Global warming "past the point of no return".

Cyrus · Intermediate Crude Joined: Jan 25, 2005 Posts: 608

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article312997.ece Sad

Ebyss

This stuff frightens me so much.
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Nah, we're fine. What do those climatologists know anyway. Global warming is a myth. Rolling Eyes

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Specop_007 · Expert Joined: Aug 12, 2004 Posts: 6102

Good. I hate shovelling snow from my driveway.
Downside though, I do like to go play in the snowy fields with the 4WD.... Well, lets hope for lots of rain anyways.
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A very disturbing story---one of the scariest I've read. I feel sorry for the polar bears and all the other ice-dependent Arctic species that will soon be extinct. I'm not sure I feel as sorry for the human race, which in due course will follow them into oblivion.
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Past the point
of no return -
no backward glances:
the games we've played
till now are at
an end . . .
Past all thought
of "if" or "when" -
no use resisting:
abandon thought,
and let the dream
descend . . .
What raging fire
shall flood the soul?
What rich desire
unlocks its door?
What sweet seduction
lies before
us . . .?
Past the point
of no return,
the final threshold -
what warm,
unspoken secrets
will we learn?
Beyond the point
of no return . . .

Oh wait, we're talking about global warming...

I personally don't think we have enough fossil fuels to cause runaway global warming, that is, unless we decide to burn everything we have left. (Which is certainly possible).

But a very interesting link none the less.
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Cyrus · Intermediate Crude Joined: Jan 25, 2005 Posts: 608

Tyler, we're humans. Remember? Very Happy

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Specop_007 · Expert Joined: Aug 12, 2004 Posts: 6102

I think the whole issue of global warming is grossly overstated. Making a mountain out of a molehill as it were.
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MicroHydro · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Apr 10, 2005 Posts: 1286

The gross signs of a runaway greenhouse are now visible from orbit, but the point of no return was passed a long time ago. In all likelihood, the 1970s were the last opportunity to stabilize climate. By the 1980s the warming trend was already well established. But the world had other priorities.
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