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| Thread ID: 114882 | 2010-12-21 05:32:00 | The next Ice Age looms | coldfront (15814) | PC World Chat |
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| 1163908 | 2010-12-22 01:25:00 | Anyone seen an ant piss??? Think about that in relation to what you are talking about |
coldfront (15814) | ||
| 1163909 | 2010-12-22 02:13:00 | There was a doco on Sky the other day about energy use. How to get around the decreasing oil and coal and so on. All of them missed the point. They went on about the population and estimates of what it will be in another 15 years or so, and also how much energy (per person) the average american uses compared with others and the fact that places like China and India are catching up.....so the big fix was alternate energies. how about not breeding like cockroaches? nah too simple and you need more people in a consumer society. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1163910 | 2010-12-22 03:53:00 | Latest theory is that once we hit the tipping point the time to next ice age which was thought to take a thousand years or so may be as low as 25 years perhaps less. Think of a bi-stable oscillator with feed back around it producing sine waves (steadily varying weather as we have when things are going well), as the limiting conditions are reached first of all it starts to produce square waves then flip/flop then eventually sticks in one of the two possible states. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1163911 | 2010-12-22 04:47:00 | You never know....things can unravel faster than any computer modeling results (which many are also doubtful of). Especially at our rate of growth.... Don't bring the stupid computer models into it as they are a complete crock. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1163912 | 2010-12-22 04:53:00 | As man gets even better at negating all the natural events that culled the species in the past and kept numbers down, such as disease and famine, the problem of over population is only going to be exacerbated. After all, the reproductive act is a world wide popular activity and recreation, with the natural consequence of more and more people. That is one of the problems as man is getting genetically weaker and weaker as doctors are able to keep people alive now that used to cease to be part of the gene pool. Population growth is the real problem and China did try and do something about that but it was a pity they didn't do something about their pollution at the same time. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1163913 | 2010-12-22 05:58:00 | Don't bring the stupid computer models into it as they are a complete crock. :lol: see what I mean? But seriously though. I myself don't have too much faith in computer modeling but I wouldn't dismiss it outright. |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 1163914 | 2010-12-22 06:50:00 | :lol: see what I mean? But seriously though. I myself don't have too much faith in computer modeling but I wouldn't dismiss it outright. Oh I would because they never factored in the effects of the sun for one thing (what else did they also leave out) so that means the whole model is meaningless.:groan: GIGO=garbage in garbage out |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1163915 | 2010-12-22 07:54:00 | What many people misunderstand is that there is no one definitive, conclusive prediction to climate change; computer modeling itself is but one of the many tools to consider when making inferences of the future weather. | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 1163916 | 2010-12-22 08:45:00 | Solution: we all buy fridge suits and live in weather conditions set by the Govt. Eventually the earth floods because the ice caps melt and everyone drowns | The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1163917 | 2010-12-22 12:23:00 | www.guardian.co.uk | zqwerty (97) | ||
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