jazzbo Posted March 4, 2006 Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 And, it's the Democrats' fault. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soul Stream Posted March 5, 2006 Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 I'm not sure it's anybody's fault so much as it is human nature. We just don't worry about things until it affects us on a personal level. Usually a day late and a dollar short. When Americans can't grow crops, sea levels rise to the point of flooding coastal cities, ect...then we WILL do something. My fear is that it will happen so much faster than we anticipate. That could be quite scary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted March 5, 2006 Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 Agreed. There should have been a smilie after my pointing finger of blame. I'm with you entirely. Denial at a group level is both a survival tool, and a pathway to destruction I guess. It sure is a modus operandi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soul Stream Posted March 5, 2006 Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 On the other hand, it would be nice to see a firm stance (or any stance) by the Dems. Al Gore IS going around the country with a multi-media presentation on just this subject. Sadly, he seems to be the only one who cares passionately about this issue and nobody's listening to him anyway these days (the post-election lunatic ravings haven't helped the messenger ). Too bad he didn't make it an issue when he was running for freakin' President! Guess their pollsters didn't think it scored high enough with the focus groups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDK Posted March 5, 2006 Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 To make matters worse, one reseracher I recently heard said that even if all emmisions stopped tommorow, that the the current cycle will raise tempatures another degree over the next hundred years before it stabilizes. But overall, I agree with SS. Not to sound defeatist, but one can really only blame human nature. This goes far beyond Bush or Clinton or developing third world countries. One can, I suppose, blame the technological revolution and all the things that came out of it. The world - and human/social evolution - is a complex machine, and for every action is some reaction, often delayed for generations. This is a serious crisis that affects all of humanity, but I'm not sure it was unavoidable. Instead, perhaps, it's more of a "necessary evil" in the overall evoltion of the planet. Hopefully, though, not in the same way that the dinosaurs had to go extinct before the rest of us could develop... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDK Posted March 5, 2006 Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 Ah, crap. I just bummed myself out and I haven't even had breakfast yet.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert J Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 Skiing kind of sucks for us in the Toronto area Though we are taking the kids to Bristol Mountain, NY this March Break and I hope they'll have some decent amounts of white stuff. We leave on Sunday until Wednesday! But here's the Weather forecast And the current conditions at Bristol right now? Temp: 57°F :eye: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Berger Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 Experts say it was hotter 247M years ago, but it also was a great time to photosynthesize. Yet, like the huge meteor striking the Gulf of Mexico that many scientists believe wiped out the dinosaurs, the global warming at the end of the Permian period resulted in deadly amounts of carbon dioxide that killed most land animals, he said. Scientists aren't certain what caused the episode some 247 million years ago. They estimate that temperatures ranged in the low 100s year-round for thousands of years, he said. "Its kind of scary that we don't know for sure what caused the worst catastrophe of life on this planet," he said. The graphite lines, whose significance was recently recognized, are not unique to the caves, which were formed perhaps half a million years ago, he said. Roth is a geologist by training and a former science teacher who has worked as a natural resource specialist at the monument for 17 years. He said the new evidence suggests that "we had a runaway hothouse effect because of the excess carbon dioxide. There was so much carbon dioxide introduced into the atmosphere, mostly from methane from the oceans." That carbon dioxide build-up alone would have killed off most oxygen-breathing species, he said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted April 14, 2006 Report Share Posted April 14, 2006 (edited) This has probably been mentioned already, but the rain we've been getting here in Northern California for the past four months has been breaking all records. Also, I hear they've been getting 300 to 400% more tornados than usual in the midwest. Edited April 15, 2006 by BruceH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Wheel Posted April 14, 2006 Report Share Posted April 14, 2006 This has probably been mentioned already, but the rain we've been getting here in Norther California for the past four months has been breaking all records. Also, I hear they've been getting 300 to 400% more tornados than usual in the midwest. I went into more detail on this in a thread in the political forum, but this is covered in Al Gore's upcoming book and movie. I encourage you to check them out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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