Climate change / global warming

[Posts: 1828Joined: 03 Jan 2004, 19:43Location: north west]

Any on here have any strong views on global warming?<br>A part of me suspects that the scare stories we are constantly fed is just alarmist hyperbole pushed by interested parties to ensure their funding continues.<br>Is that too cynical?<br>Wasn't there some Scandinavian bod who recently had a best-seller published poo-pooing the alarmists?<br>Is time running out to try a polar-bear burger?

[Posts: 4240Joined: 13 Jun 2002, 17:01Location: London/Scarborough]

I find it a fascinating topic and there have been some pictorially alarmist documentaries about the melting of the flat caps quite recently.

There is far less sunlight reaching the planet due to aicraft and factory emissions plus that thing you spray about the house to get rid of dog leg.

 Since the 1950's to the mid 90's the planet has measured a reduction in sunlight and accompanying heat of 3% a decade. The effect is known as [i]global dimming[/i] and since the clean air acts and the reduction of dirty plant around the world it has lessened, which has added to the warming effect, however it is on the march again - but a lot of the world casually ignores it. The smog we produce is keeping us darker and cooler but it is a false god and shouldn't be relied upon to.

    On the days after 911 when aircraft were grounded one weather scientist recorded a one degree raise in temperature purely due to vapour clearer skies over America. Global warming which which is mainly caused by CO2 emissions is reduced by global dimming which is an unnatural effect, but has only recently been factored in by certain scientific groups and poo pood by the big boys.

  Once the flashpoint occurs, and temperatures start rising exponentially there is no turning back and it is rather akin a nuclear chain reaction. So they say !

   Apart from global warming there is the worrying movements of the twelve tectonic plates around the world. If Lanzarote does sheer off as some speculate sea levels would rise three feet around our southern shores. On the other hand it could be a hundred years away or never happen. Remember they got that hurricane wrong !

   I am suffering a flu bug and feeling exceptionally warm around the collar. By the time the world governemnt gets a grip it could well be too late.

flatcapgamble.. damn the edit :angry:

(Edited by gamble at 6:00 pm on Jan. 30, 2005)

[Posts: 4754Joined: 07 Oct 2002, 11:50Location: Scotland]

Very true gamble,

I believe that man's part in global warming is well over stated. It is probably more to do with volcanic emissions than those from cars ...

[Posts: 4754Joined: 07 Oct 2002, 11:50Location: Scotland]

Count me in ... :biggrin:

I was thinking on the big volcano that went off in Washington State a few years ago. (St. Helens)

[Posts: 619Joined: 20 Jun 2001, 18:42]

Personally I'd be quite grateful for a spot of global warming. A rise in temperature around these parts wouldn't go amiss.

[Posts: 4754Joined: 07 Oct 2002, 11:50Location: Scotland]

I also think that the effects of Global Warming will happen very quickly. Maybe over a period of two or three years, because changes will have a knock on effect and be exponential.

[Posts: 4240Joined: 13 Jun 2002, 17:01Location: London/Scarborough]

Something very big is going down in 2008<br> It's a recurring thought pattern<br> Problem is I have absolutely no idea what it is<br> just that its big.<br> I haven't ruled out something in my life

Possibly meet you then Dave on cloud 9 <br>  

* Aerosols that mask dog leg produce CO2 and have<br>    no effect on global dimming as I stated earlier.  

[Posts: 3751Joined: 15 Feb 2001, 20:58Location: UK]

Might be time to 'haul ass' out of Norfolk....:cool:

[Posts: 4754Joined: 07 Oct 2002, 11:50Location: Scotland]

In the Congo, a huge forest in Africa, the highlands break into open savannah. Ecologists had always thought that savannah was the result of humn activity until this place was discovered, about ten years ago. This particular grassland is remote and there are no people live there, or near it. On further investigation they discovered that the difference in rainfall was a two month shorter rainy season in the grassland than there was in the jungle. This is also true in parts of the amazon and northern australia.

If rain the pattern changes in these areas, on the equator, then these forests would dry out and burn. A probable explanation for global warming in the past?

2008 gamble ... I've nothing planned

[Posts: 4240Joined: 13 Jun 2002, 17:01Location: London/Scarborough]

[quote]Quote: from dave jay on 10:13 pm on Feb. 2, 2005[br]

Ecologists had always thought that savannah was the result of humn activity until this place was discovered, about ten years ago.[/quote]<br>  The wild congo bee unlike its much smaller european brother has a buzz to frighten an elephant and wears small leather boots to clear a path.

[Posts: 4754Joined: 07 Oct 2002, 11:50Location: Scotland]

Interesting G ... I didn't know they had bees there.

[Posts: 4754Joined: 07 Oct 2002, 11:50Location: Scotland]

All the time I was worrying about the world ending and about how I might escaoe the inevitable ...

The missis was sleeping ...