Climate Change Report

[Parkbandit]

Well... you know what they say.
"It's getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes"...
They're just following with the rules. What happens after that is their own fault!

Good to know you are one of those people who subscribe to the notion that the woman asks to get raped by wearing provocative or very little (or no) clothing.

You sicken me.

[Parkbandit]

Climate Change:

1% Man-made, 99% Mother Nature

Yet everyone loses their minds over the 1%

BUT THOSE 1% OWN ALL THE WEALTH WHILE THE 99% ARE STARVING!!!!1111

[Tenlaar]

BUT THOSE 1% OWN ALL THE WEALTH WHILE THE 99% ARE STARVING!!!!1111

Actually, it's the 0.00000001%. Get it right.

[stormcrow]

I love this article. Again, temps are down from where they told us they were going to be. But their "scientific guess" is that they will heat up again. They don't have any real data but since they have been telling everyone how bad this planet is fucked, why stop and try and explain facts. Just tell everyone .. don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain.


http://news.yahoo.com/global-warming...205849334.html

[Johnny Five]

This is what will happen if one more person starts a car.

[Warriorbird]

Climate Change:

1% Man-made, 99% Mother Nature

Yet everyone loses their minds over the 1%

Certainly a scientific and non political take.

[Jeril]

Anything we do that hastens the down fall of humanity is good for THE environment, anything we can do to halt or slow it down is good for OUR environment.

[Johnny Five]

Anything we do that hastens the down fall of humanity is good for THE environment, anything we can do to halt or slow it down is good for OUR environment.

Bazinga!

[Tgo01]

If you think about it those who want to change the way we do things because of global warming are just a bunch of racists.

No, really! Hear me out. Okay so in the early 1900's it was mostly the US and Europe who was industrialized and everyone was enjoying it. Everyone loved their cars and their pollution and their factories and their dirty energy.

Then suddenly China started to industrialize, South America, Central America, Asia, parts of Africa, the Middle East. Now suddenly everyone hates their cars and they hate their pollution and they hate factories and they hate dirty energy. Yet just 40 years ago these things were all great.

So mostly whites enjoying these modern comforts = good
As soon as those dirty non white people started enjoying the same things those same modern comforts = bad.

QED.

[Back]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/20...new-management

Is Planet Earth Under New Management?

by Robert Krulwich/NPR
February 26, 2014 8:03 AM

A hundred million years from now, when we're all dead and gone, a team of geologists will be digging in a field somewhere ...

... and they will discover, buried in the rocks below, a thin layer of sediment — very thin, about the width of a cigarette paper, . That skinny strip, when they look close, will send what's called a "biostratigraphic signal" that something enormous happened back in our era, something life-changing, planet-reorganizing, even Earth-shaping. The evidence, when they look closely, will be visible in that same skinny layer all over the world. In her , The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert describes what they'll find.

For starters, Kolbert says, below this layer, geologists will see fossil remnants of all kinds of large animals: elephants, buffalo, rhinos, lions, tigers, whales, giant turtles (and deeper down, even earlier — saber-toothed tigers, mammoths and giant sloths). Their big bones will litter those older rocks. But above this layer — after our era — they disappear. Something killed off Earth's megafauna.

During this same time, they will discover that animals and plants that used to be in one place — gingko trees in China, tulips in Asia, starlings in Europe — suddenly moved all over the world. Grasses found on one continent now strangely appear on four continents. Flowering plants, rats, goats, pigeons, kudzu, ants, inexplicably spread their territories across enormous oceans, climates, time zones. Specific life forms — chickens, cattle, roses, wheat, rice — turn up everywhere. Something moved them, though they may not know who or how. ...

Also at this time, bits of air trapped in the rock will show that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere jumped sharply — to about 500 parts per million, higher than at any other point in the previous 800,000 years. So in this era, the chemical composition of the atmosphere changed, and changed very suddenly. ...

And down in the soil where supplies of nitrogen had been relatively rare, coming from existing populations of plants and animals — something changed, too. Out of nowhere, tons and tons of extra nitrogen appear. The supply jumps feverishly — feeding plants as never before. What happened?

Digging on six continents, geologists will discover that almost all of the Earth's major rivers, instead of winding and meandering across the planet's surface, were altered — blocked, re-routed or straightened. In some cases those rivers were dammed and pointed to new destinations. Enormous lakes were starved of water, and disappeared.

And surveying the continents, they will discover that the land on Earth that's free of ice had been significantly altered (yes, half) to provide space for crops, reservoirs, mining, logging, quarrying, housing, commerce or transportation. Wild spaces continued to exist, of course, mostly as rain forests, deserts, tundra and the higher mountain ranges, but they were a smaller and smaller proportion of the planet, sometimes crisscrossed by pipelines and affected by climate change. The densely built spaces, meanwhile ...