Adding Reply Archived Topic: It will not be bumped to the top of the forum. Topic Anyone Worried ?! Membername   Not a member? Sign Up Free (takes 20 seconds) Password   Forgotten your password? Post Font: Verdana Arial Black Georgia Comic Sans Impact   Size: Tiny Normal Big Huge   Color: Default Dark Red Red Orange Brown Green Olive Cyan Blue Dark Blue Indigo Black [ Check Spelling ] [ Post Preview ] [ LiveTags ] FAQ Keyword Search: Post Options Favorites Manager Notify me of new replies to this topic by email Notify me of new replies to this topic by private message Original Post PunK R0cKeR Posted at 8:04 am on Jan. 18, 2007 First i would like to apologise if there has already been a topic on this before. I would just like to ask if anyone is worried about global warming or even aware how fast it is progressing? I'm interested about it myself and saw on the news the other day that part of an island near New Zealand had been flooded due to global warming and the melting ice caps. If anyone else is interested about it i recommend watching 'An Inconvenient Truth' its a documentary about global warming and explains wots happening today and wot WILL happen in the future. Plus the seasons are all fucked up (pardon my francais) Wot do u guys think about this issue? x

Replies flatplat Posted at 9:24 pm on Feb. 3, 2007 ^^^ Thanks mate, cheers. I'll have to look into that one. Sounds like a plausable reason for part of the temperature rise at least. holysaiyan1 Posted at 6:41 pm on Feb. 3, 2007 To be perfectly fair, we don't have measurements for Pluto for one of its years (273 Earth years, if I'm correct), so yes, you are correct. The links work for me on two different computers, perhaps it's just you.  Dunno.  Anyway, the gist of the Jupiter article is that Jupiter has warmed up slightly, which has caused Jupiter to lose two of its major perpetual storms that were in its atmosphere. The article about the Sun said that NASA announced that since the 1970s, the amount of solar radiation emitted has increased by 0.05% per decade.  It said this interesting tidbit: "This trend is important because, if sustained over many decades, it could cause significant climate change," said Richard Willson, a researcher affiliated with NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University's Earth Institute, New York. He is the lead author of the study recently published in Geophysical Research Letters. "Historical records of solar activity indicate that solar radiation has been increasing since the late 19th century. If a trend, comparable to the one found in this study, persisted throughout the 20th century, it would have provided a significant component of the global warming the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports to have occurred over the past 100 years," he said. So what you attribute to an industrial revolution starting in only a handful of countries can also (and probably more scientifically plausibly) attributed to a global increase in received solar radiation during that same period of time.  Jus' saying   flatplat Posted at 11:03 pm on Feb. 2, 2007 holysaiyan1 mate, two of your links are broke - the Jupiter and sun ones. The others are pretty interesting though, but I know for certain that warming on Pluto isn't linked to what's happening on Earth. Its due to axis change and it's funny orbit. (Its in the article   ) Any your right, If we were heating up like Triton, we would be boned. I hadn't heard of the climate change there before -  you learn something new everyday. As for where I sit on the issue of Global Warming, I'm on the worried side. Australia's weather over the past few years has been really fucked up and we can't seem to be able to blame it on phenomina like El Nino. The most damning evidence for a man made cause of most Global Warming comes from ice core samples from Antarctica. These samples show that concentrations of CO2 are in their highest point in 650,000 years. It's hard to blame that on the Earths natural cycles between ice ages - an interglacial cycle lasts about 150,000 years. This rise in CO2 seems to carrelate with the start of the industrial age. Coincidence? Autumn624 Posted at 12:52 pm on Feb. 2, 2007 I actually don't believe in 'global warming'..My 6th grade schoolteacher gave me this large packet with reasons why global warming doesn't exist, and prrof that it was just a hoax... So I float along without worrying about it for the most part! holysaiyan1 Posted at 10:27 am on Feb. 2, 2007 Weird weather changes are taking place on some of the other planets in the solar system as well. Mars appears to be entering a phase of warming, as well. Jupiter has lost 2 of its 3 formerly perpetual White Oval storms to climatic change. If the Earth was experiencing climate change at the same rate as Neptune's moon Triton, we'd be majorly boned. Pluto's temperature has tripled in the last 14 years, and its air pressure is rising as well. The possible cause for this cosmic crisis?  The sun is emitting more energy than usual. Chava Posted at 7:52 am on Feb. 2, 2007 Nope we'll adapt. CatPower Posted at 2:22 pm on Jan. 30, 2007 Quote: from groovygirl at 5:07 pm on Jan. 18, 2007 Perosnally Im not worried because I'd probably be dead before anything bad really happens. But I do think its a major issue and people should care more than they actually do. Is it right that we are heading for another ice age? Yes. If the Grenland-ice melts the Gulf streems will stop, and it will become colder and colder. Ice ages can actually come pretty fast too. The assumption is 10-20 years. ajm51987 Posted at 1:05 pm on Jan. 27, 2007 It's really sad because we could still have an efficient (if just not smaller) economy that would help to reduce global warming and it could be easily implemented within 10-15 years. norock Posted at 12:29 pm on Jan. 27, 2007 Quote: from gitrdone at 8:07 am on Jan. 18, 2007 i'm really worried about it. if we dont take care of our environment it's going to get worse and worse for our children and our children's children. i believe we are already at the point of no return... we need to stop trying to patch the "boo boo"s of the situation. [merely prolonging the inevitable] we need to find a FIX for the problem. lowering emmissions and polluting less will only delay what will eventually happen.. we need to [somehow] rebuild and reeforce the Ozone.. otherwise, theres really nothing we CAN do. cherfan2 Posted at 12:11 pm on Jan. 27, 2007 ok listen up. global warming is natural, whoever said governments should take action obviously know absoultely nothing. humans have no impact on the rising temperatures. the reason temperatures are going up is because right now the sun is the hottest its ever been for the longest period. by 2012, the sun will have expended all the engery and we will go into a global cooling phase that can last anywhere from 50-200 years while the sun stores its energy for the next warming trend. people, please stop listening to the media tellign u that HUMANS are the reasons for global warming. there is no sceintific evidence that says C02 emissions are the cause for global warming. if anyone cares, the ice caps on Mars are melting now too....humans or the sun? you decide. PunK R0cKeR Posted at 8:20 am on Jan. 18, 2007 here is the news link about the flooding of this island http://www.itv.com/news/bigmelt_fc0b3f21ca3b6c876737eb91dd9a3588.html 1st victims of global warming PunK R0cKeR Posted at 8:15 am on Jan. 18, 2007 Quote: from ilovedanielsmith at 4:13 pm on Jan. 18, 2007 im movin to a hot country but will still worry lol it will get hot everywhere before the ice age Bomb Posted at 8:14 am on Jan. 18, 2007 Killing iraqis>global warming ilovedanielsmith Posted at 8:13 am on Jan. 18, 2007 im movin to a hot country but will still worry PunK R0cKeR Posted at 8:11 am on Jan. 18, 2007 Quote: from gitrdone at 4:07 pm on Jan. 18, 2007 i'm really worried about it. if we dont take care of our environment it's going to get worse and worse for our children and our children's children. I know yea! wot makes it worse is that governments dont seem to be doin anything majorly about it ( if that makes sense) there more worried about this fucking war in iraq than global warming which is probably the bigger threat Most recent 15 of 24 previous replies displayed.