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February 01, 2012, 01:15:32 AM |
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Please don't misattribute quotes to me. About the substance, what if you can smell the fumes? Governments aren't necessary to tell you the Earth is warming - there is plenty of evidence for that. Because we haven't found any planets nearby that can harbor our pathetic species...
Global warming deniers always try to deny the truth by using ambiguous words.
I tried to lead the discussion towards the actual uncertainties involved in understanding global warming, and you keep trying to turn the discussion towards some vague catastrophic endgame I don't disagree with uncertainty, but this still isn't an issue we should delay. Ah sorry about the quote, it got messed up. And once again I think everyone agrees the earth has been warming. If you think something must be done about it whether or not it is due to man-made causes, ok. I would counter that perhaps adapting would be easier than developing climate control technology.
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February 01, 2012, 01:17:36 AM |
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Because we haven't found any planets nearby that can harbor our pathetic species...
Global warming deniers always try to deny the truth by using ambiguous words.
I tried to lead the discussion towards the actual uncertainties involved in understanding global warming, and you keep trying to turn the discussion towards some vague catastrophic endgame It's not an endgame for the planet. Definitely an endgame for modern day humans... The bigger our population grows and the more third world countries begin to develop, the faster the world will warm. It's all relative, and the only way we can survive on this planet is to literally co-exist... Once again... you are jumping to conclusions and talking about vague endgames rather than discussing the actual issue.
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February 01, 2012, 01:19:55 AM |
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What my post meant is that man-made Co2 is not causing the earth to heat up as are the claims.
I do not believe we are in any cycles. The earth is constantly changing. Ups and down in temp and co2 going along with it, but co2 lags temp, so co2 could not possibly be causing global warming. I do not believe man is casuing any warming of the earth or cooling of the earth.
There is no historical evidence of CO2 causing global warming, but that doesn't mean pumping a bunch in the air couldn't cause it... I agree that there is alot of evidence that climate change is being used as a political tool.
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February 01, 2012, 01:23:47 AM |
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Posts up there ^^^
1. The cycles you are referencing to in that chart happened over hundreds of thousands of years. We are seeing extreme climate change over the course of just 1 century...
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas3. It will be a very long time before fossil fuels run out. 1. The resolution of sampling climate data for the previous million years is far from accurate. No one knows if this is precedent. Period. We aren't seeing extreme climate changes, as there is absolutely no basis for comparison, nor a sample period long enough to matter. This is like basing your hashrate on one second of submitting shares, to bring it all full circle. 2. See, this is all speculation until it plays out... 3. No one knows. Period. Those charts someone posted correspond roughly to the milankovich cycles. Roughly...no one has ever been able to link more than a rough similarity, and for their accuracy in predicting ice ages, they are damn near worthless. You guys need to learn that correlation is not causation, particularly on a geologic time scale. There is no precedent for this, and everyone who thinks they know what they are talking about has only been working on it twenty years... So I suppose the last 200 years is responsible for the 'sinking' of those thousands upon thousands of islands in the past 10,000 years. Sensationalist journalism. You have probably never lived in the tropics, when a single storm can eat away 500 meters of land and plop it somewhere else, nor do you seem to know much about oceanography or climatology. Shit be changin' all the time, homie. No one's been watching long enough to know a damned thing. Dree12: Where is all this evidence you speak of? All sorts of things happen on this planet which affect the weather. Have you ever heard of a drought? Are those some modern invention of the industrial revolution... Your lifetime? Pahahahahaha....you obviously aren't a geologist.
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February 01, 2012, 01:26:25 AM |
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Not precisely what I meant Randy. Extra water melt from the caps cant be helping them boss
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February 01, 2012, 01:27:08 AM |
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Actually it is the media and forum posters, this island has not "recently sunk": But another threat has the government concerned: just barely above sea level, the islands risk going under rather sooner than later, as ocean water levels rise from the effects of global warming. What does "rather sooner than later" mean, and it is normal for the earth to warm and sea levels to change: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_sea_level_riseI AM NOT saying that sudden changes due to man are not happening. I am saying that blindly accepting what "experts" tell you is bad, accepting what the media says is even worse.
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February 01, 2012, 01:29:14 AM |
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I AM NOT saying that sudden changes due to man are not happening. I am saying that blindly accepting what "experts" tell you is bad, accepting what the media says is even worse.
Bam. This times a million.
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February 01, 2012, 01:31:12 AM |
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Dree12: Where is all this evidence you speak of? All sorts of things happen on this planet which affect the weather. Have you ever heard of a drought? Are those some modern invention of the industrial revolution...
