Climate Change Report

[Thondalar]

Continue not to worry, conspiracy theory-loving conservatives! The hottest May in recorded human history was followed-up by the hottest June in recorded human history, but it's still just a vast liberal conspiracy.

Key words there are recorded human history.

That's only a small fraction of the total history. Can you prove that global warming isn't saving us from the Ice Age that all climatologists agree we should be in (or at least very close to), right now? How devastating would it be if half of our currently inhabitable land was covered with ice? I'm guessing about the same as if half of it was covered with water.

Solid or a liquid, that damn water is gonna get us either way. I think we should start filling rocket ships with water and shooting it into space.

[Warriorbird]

Key words there are recorded human history.

That's only a small fraction of the total history. Can you prove that global warming isn't saving us from the Ice Age that all climatologists agree we should be in (or at least very close to), right now? How devastating would it be if half of our currently inhabitable land was covered with ice? I'm guessing about the same as if half of it was covered with water.

Solid or a liquid, that damn water is gonna get us either way. I think we should start filling rocket ships with water and shooting it into space.

This would be a cool argument if all climatologists had actually agreed on that.

[Taernath]

Can you prove that global warming isn't saving us from the Ice Age that all climatologists agree we should be in (or at least very close to), right now?

Uh, we are in an ice age. I'd really like to see these climatologists that are arguing we aren't.

[waywardgs]

Uh, we are in an ice age. I'd really like to see these climatologists that are arguing we aren't.

Whatever. You're just saying that because Chicago was chilly last winter.

[Tgo01]

Whatever. You're just saying that because Chicago was chilly last winter.

:/

Hottest month in human recorded history = "OMG!@ Hoomans are destroying the world! The polar ice caps are melting tooooooo fast!"
Coldest winter in human recorded history = "Meh, it was chilly this past winter."

[Warriorbird]

:/

Hottest month in human recorded history = "OMG!@ Hoomans are destroying the world! The polar ice caps are melting tooooooo fast!"
Coldest winter in human recorded history = "Meh, it was chilly this past winter."

And Rome burned.

[Tgo01]

And Rome burned.

So you're saying climate change killed off Rome too?!

Man, humans have been fucking up the Earth for a long time now. How many factories did we have back then?

[Warriorbird]

So you're saying climate change killed off Rome too?!

Man, humans have been fucking up the Earth for a long time now. How many factories did we have back then?

From a factual perspective, the coal burning could actually produce smog in Roman times. There were more people in the Empire than one would think.

If you want to stuff your fingers in your ears about the idea that we could effect the climate, that's fine too. You're in the party with the evolution deniers and the people who believe the Earth is 4000 years old. You fit right in man. Play on Nero.

[Laviticas]

Yea, if you don't agree, you belong in the line of kids who didn't get picked. So there!

[Tgo01]

If you want to stuff your fingers in your ears about the idea that we could effect the climate, that's fine too.

I just want people to be realistic about this shit. For fuck's sake, I was reading the other day about a giant sinkhole opening up in...I dunno, wasn't the US so who cares? And what was one of the theories people suggested? Global warming was to blame!

Global warming is to blame for everything! Global warming shot my father.

Hottest month in recorded history? Going back to when, exactly? 1880 something? Like we had good instruments back then and we had a reliable way to test ocean temperatures back then? Reminds me of the article I read once that said we are seeing a record number of hurricanes in the entire world and what was to blame? Global warming. Never mind the fact that we have much better technology now than we did 100 years ago and can see more hurricanes in the middle of the ocean, we can see them now therefore it's global warming!

John Christy, a "Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville" and "was appointed Alabama's state climatologist in 2000", says "The temperature records cannot be relied on as indicators of global change" because he believes many of these stations have been compromised for various reasons.

Also for once I would love to read a report from a climatologist telling us exactly what we have to do in order to save the world. We're on page 128 of this thread now, has such a report ever been linked to? Instead it's always the same thing "Man bad. Man destroy planet. Man must be stopped." That's it. Where are the specifics? Do we have to reduce carbon emissions by one fourth? By one half? By three fourths? By when? Do we have until the year 2100? 2050? 2020?

You're in the party with the evolution deniers and the people who believe the Earth is 4000 years old.

You're beyond silly if you think there are no Democrats who believe in creationism.