Climate Change Report

[Parkbandit]

So I bought a new car, I really wanted the hybrid (not that a give a shit about being green, but saving green I'm down for) but 16k more for the hybrid. Now let me do the math here. I use roughly 5 gallons of gas a week, the standard combustion engine was rated at 35mpg and the hybrid was rated at 50 mpg. That's about 7 dollars savings per week, times 52 weeks = 43 years to make back that 16k. Back to the drawing board bitches.

You can't put a price tag on saving the entire human race.

[Laviticas]

You can't put a price tag on saving the entire human race.

Oh yes I can. I would be dead broke paying that much for a car.

[Parkbandit]

"Hey, did you hear that astronomers found a new planet orbiting that star over there?"
"Oh, really? That's neat."

"Hey, did you hear climatologists have noticed that human activity is causing global warming and if we don't immediately start charging twice as much for electricity, gas and oil we will all turn to cannibalism to survive?"
"FUCK THOSE PSYCHO LEFT FAGGOT FUCKS! GET OFF MY FUCKING LAWN!"

Corrected for accuracy.

[Parkbandit]

Oh yes I can. I would be dead broke paying that much for a car.

Flat earth, environment hater. You only think about yourself.

[Thondalar]

Here's an older example from a conservative:

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/b...the_world.html

Somewhat newer:

http://www.npr.org/2013/10/20/238548...cooler-climate

There's a fair bit of stuff out there.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...ogies/4041931/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_engineering

This is the stuff I'm afraid of. Perfect, shining examples of our hubris getting ahead of our common sense. How many times throughout history have humans thought they knew what was going on, only to find out later they really had no clue? We've yet to show that we can effectively handle unintended consequences in sociology and politics, but have no qualms about making decisions that affect the entire planet? The results can only be disastrous.

[Parkbandit]

This is the stuff I'm afraid of. Perfect, shining examples of our hubris getting ahead of our common sense. How many times throughout history have humans thought they knew what was going on, only to find out later they really had no clue? We've yet to show that we can effectively handle unintended consequences in sociology and politics, but have no qualms about making decisions that affect the entire planet? The results can only be disastrous.

BUT WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING! IF NOT FOR US.. FOR THE CHILDREN!!

[Thondalar]

It states very clearly that the current damage is irreversible on the scale of a human lifetime,

I'm starting to believe a lot of your problems are rooted in poor reading comprehension skills. Let me link it for you again so you can read it slowly...I'll even bold the specifics for you:

If emissions of CO2 stopped altogether, it would take many thousands of years for atmospheric CO2 to return to ‘pre-industrial’ levels due to its very slow transfer to the deep ocean and ultimate burial in ocean sediments. Surface temperatures would stay elevated for at least a thousand years, implying extremely long-term commitment to a warmer planet due to past and current emissions, and sea level would likely continue to rise for many centuries even after temperature stopped increasing. Significant cooling would be required to reverse melting of glaciers and the Greenland ice sheet, which formed during past cold climates. The current C02-induced warming of Earth is therefore essentially irreversible
on human timescales.

[Tgo01]

I linked some.

Here's an older example from a conservative:

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/b...the_world.html

Somewhat newer:

http://www.npr.org/2013/10/20/238548...cooler-climate

Sorry I should have specified...something currently realistic and not something you would find on the SyFy channel.

There's a fair bit of stuff out there.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...ogies/4041931/

What will it take to fix global warming? Scientists say the world, within a few decades, will need to switch to energy that doesn't emit greenhouse gases.

Heck, is that all?!

[waywardgs]

Lol, wayward thinks they are "looking" through a telescope at those distant planets that are light years away. It's no wonder folks like you fall for doom and gloom models of death.

Wayward there is a difference between discovering new planets and using computer models based on numbers that don't even calculate when your looking at billions of years of climate history. That shit isn't even science, it's guessing.

I just didn't want to spin your head with the concept of planets causing wobble in a star's orbit. You don't seem to understand this shit, why would I think you'd understand anything else?

[Warriorbird]

Sorry I should have specified...something currently realistic and not something you would find on the SyFy channel.

Heck, is that all?!

It's shocking that a Republican is being anti science. We've never heard that before.

Having our country not pathetically reliant on fossil fuels would benefit us in many ways. We could let the Middle East kill itself and not give a damn.