Climate Change Still Denied?

There will be warning signs before that happens. Especially as we will be monitoring it closer and closer with satellites and everything.

 

That's already happening, that's how they took pictures, genius....

Yeah, people will walk to higher ground - and the ecosystems that we depend upon will be trashed, and end society as we know it.

Take your "death is inevetable, why eat" attitude somewhere else, if you don't get it, for fucks sake burn your car and house, they'll be destroyed some day, and hop in a grave, tuck yourself in, and wait, we know there's no inherent meaning or reason in anything if you totally divorce yourself from being human.

 

Yea I'm not sure that picture on top is real. Did London flood?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Tomorrow

Ever see this movie?

 

LOL Yeah the top pic is a dramatization, the other two are recent history.

 

What are they pictures of?

Hurricane Andrew was real too. So was Katrina. So were the tsunamis. Had nothing to do with global warming, though.

 

This is where you are very mistaken.

Global warming is making hot days hotter, rainfall and flooding heavier, hurricanes stronger and droughts more severe. This intensification of weather and climate extremes will be the most visible impact of global warming in our everyday lives. It is also causing dangerous changes to the landscape of our world, adding stress to wildlife species and their habitat.

 

Oh. Well. Fuck.

Is there anything we can do about it?

There is nothing that is going to stop us from burning every fossil fuel we have available. And the ice caps will melt eventually, even if that takes 10,000 years.

 

Some say no, some say we can mitigate the worst effects if we cut waaay back. Some say the feedback loop has already began and we are totally fucked. Thing is, I was taught about this shit back in highschool in the late fucking '70's, and now it's all coming true.
So much for our wonderful progress and gee-whiz technology huh...

 

There is absolutely no way that we are not going to burn every last drop of every fossil fuel we have. What are we going to do? Save some in a container and just let it sit there?

It's going to happen. The geological forces of the Earth are too much for us to try to control.

I mean, I'm sure you know what Pangaea is right? That's like saying we should try to move the continents back into the shape of Pangaea. It's outside our control.

 

moving to higher ground won't mean jack-shit if the ice shelves melt and thrust the planet into another ice age, now will it?

 

There is only so much water on the planet, whether it be in liquid or ice form. There is enough continental crust so that A LOT of it will be above ground even if all of the water on the planet is in liquid form.

If there is another ice age... that would mean there would be MORE dry ground because it would be locked up in ice.

 

That ice would be covering the dry ground....

 

In an ice age, there is more land exposed because more of the Earth's water is locked up as ice. A good example would be the land bridge from Asia to Alaska during the last ice age.

I don't think it's going to get 87 below and even if it did, that was not the point of the original post and you're just going off into a tangent.

 

The OP is climate change... An ice age would be climate change, No?

 

So are we worried about global warming or global cooling? Which one is it?

We are worried that the ice caps will melt, and then send the world into an ice age that causes more ice caps to freeze?

Or are we worried about the ice melting and causing cities to go underwater?

These seem to be two opposing things.

 

Except that everything I say makes sense. Which is it..... too much liquid water you're worried about.... or too much ice?

Or are you just going to complain about everything while you wonder what it will be like in heaven so you can rub Jerry Garcia's beard?

 

Why would I do that?

 

So what are you worried about? Is it the ice melting and having too much water.... or the planet cooling and it being 87 below.

Because you see they are two conflicting things.

 

Climate change...

 

So which of those polar (no pun intended) opposites concerns you the most?