getting warmer? Global Warming leads to extinction?

*Beats both mohrg and grugg with a crowbar*
STFU this is a global warming thread not a pissing contest.


Actually, Global warming could be a good thing, Offering longer growing seasons for crops and evaporating more water thus creating, you guessed it, more rain.

Also.. i would like to see Alaska warm the fuck up a bit... getting tired of this 20 to 30 below zero (farenheit) shit.
 
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I live in a lower altitude area of Portland, Oregon.

In the last 5 or 6 years my area has never had over a half inch of snow, for more than 1 full day.

This year we had something like 2-3 inches of freezing snow for around a full week.

If anything I think we might be cooling down!
 
I vaguelly recall somewhere that global warming is not so much about the world getting warmer overall but that the extremes of weather become more intense-

Thus colder in winter and warmer in summer. The danger is that increased heat, overall, in tropical areas will destroy various species, primarily aquatic, that can't adjust to the heat for ecological reasons (destruction of plants etc.)

Last I read up on this I recall that the ice age actually came at a time of warming. Because of extremes in the weather at the poles, glaciers formed and moved more quickly, and because of that, changed other atmospheric variables to weather (winds, ground temperatures, etc.)

But again, this is all from memory.
 
You know if global warming really takes serious effect the polar icecaps will melt which would cause water to rise all around, which in turn would get the PlayBoy Mags wet.....

Why the hell didn't you slap Welsh, he asked about subscriptions!

Mohrg :twisted:
 
From what i've seen first hand over the last 5 or so years the summers in the mid-west have gotten hotter and the winter hardly brings any snow. (by midwest i mean southern wisconsin area)

this could be indicative of changeing global weather patterns.



Oh, mohrg, i didnt slap welsh cause he's a mod, i did slap you because your my bitch.
 
Its currently -7 degrees F. Global warming my foot. More like selective warming. Some places get the heat that other places are supposed to, leaving those places wicked hot, while places like here unnaturally cold. That's the new theory.
 
Its freaking 50f here in South Florida as of right now, WTF?! I am going to freezing cold weather in less then two weeks. I don need this crap right now!

Mohrg :twisted:
 
I wish it was 50 deg. Right now, I'll probably die as soon as I breath outside. The air will freeze in my lungs and the ice crystals will cut them open. It shouldn't be this freakin cold! Its not like I'm in Alaska. This is Connecticut for chrissake.
 
I'm in Australia in Summer and its nice and toasty, but then again in Sydney it was pretty much just as warm in winter. We have a drought and the rain is localised over cities, stopping where the resevoirs and agriculture land begins.

The weather is definitely getting weirder/more extreme but I think the real question is:

IS the change in weather patterns caused by humanity or is it part of some long cycle dictated by the alignment of planets, solar activity or whatever.

Heat waves in Europe, alternating floods/droughts in South America and much more weird stuff.
 
Its 28 degrees in the sun in Sydney now and the worst rain in ages was of course during the Rugby World Cup final (we have to make the Brits feel at home by making it cool and wet).

I agree with Welsh that weather is getting extreme and pity all you guys who have to freeze.

They should put Murphy's law in the Physics text books.

Where does the Phrase 'Murphy's law' come from anyway. Sounds Irish?
 
Murphey's law is actually a US Army saying.. Supposedly during WW2 there was a Private Murphey who explained it.. just kept going from there.

"Anything that can break or fail, will do so when you ned it the most."
"The easy way is always mined."
"Incomming bullets have right of way."
 
Global warming is one thing, the cause of it another. The climate of this world has changed many times without human involvement. Not long ago (relatively speaking) there was an ice age. When the Vikings came to New Foundland centuries ago they named in Wineland, presumably because grapes grew there, try growing grapes there now.

My point is that the climate is a complicated thing to say the least, to say that a hundred years of industry has had a profound effect on it might be to overestimate our own importance, especially considering that there are bigger C02 sources around naturally and that the worst of our polluters can't hold a candle to a good old volcano erruption. That's not saying that we shouldn't try to limit pollution though, there are plenty of other reason why that's a good idea.
 
they named it vinnland, not wineland, and vinnland translates out to mean "grass land" i believe.
 
Azael said:
overestimate our own importance, especially considering that there are bigger C02 sources around naturally and that the worst of our polluters can't hold a candle to a good old volcano erruption. That's not saying that we shouldn't try to limit pollution though, there are plenty of other reason why that's a good idea.
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It might not be the past 100 years of emmisions from us, but the last few centuries in which we have managed to level entire forests for fuel, resources and land, to the extent where the carbon cycle becomes unbalanced. The 'lungs of the Earth' in the Amazon and elsewhere are being cleared at the rate of hundreds of football pitches every day.

You can survive a sniper rifle hit (volcano) in fallout when you have stims but can be killed by an ant (human emmissions) when you cant heal.
 
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Elissar said:
*Beats both mohrg and grugg with a crowbar*
STFU this is a global warming thread not a pissing contest.


Actually, Global warming could be a good thing, Offering longer growing seasons for crops and evaporating more water thus creating, you guessed it, more rain.

Also.. i would like to see Alaska warm the fuck up a bit... getting tired of this 20 to 30 below zero (farenheit) shit.
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Well, Canada would really benefit from Global Warming in that sense - we could grow things more easily all across the prairies, instead of just in the south and become a real world agricultural power.
 
The extreme weather part of global warming seems to be the part I'm seeing.

As I was telling a friend earlier today, it seems like every year, at least two new weather records are set - whether it's for the coldest summer or the wettest wineer, or the warmest spring, or what.

For instance, it was +14 (Celcius) here two weeks ago, then last week it was -25 ish (colder with windchill). I think both of them set records
 
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