Global warming

OMG someone doesn't agree with me omg I can't take it wahhhh! Waaaahhh!

This is from NASA.. But maybe you know better than NASA.. right?

The Earth's climate has changed throughout history. Just in the last 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat, with the abrupt end of the last ice age about 7,000 years ago marking the beginning of the modern climate era — and of human civilization. Most of these climate changes are attributed to very small variations in Earth’s orbit that change the amount of solar energy our planet receives.

he current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is very likely human-induced and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented in the past 1,300 years.1

Earth-orbiting satellites and other technological advances have enabled scientists to see the big picture, collecting many different types of information about our planet and its climate on a global scale. Studying these climate data collected over many years reveal the signals of a changing climate.

Certain facts about Earth's climate are not in dispute:

• The heat-trapping nature of carbon dioxide and other gases was demonstrated in the mid-19th century.2 Their ability to affect the transfer of infrared energy through the atmosphere is the scientific basis of many JPL-designed instruments, such as AIRS. Increased levels of greenhouse gases must cause the Earth to warm in response.

• Ice cores drawn from Greenland, Antarctica, and tropical mountain glaciers show that the Earth’s climate responds to changes in solar output, in the Earth’s orbit, and in greenhouse gas levels. They also show that in the past, large changes in climate have happened very quickly, geologically-speaking: in tens of years, not in millions or even thousands.3

Here's the link:

http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

How can anyone possibly think that CO2 harms the planet? Decades ago when the planet's population wasn't close to what it is now, the planet's CO2 level was up to 14 times higher than what it is today. Stop getting carbon dioxide confused with carbon monoxide, it makes you look retarded. First the claim was that the water level rise and los angeles will be under water. Now they claim global warming causes the water level to drop lol. First the claim was that the polar bear population was drastically declining. Now they claim global warming causes the polar bear population to thrive lol. Gore claims aliens will come attack us so by paying carbon taxes we are preventing this from happening hahahaha. C'mon, don't you know what trees and plants do to CO2? You are releasing CO2 after every single time that you exhale. If you really believe that CO2 is harming the planet, why have you not killed yourself yet. Stop being so naive.

P.S. It's getting kinda cold out don't you think?

Full of bullshit!! its a cycle.. I am buying a compound by Alpine and Squa.  It will fit 14 adults and their offspring. 27.3 acares. small lake& small hill with wATER RAMP INPLACE!!

Does the fact that 99% of the climatologists out there disagree with you cause you any concern?

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I believe global warming. I also believe OWS is the biggest fucking joke I've seen in my lifetime.

NO no concern. I don't discount their opinion because that is relavent, but they create computer models that predict what they suggest. Would you tell your boss that you suck ???    I am a genious.. dont forget that

Which scientist is that?

Are you referring to the guys from England?

If you are, are you aware that after their work was reviewed for 6 months, following climategate, by an independent panel, they all got their jobs back? 

Here is a link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/08/science/earth/08climate.html?_r=1&src=mv

The scientists were not 100% cleared, only about 98%, but you can read the article yourself.

The unfortunate thing, is that after all the conservative idiots ran their mouths in the fall of 09 about 'climategate' et. al, they kept their mouths shut when the scientists were exonerated.  I would have more respect for them if they at least admitted they jumped the gun.

I urge everyone out there to do their own research.  Find out from the scientists what is going on.

It will probably not affect skiing for quite a while, but eventually it will.  There are certain places in the Alps where the glacial retreat is serious.  That does not mean we should sit by and do nothing.  The steps humanity takes now will determine how things happen 50 years from now. 

The actions to combat global warming are things we need to do anyway.  We should be going in this direction REGARDLESS of our beliefs on this subject.  There are lots of little things people can do.  If you are still using plastic bags, find a way to stop.  It is not hard to reuse bags.  If everyone cut their plastic bag use by 90% that would do something.

Al Gore first learned about this stuff while he was at Harvard.  Some of the early theories were being born when he was an undergrad there.  Anyone who says he came up with it to make money is likely a proletariat imbecile.

What does "relavent" mean?

What is a "genious."

FYI the glaciers that are receding in Norway reveal FARMS.

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