Polar Ice Sheets to COLLAPSE!!!

Discussion in 'Global Warming' started by skip, Jun 19, 2007.

  1. skip

    skip Founder Administrator

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    Read this and weep for your planet...

    http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article2675747.ece

    Forget the UN panel's report. This update from the world's most respected climatologists claims the UN vastly underestimated the effects of global warming on the world's ice sheets.

    They say the ice sheets could completely collapse in a matter of decades, not centuries, raising see levels by meters.

    The main reason is that as ice melts and turns into water, the Earth loses its ability to reflect back the sun's rays, and the seas and newly exposed land heats up much more.

    We are already seeing these effects in places like Siberia and the Arctic where temps are already 9 degrees above normal. Overall the temp of the Earth's oceans has already increased 1 degree celsius over the past 50 years.

    These scientist say we have 10 years to put in place a RADICAL program to reduce greenhouse gases, and if we don't our society as it is now is doomed.

    They say we shouldn't be using fossil fuels AT ALL!
     
  2. Four Winds

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    I've heard this before too.

    This is really mind boggling. It amazes me to see how much damage we have really managed to do to mother Earth in such a short period of time.

    And to think, some people are still denying human involvement in this.
     
  3. mogarth456

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    Well there are things you can do to help reduce the amount of harm you are causing the enviroment, you can do this by offsetting your carbon on websites such as; www.co2debt.com . On these sites you are able to prevent climate change by funding ethical reforestation projects. I personally found that www.co2debt.com was the best site for this because of their strong relationships with other non-profit organizations
     
  4. JibberJabber

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    Watch time lapse videos of polar contraction and expansion during the 90's (when we first put satellites up to document such things). Yes, that's right, I said expansion. The polar ice changes all the time, it's part of nature. Leaves fall off trees during the fall, it doesn't mean that we're facing the death of all life on earth!
     
  5. skip

    skip Founder Administrator

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    As a matter of fact, MASS EXTINCTIONS are also part of "nature", and have happened many times in the past, including several that wiped out 95% of ALL life forms on the planet's surface.

    What scares scientists is that all their readings seem to be pointing towards a NEW MASS EXTINCTION. In fact more species are currently becoming extinct, faster than ever in the geological record. Likewise the signs that we are heading towards the same fate are very similar to those that appeared before previous mass extinctions.

    What started the biggest mass extinctions in geologic history was dramatic short-term changes in the composition of the atmosphere and oceans of the Earth. Just like what is happening today (although the exact gas ratios may have been different).

    So get your FACTS right.
     
  6. Nalencer

    Nalencer Dig Yourself

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    You really need to research some of this, not just repost articles on it. It's all fearmongering, orchestrated by people with an agenda that has nothing to do with saving the planet. There is, at present, no threat to the planet anyway. Global warming is not global at all. It's going on throughout the solar system, as it always has, and it will cool down again, as it always has. This is obvious to anyone who's taken the time to research it.
     
  7. JibberJabber

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    Exactly.

    Skip, seriously, where is the scientific data that we're barrelling towards mass extinctions? I've not seen it, and trust me, I've looked. I used to buy into this sort of thing too, but as I read more and more of the "evidence", I had more and more questions about how they arrived at these conclusions. Reading up on the subject is what made me the asshole skeptic I am today!

    Here's an interesting question that even we layfolk can appreciate. All that jazz about, I dunno, a billion species going extinct in the rainforest. Sounds awful, right? Well, how do they know all these species are dying? They're estimates. They've estimated that there are some huge number of undiscovered species, right there in the clearcuts-to-be. Let me ask you this: given that a biologist that does something amazing like discovering a new species will have made his career, and be able to write his own ticket for the rest of his life...why aren't we actually finding these undiscovered species every day? I mean...these biologists are presumably pretty smart, and the estimators know there's a ton of undiscovered species in the rainforests, so it's a pretty simple matter to hop a flight and go find `em.

    But they're not able to. At the rate these "mass extinctions" are going on, you shouldn't be able to throw a rock in the rainforest without hitting some sort of new form of flora or fauna. Why aren't we finding these buggers? Even if they're going extinct the terrible rate they're estimated to be dying at, there'd be a few dead ones lying around or something...right?
     
  8. Pressed_Rat

    Pressed_Rat Do you even lift, bruh?

