Largest scientific society issues global warming warning.
Over the weekend, the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science issued its first statement on global warming: “The scientific evidence is clear: global climate change caused by human activities is occurring now, and it is a growing threat to society. … It is time to muster the political will for concerted action. Stronger leadership at all levels is needed. The time is now. We must rise to the challenge.”
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Let me just save some time by summing up the trolls’ arguments right now:
February 20th, 2007 at 10:54 amI wonder how much burning oil fields in Iraq and constant war is contributing to CO2 levels …. A Lot I bet
February 20th, 2007 at 10:55 amScience schmyance, as long as we all die, the planet will be better off any way…
February 20th, 2007 at 11:15 amWWMCD?
February 20th, 2007 at 11:19 am#1
Trip Master:
you forgot:
“SO if there’s all this GLobal warming going on why is it still cold on the east coast!”
February 20th, 2007 at 11:52 amIn addition to the troll arguments that Trip listed in #1, I will add this:
Global warming is happening, but it is caused by “natural variations” and is a “good thing” (but never mind the question of how global warming deniers even know about climate variability, since they don’t believe anything that climatologists tell them).
February 20th, 2007 at 11:56 amTMM - thanks for the Clif notes ~ Trolls, begone!
February 20th, 2007 at 12:00 pmto cont. troll arguments:
“Even if global warming is happening, which it is not, it will be a good way to control population explosion; natural selection, like darwin said, even though evolution is a sham”
February 20th, 2007 at 12:02 pmI’m a pig.
February 20th, 2007 at 12:11 pmI love slop.
The corporate media will probably downplay this as something from the fringe left.
February 20th, 2007 at 12:16 pmSo lets stop burning fossil fuels. Build more nuclear power plants. China is building 40 over the next 15 years, and wants to build 300 over the next 50 years. India, Japan, France, and Australia are building more. Where are our new nuclear power plants?
As you see it, what are the consequences of global warming?
February 20th, 2007 at 12:28 pmThe Earth will be given another chance without the human pestilence that has destroyed it. Bacteria, cockroaches, and blue-green algae left over from the devastation will be the inheritors that will repopulate the planet.
February 20th, 2007 at 12:44 pm#11 More morons like you, due to lack of oxygen in the brain.
BTW, is your real name Charles Montgomery Burns?
February 20th, 2007 at 12:59 pmLearning Curve is definately on his own learning curve.
February 20th, 2007 at 1:31 pmHere’s one”
“Even if we stop burning fossil fuels, the rest of the world won’t, and China is the biggest polluter out there.”
OR:
“Warming is actually good for the economy”
February 20th, 2007 at 1:33 pmAs you see it, what are the consequences of global warming?
Comment by The Learning Curve
Wordwide economic collapse from the 100’s of millions of people displace from coastal areas once the oceans are inundated by billions and billions of gallons of Greenland and Antartica’s ice sheets.
Drought, famine from shifting weather patterns caused by changes in sea currents and trade winds.
More war, more disease, more suffering.
Sounds peachy, huh?
February 20th, 2007 at 1:46 pmSo you’re claiming that ocean levels would rise if the ice sheets melt? Are you sure? Is that your final answer?
Try this experiment at home. Fill a glass with water, and add some ice cubes. When the ice cubes melt, does the level of water in the glass rise?
February 20th, 2007 at 1:55 pmOther countries are building nuclear power plants like crazy to deal with the shortage in fossil fuels, CO2 emissions, and to clean up their air and water. Again, China building 40 over the next 15 years, and up to 300 over the next 50. France gets 85% of their energy from nuclear power. Russia building 42 new nuclear plants. Australia building 25. India adding 20.
Why are the US scientists not as intelligent as the scientists from France, Japan, India, China, Russia, and Australia? Another case of our school system being inferior to these other countries, especially in math and science?
Other countries are building nuclear power plants. Why aren’t we?
February 20th, 2007 at 2:00 pmTry THIS, you feeble dolt:
Take your glass of water. Next to it, a glass of ice. When the ice melts (like glaciers on LAND, Greenland’s ice sheet ON LAND), pour it into the first glass.
That’s how sea level rises occur.
Back to 3rd grade for you…
February 20th, 2007 at 2:01 pmTLC, you have no ‘final answers’ until you know how to ask the question, COMPRENDE?
February 20th, 2007 at 2:02 pmThe Learning Curve sez:
So, it’s your contention that all the ice sheets on the planet are floating in the water?
Are you sure? Is that your final answer?
Sheesh…and this from a troll who calls himself “The Learning Curve”.
TP, can we have another troll for this thread, please? This one appears to be broken.
February 20th, 2007 at 2:11 pmthis from a troll who calls himself “The Learning Curveâ€.
Comment by TripMaster Monkey — February 20, 2007 @ 2:11 pm
In his defence, he made no claims as to exactly where in the learning curve he currently is.
Another item to Verbalkint’s list: “Global warming is caused by the Sun so there is nothing we can do about it. See, there is global warming in Mars too”.
Never mind that the evidence for global warming in Mars is a lot less conclusive, and that the deniers -as usual- choose to believe scientitst in one instance but dismiss them out of hand in the other.
February 20th, 2007 at 2:21 pm21 - have you seen the movie “Idiocracy”? it’s not great, but it shows how these trolls might in fact be an indicator of our social future……the dumbness is really gathering steam - smart people need to make babies and teach them all they can.
February 20th, 2007 at 2:52 pmBoy, the hysteria has sold well to this crowd. You are easily duped.
Meanwhile, scientists from other countries have determined that nuclear energy is the best way at present to combat global warming. China, India, Japan, France, Russia and Australia are all building more nuclear power plants.
Maybe their school systems are better in those countries. From reading your responses, I can tell the US schools are horrible. Those other countries are going to pass us like we were standing still. Good job, folks.
February 20th, 2007 at 3:22 pmThese must be the reincarnated scientist that believed the sun revolved the earth and that the earth was flat. There is nothing scientific about all this–too many variables go into the computer model. It is a plot by by Dr. Evil to take over the World for Barbara Streisand.
February 20th, 2007 at 8:04 pmglobal warming is suppose to be hot gurl,
February 20th, 2007 at 8:07 pmbut it aeint, did you see danzal washington, heey!when i say dem words global warmin i just forget it and think of danzel.
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wateva
February 20th, 2007 at 8:07 pmTry this experiment at home. Fill a glass with water, and add some ice cubes. When the ice cubes melt, does the level of water in the glass rise?
A good portion of the sea level rise is due to thermal expansion of the oceans…
February 21st, 2007 at 10:31 amSo you’re claiming that ocean levels would rise if the ice sheets melt? Are you sure? Is that your final answer?
Try this experiment at home. Fill a glass with water, and add some ice cubes. When the ice cubes melt, does the level of water in the glass rise?
Hey Einstein. Do you know the difference between an ice sheet and an ice shelf?
February 21st, 2007 at 3:48 pmHi, i read in 1987 there was a forest fire about the size of britian was burned. There was 500 tonnes of CO2 relesed to the air!
March 22nd, 2007 at 5:49 pm