[blam]

"climate change is soon likely to exceed anything the planet has seen "in the last million years"

Did they forget that the worlds oceans rose from 300-500 feet only 15,000 years ago.

[michigander]

Melting Ice 'Will Swamp Capitals'

And the down side to this is?...

[Redcloak]

Personally, I'm more worried about the effects of flying monkey flatulence on the environment. Sure, everyone talks about flying monkey farts, but does anyone ever do anything about them?

[U S Army EOD]

I am really apalled how you people can not take this serious and continue to joke about it. We really need to plan now in case this does happen.

First of all, for safety's sake, lets move the UN to Tibet next week.

[willyboyishere]

apres moi le deluge........
(which is probably what inspired this whole global warming/environmental doomsday crap.

[Jackson Brown]

More pure BS form the doom and gloom -- global warming --entrepreneurs

Snippet from article below --

According to John Carlisle, director of the environmental policy task force of the National Center for Public Policy Research, "the advance of the Antarctic and Greenland glaciers, which contain more than 90 percent of the world's glacial ice, completely contradicts previous predictions that warming would cause these glaciers to retreat." "

Far from providing scientific proof of global warming," he notes, "the behavior of glaciers represents yet another powerful indictment of the already-controversial global warming theory." Carlisle concedes that proponents of global warming theory are not lying outright when they warn of glacial melting. Some melting of the Earth's mid-latitude glaciers is in fact taking place.

But those glaciers represent only 6 percent of the planet's total ice mass. In the remaining 94 percent, represented by the Antarctic [which is ALSO growing] and Greenland, the ice sheets are expanding. The West Greenland Ice Sheet, the largest mass of polar ice in the Northern Hemisphere, has thickened by up to seven feet since 1980.

http://www.heartland.org/archives/environment/may99/melting.htm

Here is a google search link with many other articles on how Greenland glaciers are GROWING, not shrinking.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Greenland+glaciers+expanding&btnG=Google+Search

[ChemistCat]

They need to take this up with the sun. The sun's variations heterodyne with the Earth's own fossil heat to produce far more wide-ranging climate change than we could manage, even if we did the best we could to change it.

But of course, these people think that governments are onmnpotent, so if evil bad things happen to any human or animal anywhere, it's because government refused to act in time.

[Normal4me]

Woo Hoo!! I am 31 feet above sea level. I am beach front just a waiting to happen!

[Jim Noble]

Here's what the world has seen for the past 450 000 years:

All these global warming lies are getting so OLD.

[Capitalist Eric]

You know, anybody with more than three grey-cells that can fire together, will look at this "report," and immediately disregard the findings.

Consider, if you will, statistical theory. I can prove, using multiple regression analysis, that churches cause crime, and that hospitals are death-traps. Because you see, Churches and ministers go where they're needed. And more people die in hospitals than anywhere else...

Of course, both conclusions have one small problem- the fail the "sniff-test."

This report also fails the sniff-test... And the history test.

[crz]

That means that all that garbage that is laying around on the streets of the UK will float out to sea. Those who live in glass houses.. I cant quite get over how much trash is simply thrown out and left by the Brits in their country. The worst is in Scotland where in a lot of places you couldnt walk anyalong without stepping on garbage. Just get off the main roads and take a look. Then the question of dumping raw sewage into the ocean. Take a trip along the shores into some of these villages and note the sewer lines that run into the sea. And dont walk on the shores along there as you'll step on someones dinner from the night before. I cant imagine what it looks like on the continent.

[inquest]

bump for later

[Clock King]

Hmmm. Since the oceans have been around for what? About 1.1 billion years, I guess this doesn't mean squat.

[M Kehoe]

concludes a new official report...The report, by a German government body,...

OK, that does it, I'm headin' for the hills.

If the weather person on TV can't predict the weather 5 days from now accurrately, how can these yahoos predict the weather 25 years from now accurately?

Answer: they can't. All they have is a S.W.A.G and a socialistic/communistic agenda.

5.56mm

[Tribune7]

Michael Crichton addresses the horrors of global warming and other enviro bugaboos petty well on this thread.

[syriacus]

Wow. Global warming sounds like a "done" deal. The Earth will be cooked to a "well-done" stage, rather than a "medium-done" one. [/sarcasm]

It's going to be an expensive problem and adapting to it would probably be cheaper, in the long run, than attempting to stop it and (most likely) having to adapt to it anyway.

Governments should spend their money on positive steps, at the point when they really know what effects the warming will have.(If it has any.)

[auboy]

Bump

[Let's Roll]

Even if they are right and the seas will rise due to global warming, how do they explain what warmed and cooled the earth all those times before man burned fossil fuels?

Solar activity is the only answer and if they know how to control that, they will finally have my attention. The last couple of days have seen a flurry of global warming scare stories in the press. Trying to counter Russia's opting or pending opting out of Kyoto.

Their lemming like obsession with bad science as in blaming carbon dioxide for climate changes - the same carbon dioxide that we exhale and plants inhale really is unbelievable.

[etcetera]

"The report, written by eight leading German professors..."

Probably Von Daneken supporters...

[3catsanadog]

. . . . . inundating central London and many of the world's biggest cities,. . .

Will it hit Pittsburgh?!?

[StopGlobalWhining]

Horrors - We're all going to die!

This past Wednesday I attended a public discussion with noted Penn State geologist Richard Alley, one of the recognized experts on global climate change, specializing on the Greenland and Antarctic ice caps.

An audience member asked how much effect the Kyoto Protocol would have on earth's climate if it was enforced. Alley was honest in replying "not much".

But then he added that when the federal income tax started out at 1% or whatever it was in the beginning, nobody believed it would remain at that low rate very long, the important thing was just getting it into law.

He used that analogy to defend the ratification of Kyoto. And now they want a 60% reduction by 2050? Dream on.