Posted on 03/26/2006 10:03:47 AM PST by bnelson44
No one can say exactly what it looks like when a planet takes ill, but it probably looks a lot like Earth.
Never mind what you've heard about global warming as a slow-motion emergency that would take decades to play out. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the crisis is upon us.
From heat waves to storms to floods to fires to massive glacial melts, the global climate seems to be crashing around us.
The problem -- as scientists suspected but few others appreciated -- is that global climate systems are booby-trapped with tipping points and feedback loops, thresholds past which the slow creep of environmental decay gives way to sudden and self-perpetuating collapse. That's just what's happening now.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
EEK EEK THE SKY IS FALLING THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!
No "Barf Alert"?
Let me guess the remedy, elect Democrats, lots and lots of Democrats to keep the world from ending.
Some surprise.
The other day I saw that the highest temp ever recorded in my area was in 1894. I wonder if those poor schmucks had any idea that they were gonna die?
We are on a giant sphere of molten iron zipping through space at an ungodly speed around a huge ball of burning hydrogen.
What could possibly go wrong?
APf
Millions of illegals roam our streets, our borders are wide open and we have a death cult that wants to wipe us off the planet, yet the MSM deems this THE threat to concern ourselves with. Twits.
Don't move. Be very, very still...
So, basically, we'll be in trouble the day before the day after tomorrow.
This is what this garbage hit piece ought to be titled. Having only been able to measure our contribution to greenhouse emissions for the past 20 years and to conclude that our less than 10 % contribution is what has taken us to the point of supposed global warming is a purely alarmist view that is very much lacking in solid evidence.
The unknowns and the order of magnitude for trend analysis are so vast and yet they speak with certainty. Antarctica grows on one side and retreats on the other but all we hear about is the retreating side and claim man has done it even though we have never been there before to witness this happen before.
I resent these liars using little bits of truth to scare the world into socialism and greater government control over all things.
And no, to you idiots who will invent that this means I support pollution and no advancement in being green you are wrong...but then again its not me holding up building clean nuclear plants...its you lying idiots who insist that we not have nukes and thus we rely on coal and oil. Way to go liberalism!!!
Hang yourselves... NOW!
In the 70's it was the new ice age.
Many, many moons ago. When I was in my 20s. I was walking and talking with a friend when he said that. My foot was about to step on a diamond back rattlesnake at the time.....
This stuff has never happened on Earth before. We're so doomed!
;-)
If the global climate changes of the past weren't caused by human activity, why are we supposed to take as gospel that the latest round of change is our fault?
Could it be to - gee, I don't know - destroy capitalism?
"So much environmental collapse has at last awakened much of the world, particularly the 141 nations that have ratified the Kyoto treaty to reduce emissions. "
Gee, no need to mention that the countries producing among the greatest emissions are exempt, or that many of the nations who signed on aren't complying...NOOOO, it's the good ole US of A which is singlehandedly pushing us toward armageddon.
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