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Arctic Sea Ice Melts Faster Than Thought

This topic was also discussed vigorously in Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth", which I'd recommend everyone to see...

No one is disputing that global warming is taking place but (contrary to popular belief) many scientists still wonder if humans are responsible for it.

I am sure humans are not doing the planet any good at all. But, if man was not on the planet, there would still be global warming as in the past.

I cannot wait until Norway and Canada lob missiles at one another over the Arctic islands.

Global warming makes life more interesting.

The thing is, we're (humans) speeding up the process ten-fold, practically unneccessarily. The technology is here to where the CO2 output should be much much less..yet we choose to live lazily and ignore the signs. Dont get me wrong, im not one of those environmental freaks and this topic is not AS serious to me as I make it seem, but it annoys me to know that we're practically ruining our home almost willingly.

Inconvenient truth has so many inaccuracies that it is worth not viewing.

One biggie is he claims that GW BOTH increases hurricanes and drought over Africa

Derek Ortt wrote:Inconvenient truth has so many inaccuracies that it is worth not viewing.

One biggie is he claims that GW BOTH increases hurricanes and drought over Africa

West Africa's drought has increased since the early 90's. So has hurricane activity.

But Gore's biggest point was strength of the hurricanes that form. How is the West Africa drought going to prevent Hurricane X from becoming a Cat 5 off the coast of Houston?

Even many skeptics who've viewed the film say there are very few things they'd call blatantly inaccurate. Mostly, they just disagree on some of the data interpretation.

I've only seen a couple of articles point out huge lies. In each case, the "lies" were fabricated by someone who hadn't even watched the film.

A recent study suggested that GW could result in increased shear over the Tropical Atlantic which could result in fewer and weaker storms while Pacific activity would increase so take your pick.

Steve

Too late to worry about it now...And I agree we don't do the planet any good... Were just a highly evolved parasite...Maybe nature is tring to correct this...

The Global Warming proponents probably figure even if the current warming is just a long term trend that will reverse itself in 20 years, why not use it as an excuse to improve quality of life on earth?

Improving air quality by reducing emissions and creating safer communities in hurricane prone areas could be a lucrative venture. Reducing world oil consumption would also remove much of the global tension we are seeing over energy resources.

You got that right. Air and water quality should be a world top priority. It is a shame what cars, factories, etc. send out into the air we breathe. We already have proof fish, etc. are dying from contaminated waters. Just these two areas would benefit everything into the future.

abajan wrote:No one is disputing that global warming is taking place but (contrary to popular belief) many scientists still wonder if humans are responsible for it.

I tend to agree with you....IMHO, it's cyclical. We don't have much evidence of these cycles such as it where....the oldest tree ring study only goes back 2000 years, what about 5000-10000 yrs. ago?

feederband wrote:Too late to worry about it now...And I agree we don't do the planet any good... Were just a highly evolved parasite...Maybe nature is tring to correct this...

Pardon me, but you're not looking so highly evolved lately.

feederband wrote:Too late to worry about it now...And I agree we don't do the planet any good... Were just a highly evolved parasite...Maybe nature is tring to correct this...

Nature will always correct an imbalance sooner or later, IMO. Whether thats good for any particular species (including us) is another matter altogether.

abajan wrote:

feederband wrote:Too late to worry about it now...And I agree we don't do the planet any good... Were just a highly evolved parasite...Maybe nature is tring to correct this...

Pardon me, but you're not looking so highly evolved lately.

Yeah I'm trying to de-evolve..

feederband wrote:
Yeah I'm trying to de-evolve..

Are we not men? We are DEVO!

feederband wrote:Too late to worry about it now...And I agree we don't do the planet any good... Were just a highly evolved parasite...Maybe nature is tring to correct this...

Your giving us to much credit. We are not parasitic. We are saprophytes. The earth in itself is a living organism. See the Gaea theory. As homo sapiens we contribute nothing. We exist on dead organic matter.

Derek Ortt wrote:Inconvenient truth has so many inaccuracies that it is worth not viewing.

One biggie is he claims that GW BOTH increases hurricanes and drought over Africa

Millions of people and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences seem to disagree with you.

It seems to me that Bush supporters disagree with GW while Bush haters agree with GW. I'm in the second group.

Sorry people,but I just do not give in to GW.The Earth changes from hot to cold and ect...Look at Mars its getting warmer also but some how people want to blame Bush for that also.When the Dino's were here they were not driving SUVs.OR were they???????????????????????