways which are negative to the natural order of things. Clean burning coal plants still are burning coal, nuclear plants still produce hazardous waste, hydrogen fuel cells have the potential of adding millions of tones of water vapor in to the atmosphere, and the trash we throw away each day decays and pollutes water supplies.
Don't get me wrong, i am not a green thumb. I drive a s2k.
But I think that we are approaching the point where man will have to struggle to survive while nature figures things out for its self. In a hundred years or so we may have the technology to actually cliam we are masters of our little blue planet but for now we are at the mercy of its own design.
But then again no one person can really see that big.
When you look at the big picture it does not really matter by which means we generate electricity or provide better means of transportation we still effect the environment in ways which are negative to the natural order of things. Clean burning coal plants still are burning coal, nuclear plants still produce hazardous waste, hydrogen fuel cells have the potential of adding millions of tones of water vapor in to the atmosphere, and the trash we throw away each day decays and pollutes water supplies.
Don't get me wrong, i am not a green thumb. I drive a s2k.
But I think that we are approaching the point where man will have to struggle to survive while nature figures things out for its self. In a hundred years or so we may have the technology to actually cliam we are masters of our little blue planet but for now we are at the mercy of its own design. But then again no one person can really see that big.
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It won't affect us or many generations thereafter. Stossel did a piece on it and found through his research (with several top tier scientists backing), it'll be a loooooooong time before any significant affects of global warming hit humans.
By that time who knows, one of the several billons of asteroids can have Earth's name on it and wipe it out for another Ice Age.
By that time who knows, one of the several billons of asteroids can have Earth's name on it and wipe it out for another Ice Age.
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I'm old enough to remember the same set of dopes saying another Ice Age was coming in the 70's, or that we were going to run out of food, or the earth's population would explode and on and on....
The fact is the earth has been colder than it is now and its been warmer than it is now. Human sources of CO2 are a tiny FRACTION of natural sources (volcanoes, forest fires). Additionally, science only has about 50 years of passingly accurate weather data. That is beyond statistically meaningless.
The fact is the earth has been colder than it is now and its been warmer than it is now. Human sources of CO2 are a tiny FRACTION of natural sources (volcanoes, forest fires). Additionally, science only has about 50 years of passingly accurate weather data. That is beyond statistically meaningless.