Your lifetime? Pahahahahaha....you obviously aren't a geologist.
Correlation is not causation. This doesn't mean that correlation doesn't exist. Randy, do you live near the tropics? Closer to the poles, the warming is accellerating; it's quite scary, really. Anyone disputing it would be immediately called a dissenter and denialist here. I'm not a geologist, but geologists aren't useful here. I don't care whether warming is normal or not, it's still warming and it's still dangerous. Not precisely what I meant Randy. Extra water melt from the caps cant be helping them boss
In fact, sea level rise is partly offset by sea ice melt in the arctic and antarctic, so I'm not really concerned about this.
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February 01, 2012, 01:33:57 AM |
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Dree12: Where is all this evidence you speak of? All sorts of things happen on this planet which affect the weather. Have you ever heard of a drought? Are those some modern invention of the industrial revolution...
Your lifetime? Pahahahahaha....you obviously aren't a geologist.
I don't care whether warming is normal or not, it's still warming and it's still dangerous. I would counter that perhaps adapting would be easier than developing climate control technology.
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February 01, 2012, 02:09:41 AM |
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The human animal tries to separate itself from nature, and it is only in the context of this separation does the concept of something being "man made" even exist.
It's all natural, including the man-made part, and including the natural selection part. Humans will inevitably bump up against natural limitations they will not surmount just as obliviously as do other species. A sterilized planet is just a clean slate from an evolutionary perspective, it wouldn't last forever if it did occur.
That's the silver lining. When it comes to the earth, we may as well poke it before it's cold and see how that works out, no?
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February 01, 2012, 02:20:08 AM |
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This is a Republican forum to say the least.
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February 01, 2012, 02:21:12 AM |
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This is a Republican forum to say the least.
I'm a republican (well, republican counterpart in my country), but still very democrat from most other user's perspectives. So, yeah, this is a Republican forum.
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February 01, 2012, 02:25:52 AM |
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+1 - easier to adapt than get the whole world to change.
While they spout controls they benefot and use that cash to buy stuff in safe areas
Re the charts - zoom out a few thousand years.
But i agree co2 should be curbed too, since i like efficiency anyway
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February 01, 2012, 03:20:13 AM Last edit: February 01, 2012, 03:51:09 AM by bitcoinbitcoin113 |
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Here is a long term map of CO2 and temperature: Compare this to short term: To really understand these we need to know 1) How "Global Temperature Anomaly" is calculated 2) How "Temperature Difference" is calculated 3) How Temperature and CO2 levels were measured or estimated. Where were the measurements/samples taken from, etc. 4) If the measurements were "corrected" or "calibrated" in any way. If so, how? 5) Why neither of these charts have any error bars. Where is the ERROR?The caption for the upper figure provides us with some of this info: This figure shows the temperature record from the Vostok ice core (dark blue), together with CO2 (red) from the Vostok ice core, the Law Dome ice core, and from the Mauna Loa monitoring station in Hawaii. The near vertical line on the right represents the change in CO2 associated with the industrial revolution. http://www.brighton73.freeserve.co.uk/gw/paleo/400000yrfig.htmEven so, more self-research is necessary to understand the workflow that resulted in each of these graphs. My point is that graphs can be made to show whatever the graphmaker wants. Was the lower chart posted by flipro designed to inform or to scare? Is the upper chart designed to inform viewers about the CO2-Temp relationship, or hide the importance of more recent data by using huge scales? If you think you understand global warming and have not done this minimum amount of self-research, you are wrong. You do not really understand and can be manipulated with anecdotes and images. I am no expert in climatology, and do not have the answers to the above questions right now. My goal with this post is to contrast accepting "expert", forum poster, and journalist interpretations vs. an example of a rational approach.
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February 01, 2012, 07:09:52 AM |
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Eh, I'm more interested in discussing the science. That the field has been politicized is obvious.
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February 01, 2012, 07:30:36 AM |
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Eh, I'm more interested in discussing the science. That the field has been politicized is obvious.
Yeah, that's right. My post was not a reply to you, but to some other people here.
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February 01, 2012, 08:02:49 AM |
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Guys, global warming is true, but it has nothing to do with us. It's a natural occurrence on earth and we will all either freeze to death or burn to death if we survive long enough.
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February 01, 2012, 08:24:57 AM |
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Guys, global warming is true, but it has nothing to do with us. It's a natural occurrence on earth and we will all either freeze to death or burn to death if we survive long enough.
+1 but its not called global warming its called nature.
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