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    So why aren't you speaking out against the government's suppression of free energy technology? If humans are the ones causing global warming, why do the powers that be want to keep us dependent on oil?
     
  9. Nalencer

    Nalencer Dig Yourself

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    Skip's a slave to the "Left", which is used just as much as the right by the manipulators at the top. Al Gore and Michael Moore are promoting the agenda just as much at George Bush and Rush Limbaugh. We need to transcend the "Left/Right" bullshit and realize who the real enemy is, before it's too late.
     
  10. Carlfloydfan

    Carlfloydfan Travel lover

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    and why do they continue to to live excessively while preaching the opposite to everyone else?

    Plain old fishy.

    Jones has a point:

    "The polar icecaps of Mars are receding at several miles a year, much faster than ours and that the moons of Saturn and Jupiter are melting, in fact several of their moons were ice and are now liquid seas - how are SUV's causing that?"
     
  11. Any Color You Like

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    Al Gore... he's not the only one. There are also organisations like greenpeace that promote environmentalism.
    And who is that terrible enemy? And too late for what? The day all humans will have care and love for their planet, will it be to late?
     
  12. Nalencer

    Nalencer Dig Yourself

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    Fuck off. Me and Rat and Carlfloydfan have posted all about in this forum already. I suggest you read some of the other threads. The global warming agenda has nothing to do with environmentalism; it's a political agenda. It has to do with creating global fear, and the "need" for new global taxes and laws which erode the sovereighty of individual nations, and the rights of their people. This is part of the global governance agenda that's been planned for a very long time.

    And you should probably look into the origins of Greenpeace a bit. Just because they're part of the "Left" doesn't make them trustworthy.
     
  13. skip

    skip Founder Administrator

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    "Just because they're part of the "Left" doesn't make them trustworthy."

    Same could be said about you.
     
  14. skip

    skip Founder Administrator

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    NO, YOU FUCK OFF! :)

    Yes, you HAVE, and thanks for Admitting it. So why are your repeating this shit again here?

    You've repeated your same points several times, as well as the others. You are just SPAMMING this site with anti-global warming propaganda and it won't be tolerated.

    You ppl come here with your conspiracy theories.

    Well guess what? I've decided ALL these conspiracy theories are LIES.

    It's very simple: Every private communication between two or more people is a CONSPIRACY.

    So EVERYTHING must be a conspiracy!

    And for a conspiracy to last for more than a hundred years and involve hundreds if not thousands of people, it would have to be the MOST OBVIOUS conspiracy in history.

    But what happens when a conspiracy gets so big?

    Dozens of smaller conspiracies hatch, often at odds with the original.

    So there is NO BEGINNING, NO END, NO DIVIDING points between conspiracies as you would have us believe.

    You are LIVING AN ILLUSION thinking these conspiracies are anything more than INDIVIDUALS LOOKING OUT FOR #1. Because when it comes right down to it an individual will always look after #1 no matter how many "conspiracies" they are involved with.

    Look at some of the biggest and oldest conspiracies in existence:
    The Catholic Church (or any) - Invisible? No. Full of secrets and conspiracies, Yes.
    Any gov't - is a conspiracy of individuals to coalese power over others in a geographic area
    Every treaty - is a conspiracy of collections of individuals to benefit their self interests.
    Every Political Party - is a conspiracy dedicated to promote a certain agenda

    I could go on and on. So a few elite have economic, social & political plans for others.

    SO FUCKING WHAT?

    So does EVERY group with power. Get USED TO IT!

    Their plans are OBVIOUS to everyone, just as every conspiracy's plans are when they affect other people.

    But ALL OF YOU who cry "conspiracy, conspiracy" are just crying "wolf!", because YOU ARE PARALYZED BY YOUR BELIEFS. You are HELPLESS given your belief to change anything. So now because you FEEL so helpless you expect OTHERS to become helpless like you.

    By believing in conspiracy theories, you deny YOUR OWN POWER to conspire with others to change things.

    Why do you think so much effort and resources are spent on KEEPING THE PEOPLE DOWN?

    Because they don't want the PEOPLE CONSPIRING TO ruin their plans.

    So they infiltrate groups and spread PROPAGANDA, just as you are doing now, to make people feel they don't have ANY POWER TO CHANGE things, when NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH.

    So these LIES about Global Warming are simply their attempt at DENYING you YOUR POWER while they maintain theirs.

