Climate Change

[matthew]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24292615

Are people still going to deny?!

Over 1000 individual scientific experts published this report.

Obviously there are going to be consequences when we continue to cut down rainforests and pump more and more greenhouse gases into the environment. It's just lucky for us in the west that the first affected are poorer African Nations.

 

[Bakero]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24292615

Are people still going to deny?!

Yes. Yes, they are.

 

[daveinprague]

Theres quite a few on NSC who consider that anybody that thinks global warming is down to anything man made is an idiot...

 

[paul & shark]

I maybe in the minority, but i really couldnt give a shit.

 

[GingerBeerMan]

The quicker we inhabit the sun the better.

 

[Husty]

Are people still going to deny?!

Deny what? That it exists or that we're the sole cause of it?

 

[banjo]

If this summers anything to go by bring it on.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Deny what? That it exists or that we're the sole cause of it?

Deny that the dominant reason for global warming since the 1950's is manmade.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I threw away a Coke can this week, it's all my fault. Sorry.

 

[Curious Orange]

Deny that the dominant reason for global warming since the 1950's is manmade.

Come along now, it isn't called "global warming" any more, on account of the lack of warming on a global scale for over a decade now. It's called "climate change" now... which happens irrespective.

 

[dougdeep]

What will be will be.

 

[Gwylan]

Come along now, it isn't called "global warming" any more, on account of the lack of warming on a global scale for over a decade now.

From the IPCC report "The period from 1983-2012 in the Northern Hemisphere was likely the warmest 30-year period of the last 1,400 years. Each of the last three decades has got successively warmer, and these decades have all been warmer than any of the preceding decades since 1850."

 

[ozseagull]

Come along now, it isn't called "global warming" any more, on account of the lack of warming on a global scale for over a decade now. It's called "climate change" now... which happens irrespective.

Approx 15 years of no recorded temperature rise. It's just an excuse to put green tax on everything. A big money making scam.
The planet has been on a continuous temperature roller coaster since it's creation. I'm sure the man made emissions are altering the natural changes slightly but I'm still going with the increased revenues from green tax as the main motivator.

 

[ozseagull]

From the IPCC report "The period from 1983-2012 in the Northern Hemisphere was likely the warmest 30-year period of the last 1,400 years. Each of the last three decades has got successively warmer, and these decades have all been warmer than any of the preceding decades since 1850."

You are truly the king of one sided arguments aren't you. You see what you want to see. Did you ignore the paragraph "It adds that a pause in warming over the past 15 years is too short to reflect long-term trends."

That clearly states that the last 15 has not seen any rise. So curious orange is making a valid and accurate point.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

If this summers anything to go by bring it on.

This is always the misconception with climate change. The reality is more extremes globally. We could experience warmer conditions and also winters like 2010 could become more frequent.
What the bunny huggers don't tell you is that these event cycles have been happening throughout the Earths history. Solar activity has an effect on our weather as does the volume of ice covering the poles.
I'm not denying that us two footers haven't managed to speed up certain processes with our years of burning fossil fuels and destruction of large swathes of life giving forest, but we're not the only cause

 

[Was not Was]

Approx 15 years of no recorded temperature rise. It's just an excuse to put green tax on everything. A big money making scam.
The planet has been on a continuous temperature roller coaster since it's creation. I'm sure the man made emissions are altering the natural changes slightly but I'm still going with the increased revenues from green tax as the main motivator.

*facepalm*

Despite the evidence being clear for donkeys years, it has been nigh on impossible to get governments to act. All the vested interests are stacked in favour of short-term economic gain, and therefore inaction.

 

[Curious Orange]

You are truly the king of one sided arguments aren't you. You see what you want to see. Did you ignore the paragraph "It adds that a pause in warming over the past 15 years is too short to reflect long-term trends."

That clearly states that the last 15 has not seen any rise. So curious orange is making a valid and accurate point.

I am also not saying that human activity does not impact on the climate, the only way it wouldn't is if we didn't exist as a species. We have been seriously affecting our environment since we became farmers.

 

[Was not Was]

You are truly the king of one sided arguments aren't you. You see what you want to see. Did you ignore the paragraph "It adds that a pause in warming over the past 15 years is too short to reflect long-term trends."

That clearly states that the last 15 has not seen any rise. So curious orange is making a valid and accurate point.

Only if s/he thinks statistics is bunk. 15 years ago was 1998, an exceptionally hot year.

If you pick a recent date, you can tell pretty much any story you want; when you look back tens of thousands of years, there's only one story.

 

[Taybha]

Barber out !!

 

[ozseagull]

Only if s/he thinks statistics is bunk. 15 years ago was 1998, an exceptionally hot year.

If you pick a recent date, you can tell pretty much any story you want; when you look back tens of thousands of years, there's only one story.

And what's that then? If you think the planet has been getting hotter since it's inception then I think you need to research it again. There are clear cycles of climate change with temperatures both up and down.