All this bloody snow, coldest winter in donkeys years, and they still harp on about global warming....
imo its a load of rubbish, people are trying to draw patterns as usual over things that are not predictable - ie. long term weather.... a similar trait to gamblers who always find patterns in past roulette numbers...
global warming my arse
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Well what some people fail to realise is that global warming doesn't mean that it has to be warmer than average every day of every year - nor does it mean every place on earth will get warmer! Some will get colder, it's a bit of a generic term that gets over-used by the media to be honest. So when you get any sign of cold weather, you always get a load of people moaning that this global warming lark is all made up.
It has been a pretty cold winter thus far, but nothing record breakingly so....just seems it after a decade of mild winters. Bring on the snow!
It has been a pretty cold winter thus far, but nothing record breakingly so....just seems it after a decade of mild winters. Bring on the snow!
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Re: global warming my arse
It's climate change, not global warming.ob wrote:All this bloody snow, coldest winter in donkeys years, and they still harp on about global warming....
imo its a load of rubbish, people are trying to draw patterns as usual over things that are not predictable - ie. long term weather.... a similar trait to gamblers who always find patterns in past roulette numbers...
do keep up.
Any argument that there ISN'T man made climate change going on is now totally debunked. We're definitely causing it.
The planet doesn't need saving. It's survived far worse than we could ever inflict on it.
If WE want to survive though, that might be a different matter.
And how are your Mediterranean drought-resistant plants doing after the last two summers?Mattb wrote:Well what some people fail to realise is that global warming doesn't mean that it has to be warmer than average every day of every year - nor does it mean every place on earth will get warmer! Some will get colder, it's a bit of a generic term that gets over-used by the media to be honest. So when you get any sign of cold weather, you always get a load of people moaning that this global warming lark is all made up.
It has been a pretty cold winter thus far, but nothing record breakingly so....just seems it after a decade of mild winters. Bring on the snow!
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Global warming started long before the "Industrial Revolution" and the invention of the internal combustion engine. Global warming began 18,000 years ago as the earth started warming its way out of the Pleistocene Ice Age-- a time when much of North America, Europe, and Asia lay buried beneath great sheets of glacial ice.
Earth's climate and the biosphere have been in constant flux, dominated by ice ages and glaciers for the past several million years. We are currently enjoying a temporary reprieve from the deep freeze.
Approximately every 100,000 years Earth's climate warms up temporarily. These warm periods, called interglacial periods, appear to last approximately 15,000 to 20,000 years before regressing back to a cold ice age climate. At year 18,000 and counting our current interglacial vacation from the Ice Age is much nearer its end than its beginning.
Global warming during Earth's current interglacial warm period has greatly altered our environment and the distribution and diversity of all life. For example:
Approximately 15,000 years ago the earth had warmed sufficiently to halt the advance of glaciers, and sea levels worldwide began to rise.
By 8,000 years ago the land bridge across the Bering Strait was drowned, cutting off the migration of men and animals to North America.
Since the end of the Ice Age, Earth's temperature has risen approximately 16 degrees F and sea levels have risen a total of 300 feet! Forests have returned where once there was only ice.
Unfortunately, we tend to overestimate our actual impact on the planet. In this case the magnitude of the gas emissions involved, even by the most aggressive estimates of atmospheric warming by greenhouse gases, is inadequate to account for the magnitude of temperature increases. So what causes the up and down cycles of global climate change?
Climate change is controlled primarily by cyclical eccentricities in Earth's rotation and orbit, as well as variations in the sun's energy output
Global climate and temperature cycles are the result of a complex interplay between a variety of causes. Because these cycles and events overlap, sometimes compounding one another, sometimes canceling one another out, it is inaccurate to imply a statistically significant trend in climate or temperature patterns from just a few years or a few decades of data. Well that's one theory anyway..
Earth's climate and the biosphere have been in constant flux, dominated by ice ages and glaciers for the past several million years. We are currently enjoying a temporary reprieve from the deep freeze.
Approximately every 100,000 years Earth's climate warms up temporarily. These warm periods, called interglacial periods, appear to last approximately 15,000 to 20,000 years before regressing back to a cold ice age climate. At year 18,000 and counting our current interglacial vacation from the Ice Age is much nearer its end than its beginning.
Global warming during Earth's current interglacial warm period has greatly altered our environment and the distribution and diversity of all life. For example:
Approximately 15,000 years ago the earth had warmed sufficiently to halt the advance of glaciers, and sea levels worldwide began to rise.
By 8,000 years ago the land bridge across the Bering Strait was drowned, cutting off the migration of men and animals to North America.
Since the end of the Ice Age, Earth's temperature has risen approximately 16 degrees F and sea levels have risen a total of 300 feet! Forests have returned where once there was only ice.
Unfortunately, we tend to overestimate our actual impact on the planet. In this case the magnitude of the gas emissions involved, even by the most aggressive estimates of atmospheric warming by greenhouse gases, is inadequate to account for the magnitude of temperature increases. So what causes the up and down cycles of global climate change?
Climate change is controlled primarily by cyclical eccentricities in Earth's rotation and orbit, as well as variations in the sun's energy output
Global climate and temperature cycles are the result of a complex interplay between a variety of causes. Because these cycles and events overlap, sometimes compounding one another, sometimes canceling one another out, it is inaccurate to imply a statistically significant trend in climate or temperature patterns from just a few years or a few decades of data. Well that's one theory anyway..
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