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| 19 Dec 2012 04:54 PM |
However you need to have a PHD in Meteorology to predict the next Ice Age.
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| 19 Dec 2012 05:03 PM |
So you admit you are a 10 year old who has no idea what they are talking about?
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| 19 Dec 2012 05:04 PM |
"So you admit you are a 10 year old who has no idea what they are talking about?"
...no.
Anyone who can SPEAK can say "global warming isn't real". |
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| 19 Dec 2012 05:05 PM |
Not true! You can speak spanish!
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| 19 Dec 2012 05:07 PM |
Well, actually.
It's pretty much guaranteed there will be a next ice age. That's mostly how climate cycles work.
You could also relatively accurately (on the geological scale) predict when it will be, since they follow a relatively (on the geological scale) uniform distribution.
We happen to currently be IN an ice age, that we appear to be slowly leaving leaving, so that's kind of a moot point. The next one is a while away, unless something especially catastrophic happens.
The reason we're currently in an ice age is because there's still ice. Antarctica and Greenland both have ice sheets year-round. |
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| 19 Dec 2012 05:07 PM |
Plus, come time you have Regents (those living in NY) and the test has 3 questions on climate change.
Or that highschool term paper.
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| 19 Dec 2012 05:08 PM |
@Talsem That's still not something a 10 year old can say but you prove quite a good point. Cheers!
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| 19 Dec 2012 05:08 PM |
Ugh..
It is sad you know so little of the truth to think that our greenhouse gas emission (less thatn 5% of total greenhouse gases), is causing global warming! |
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| 19 Dec 2012 05:11 PM |
| You forgot the 6 before the 5, Rubiks. |
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| 19 Dec 2012 05:12 PM |
Trust me, I do not care for contributing to global warming. Just understand that it's real. Not significant, but real.
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| 19 Dec 2012 05:14 PM |
ultra-crepidarian v. - giving opinions or criticism beyond one's own range of experience.
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| 19 Dec 2012 05:14 PM |
@Rubiks
We produce about 3.87% of the world's CO2 gas. I'm not familiar with other greenhouse gases.
This is relatively small, but it is a problem. While other sources of greenhouse gas are effectively recycled and balanced by other processes which have always returned those gas to somewhere else, humans have no counterbalance.
Consequently, this 3% accumulates, while other sources effectively don't.
The reason for this is essentially that all chemicals are in pretty much constant supply on the Earth. It's their location that matters how they affect it.
Warming with CO2 adds it to the atmosphere. CO2 is relatively stable because close to the same amount of CO2 is taken out of the air by other processes. That's the way it's always been.
The problem is, we're not putting lots of extra CO2 into the atmosphere. However, the rest of the Earth didn't get any better at collecting it.
3.87% means that after 30 years, we will have accumulated the total production of the world's CO2 from one year.
This is slow and not catastrophic but that doesn't mean it's safe. |
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| 19 Dec 2012 05:16 PM |
I accidentally a few words and phrases there, but most of it still makes sense.
>The problem is, we're not putting lots of extra CO2 into the atmosphere. However, the rest of the Earth didn't get any better at collecting it.
Should be
>The problem is, we're putting lots of extra CO2 into the atmosphere. However, the rest of the Earth is not getting any better at collecting it. |
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| 19 Dec 2012 05:17 PM |
If talsem is correct, the significance is clear but not too overwhelming to support humans. I mean, we don't asphyxiate in contact with CO2. Right?
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| 19 Dec 2012 05:20 PM |
@mario
So basically OP title? Right?
It also depends where you grew up. A highschool student in the state of New York has to understand the concept of global warming to answer about 3 questions on their Standardized tests.
Same with NJ, VT, CT etc...
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| 19 Dec 2012 05:23 PM |
@yosuppeeps
Global warming, in the sense of current, relatively rapid-paced average global increases in temperature over time, is happening. There is no real debate within the scientific community over this fact.
There is a small amount of controversy surrounding whether humans are affecting this change. It is mostly agreed upon that humans are having a noticeable effect.
The real question is not whether we are responsible, only how much we're responsible for. Warming would probably be happening even if we weren't here, but it may occur at a pace which the Earth would find much easier to adapt to. Rapid change usually occurs along with ecological destruction.
For instance, the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction (death of the dinosaurs) lasted at least hundreds of years.
The largest extinction event in the Earth's history, the Permian extinction, occurred over millions of years. |
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| 19 Dec 2012 05:25 PM |
I did some research.
If you live in Oswego City, Phoenix, Liverpool, or DC then yes, you were tought global warming. This thread has to do more with national education than the topic itself...
*CT does not teach Global W.
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| 19 Dec 2012 05:38 PM |
*VT
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| 19 Dec 2012 06:44 PM |
| Climate change is real and is anthropohenic, 97% of climate scientists agree. |
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| 19 Dec 2012 06:51 PM |
"That's still not something a 10 year old can say but you prove quite a good point. Cheers!"
Umm.... |
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| 19 Dec 2012 06:52 PM |
"Umm...."
I THOUGHT YOU WENT TO BED. |
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| 20 Dec 2012 01:36 PM |
We produce about 3.87% of the world's CO2 gas. I'm not familiar with other greenhouse gases.
This is relatively small, but it is a problem. While other sources of greenhouse gas are effectively recycled and balanced by other processes which have always returned those gas to somewhere else, humans have no counterbalance.
Consequently, this 3% accumulates, while other sources effectively don't.
The reason for this is essentially that all chemicals are in pretty much constant supply on the Earth. It's their location that matters how they affect it.
Warming with CO2 adds it to the atmosphere. CO2 is relatively stable because close to the same amount of CO2 is taken out of the air by other processes. That's the way it's always been.
The problem is, we're not putting lots of extra CO2 into the atmosphere. However, the rest of the Earth didn't get any better at collecting it.
3.87% means that after 30 years, we will have accumulated the total production of the world's CO2 from one year.
This is slow and not catastrophic but that doesn't mean it's safe.
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It is very hard to tell how high affection do humans have on the environment.
I stand by the fact that the earth warms faster in the northern hemisphere which is more industrialized.
But I find your point. |
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