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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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| 1163918 | 2010-12-22 18:08:00 | Volcanoes are sporadic whereas human activity is continuous and cumulative. If I remember correctly, It was said that the Iceland volcano released more crap into the atmosphere than humans have ever done since we existed. |
Colpol (444) | ||
| 1163919 | 2010-12-22 19:51:00 | If I remember correctly, It was said that the Iceland volcano released more crap into the atmosphere than humans have ever done since we existed. Yes, and they said the same about the Pinatubo one in the Philippines a years ago. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1163920 | 2010-12-22 22:49:00 | Some mates in aussie sent us vid they took of some epic hail. i'll post a link to it soon | The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1163921 | 2010-12-22 22:52:00 | Yes, and they said the same about the Pinatubo one in the Philippines a years ago. Pinatubo did, the iceland one reversed all the work we have done in the last 5 years. It said Pinatubo released more CO2 than 40 million :eek: years of humans on the earth i think |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1163922 | 2010-12-23 00:04:00 | If I remember correctly, It was said that the Iceland volcano released more crap into the atmosphere than humans have ever done since we existed. You have take such claims with a grain of salt; there is no way of accurately measuring the amount of CO2 amongst many other gases and debris that any volcanoes spew out. On the same page, the same grain of salt has to be present when you take claims about climate change. It's all about a healthy amount skepticism in both sides of the argument to come to a rationalised conclusion, not one that is swayed towards your pre-determined belief that may be influenced by other factors, such as the money grabbing ETS and the like. Pinatubo did, the iceland one reversed all the work we have done in the last 5 years. It said Pinatubo released more CO2 than 40 million :eek: years of humans on the earth i think That is ridiculous; the earliest Homo sapiens have only been in existence for around 250k years ago. Our first environmentally damaging practice would probably be agriculture and forest burning, which IIRC we figured out how to do some 30-50k years ago. It is only in the last couple of hundreds years that we have been truly pillaging the land, atmosphere and water. |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 1163923 | 2010-12-23 00:13:00 | yeah was an email and probably a load of horse **** but sounded good, makes the greenies squirm | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1163924 | 2010-12-23 05:14:00 | www.youtube.com Hail |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1163925 | 2010-12-23 07:16:00 | I wish aforesaid ice age would hurry up. I'm positively melting up here in Northland. Must be 120 percent humidity at least. Water to air ratio is so bad I think I just saw a kahawai swim past my window.. :waughh: | Catweazle (2535) | ||
| 1163926 | 2010-12-23 11:32:00 | Still not getting it hey, the predictions are that there will be increasing weather instability, both hot and cold, wet and dry, due to increasing energy in the system (the net losses of all of mankind's exploits which are new to the situation) (so-called global warming), if the global weather systems are finely balanced then it is possible we will flip into another 10,000 year or more ice age because the heat from the Equatorial regions will not be transferred to the poles due to disruptions in the Atlantic Conveyor and Gulf Stream. This has happened a number of times in the past and fears are that our activities will cause it to prematurely happen again. You're actually right, but I don't give you much chance of convincing our friends here! Look at it another way:- if you get a weather system that pulls down air from the arctic (or antarctic in the southern hemisphere), then it will get damn cold. Global warming notwithstanding, the polar regions are cold by our day-to-day standards. So the question becomes, why are these weather patterns apparently increasing in frequency? |
Jayess64 (8703) | ||
| 1163927 | 2010-12-23 17:35:00 | So the question becomes, why are these weather patterns apparently increasing in frequency? That's a very interesting point that I have often thought of over the years. When you see floods and snow on tv etc and they say its the worst flood since xxxx, I often think well you can only get "worse weather" as a news item. They are not going to come on tv and say the weather in Yugoslavia has been boringly the same each year since xxxx. |
Digby (677) | ||
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