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| Thread ID: 96380 | 2009-01-08 19:31:00 | Fox and Franz | Twelvevolts (5457) | PC World Chat |
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| 736428 | 2009-01-09 05:10:00 | Some visitors get over-excited when they see the beautiful NZ views :) | SuSu (12582) | ||
| 736429 | 2009-01-09 05:30:00 | Try flying to the top. :eek: Grabbing some ice, a bottle of OJ and having a fresh slushy. One thing that I could have done a Franz. |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 736430 | 2009-01-09 05:32:00 | Let's just hope that OSH don't jump in feet first and ruin the pleasure of the glaciers for everyone. When we climbed, we went with guides, you could hear the awesome cracking and crashing of falling ice. There were the warning notices everywhere. No, wait! Don't they only apply to other people? On a visit to White Island, we were given strict instructions where we could and couldn't go. A few moments later we saw some clown heading directly to the 'no-go' area. The should have left him on the island to test his walking on water skills to get back to the mainland. OSH should have nothing to do with bits of falling from an advancing glacier. O is for occupation tourists looking at ice aren't an occupation. The fact that the glacier is advancing means global warming is a load of hogwash. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 736431 | 2009-01-09 06:25:00 | Umm, glaciers always move down hill, the NZ glacier end points have all reduced drastically back from where they used to be. Anyone denying man-made global warming deserves their own special form of Darwin Award it's just that the rest of us pay the price with them. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 736432 | 2009-01-09 06:29:00 | so,without us and our tiny contribution the worlds temperature would remain static, even though it has been on the move........since the dawn of creation? **** me dead. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 736433 | 2009-01-09 10:12:00 | Our tiny contribution???????????? Have you looked around recently, the world's eco-system is being devastated by the activities of mankind. The signs are everywhere and reported daily in the newspapers and on the internet, this year was the 7th hottest year on record, the arctic ice is the smallest it has ever been, forests in Siberia are falling over as the perma-frost thaws, that has never happened before in human history. Well established communities in Iceland and around he Arctic are having to leave and abandon their ancient lifestyles because the creatures they rely on are no longer there in sufficient quantities. The Amazon rain forests are being chopped down/disappearing and this is going to have an effect that no one can predict but it is not going to be good. Not bothering to mention owr use of fossil fuels and all the other contributing factors we are doing which are adding to upsetting the stability of the feed-back loops which maintain the balance between the energy at the Equator and the Poles to put it simply. As soon as the sine wave turns into a square wave because the loops have lost control we will be heading into a new ice age, good luck with that, I have seen evidence of terminal moraines on the Canterbury Plains that look like glaciers a quarter of a mile thick made them. There are more people alive now at this very moment than have ever lived on Earth before 1950, you think about that. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 736434 | 2009-01-09 10:20:00 | Yeah, The environment changes, and life on earth will adapt or die out. Its a bit of a cycle in case you haven't noticed. You make the mistake of thinking history is about humans. We are just the dominant species during this phase of this cycle.A blink in time. Hell yes an ice age is coming, It always has been. And another one after that. Though no, I don't support raping the land and polluting the air and oceans,That has to stop. Great sunny weather the last few days aye? |
Metla (12) | ||
| 736435 | 2009-01-09 10:49:00 | Yep, amazing weather, hasn't been like this since I came here in Feb 1973 was record temps the day before we drove into Chch, did you hear about the large jelly fish in the sea close to NZ beaches? That is one of the precursors, out breaks of jelly fish, they like warm seas | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 736436 | 2009-01-09 19:11:00 | Thats funny when I was at school they told us we were going into another ice age. So if we release more carbon from old plants and dinosaurs (burning coal and crude oil) we will mitigate the effects of the impending ice age.Yes it was hot in SI in summer 1973 I remember the tar seal roads melting in Nelson that year. Hasn't happened since so the world may have cooled since then. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 736437 | 2009-01-09 20:02:00 | Yes, those were the years of hot dry summers here in the Bay. That lasted for quite a while and was particularly bad in the early '80s. Paddocks with no grass at all. But, the world keeps turning and the climate keeps changing. Man is not helping matters, but is not the only cause as some would think we should believe. If mankind were to suffer a plague and were almost destroyed leaving a minimal population on earth, the climate would not change. Just keep on keeping on till the next cycle starts. Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
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