    The last thing they want is the whole WORLD UNITING, under any cause, whatsoever. They want to control the unification of the world under their own terms - exploitation by business for profit. That is EVERY capitalist business' goal. You call THAT a conspiracy. We call that the "SYSTEM".

    The system is a WHOLE SCHOOL OF THOUGHT, not a single conspiracy.

    To undo this "system", it must be replaced by ANOTHER SCHOOL OF THOUGHT.

    And Global Warming is the ticket that will lead us towards another way of thinking about ourselves and our planet. That is the change that is coming, whether YOU do something about it or not.

    BTW, anyone coming here, DENYING the existence of global warming is likely to be banned as a propagandist for INDUSTRY. We won't tolerate their lies and propaganda here.

    If every time someone posts a thread about the effects of global warming and are met by "Global warming doesn't exist or is a conspiracy", they will be shown the exit from this website post haste. Why because we don't need to read REPETITIOUS POSTS, which at least 3 of you are guilty of in this thread.

    Got it?
     
  15. skip

    skip Founder Administrator

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    Yes, and no doubt we have Hundreds of thousands of years of observing these celestial bodies up close with probes to know exactly how much they have changed and over what period.

    The ice caps of Mars recede and expand EVERY year because they are seasonal. As far as the residual "permenant" cap goes...

    So pack up your lies and vacate the thread.

    This is why I MUST ban this shit, cause otherwise I'd spend ALL MY TIME refuting these lies EVERY TIME THEY GET REPEATED. Sorry, but I just don't have that kind of time.

    If you believe GLOBAL WARMING IS A LIE, OR THAT HUMANS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH. MAKE YOUR POINT...

    ONCE!

    Duplicate postings will GET YOU BANNED.
     
  16. skip

    skip Founder Administrator

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    Because THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO LIVE AT PRESENT. That is what must be changed, and AT LEAST THEY KNOW IT NOW.

    We have yet to generate alternatives for all those who WANT to live a different lifestyle. Those of us who've tried to live alternatively, in balance with nature have had a very difficult time thanks to the SYSTEM (not conspiracies).

    Now explain to me what your comment about "how people live excessively while preaching the opposite" has to do with the polar ice caps melting.

    YOU ARE USING LIE, DISTRACT, BLUR tactics on this thread, and it will only result in your banning. You've already been warned to stay on topic and stop propagandizing this forum.

    YOU ARE ALL HEREBY SO WARNED.
     
  17. Pressed_Rat

    Pressed_Rat Do you even lift, bruh?

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    I am sorry, Skip, but that is blatantly false. There are REAL alternatives, but they're being suppressed.

    I don't think anyone is denying the existence of global warming. They're denying the fact that it's manmade, and it just MIGHT be manmade when you look at HAARP and all the other technologies they have to alter the weather. But I think what most people are saying is that this warming trend has everything to do with solar activity and little, if anything, to do with greenhouse gases, which C02 accounts for a very small percentage of.
     
  18. skip

    skip Founder Administrator

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    I'm not talking about FUEL alternatives. Even that is just a SMALL part of the big picture, of the BIG system. There's much more at stake here than OIL. It's all about CAPITALISM and it's DEFECTS, which are now becoming all too apparent to the world's population.

    I studied economics and business and know the flaws that exist in its philosophy of "maximizing profits" at the expense of minimizing its humanity.

    Exploiting resources of third world countries to profit a few shareholders in first world countries is just PART of the problem.

    Now PR, can you remind us all what the subject of this thread is?

    Have you personally addressed it yet? If so I've yet to see it...

    Nor have I seen a single post or reference that provides any refutation of my original post.

    So what is the purpose of YOU, Nalencer, Carlfloydfan coming into this thread, when NONE of you have addressed the original subject?

    Do I smell a....

    conspiracy? ;)
     
  19. Pressed_Rat

    Pressed_Rat Do you even lift, bruh?

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    Well, it all ties in with the original thread. But I've said my piece already and am finished. I am not going to argue over what I believe. It's clear differing viewpoints are not well tolerated in this forum.
     
  20. skip

    skip Founder Administrator

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    NO BUT OFF-TOPIC, DUPLICATE POSTINGS ARE DEFINITELY AGAINST THE FORUM GUIDELINES, AS YOU WELL KNOW.
     

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