http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34242705/ns/technology_and_science-science/

ccrunner609 wrote: So what do we all do? Move to Mexico?

Call Dennis Quaid! Quick!

Don't worry, he already killed Manbearpig.

Hasn't the whole "global warming" thing been seriously called into question with accusations of cover-ups and data rigging? So why worry?

I'm guessing man wasn't the cause of this 13,000 years ago, so maybe instead of worrying about how to stop global warming we should worry about what happens if that tipping point happens, because I'd put my money on nature no matter what man does.

My brother-in-law is an extremely smart science nerd. He told me about this. He is right wing but believes this will happen. He also said global warming is happening. It's not a political thing.... there is evidence that the temps are going up which could lead to the ice caps melting.... which could lead to another ice age.

He said the political aspect of this comes down to whether or not you believe global warming is caused by humans (Al Gore's belief) or it's a natural cycle. My brother-in-law thinks this is just the Earth's natural cycle.

from the article:

""People assume that we're political, that we're either pro-global-warming or anti-global-warming, when it's really neither," Patterson added. "Our goal is just to understand climate." "

Truth.

Walt, That's interesting.....Ice caps melting....leading to another ice age.

Super cereal

I bought a new parka this year so I should be ok.

"Global Warming" isn't about the earth getting warmer. It's really about climate change--which would fit into the frame of said article.

Sage wrote: "Global Warming" isn't about the earth getting warmer. It's really about climate change--which would fit into the frame of said article.

Hook.
Line.
Sinker.

He wouldn't answer, he's working on the next way to make a buck because carbon credits are going to do it for him anymore.

Bottom line is, "global warming" is just a way to politicize and capitalize off a normal climate change. If we go into another ice age it will be nothing that we did, it's been a normal function of the Earth for far longer than we've been here. We'll just have to adapt to it.

The assumption that we control nature is the most arrogant thing mankind has ever conceived.

Has Manbearpig been spotted????

If you don't think that mankind, with all the shit we put into the atmosphere and the earth every day, doesn't have some sort of effect on this earth...well...i dont know what to tell you.

SQ_Crazies wrote: He wouldn't answer, he's working on the next way to make a buck because carbon credits are going to do it for him anymore.

Bottom line is, "global warming" is just a way to politicize and capitalize off a normal climate change. If we go into another ice age it will be nothing that we did, it's been a normal function of the Earth for far longer than we've been here. We'll just have to adapt to it.

The assumption that we control nature is the most arrogant thing mankind has ever conceived.

Do you believe that mankind has influence on nature and it's climate?

Sooo, in other words you didn't actually read what I typed?

I believe that we have a effect on the Earth, definitely. But to assume that we have much of an effect, or even accelerate, climate change is hilarious.

Al Gore has invented 2 of the biggest things in the world: The Internets and Global Warming. manbearpig!

SQ_Crazies wrote: Sooo, in other words you didn't actually read what I typed?

Sooo, in other words you just wanted to be a dick about the question I asked? Sounds about right.

SQ_Crazies wrote: I believe that we have a effect on the Earth, definitely. But to assume that we have much of an effect, or even accelerate, climate change is hilarious.

That wasn't so hard. If you don't believe we have even the slightest effect on climate change, then what effects on the Earth, and I am assuming you mean the climate, do we have?

Society wrote:

SQ_Crazies wrote: Sooo, in other words you didn't actually read what I typed?

Sooo, in other words you just wanted to be a dick about the question I asked? Sounds about right.

SQ_Crazies wrote: I believe that we have a effect on the Earth, definitely. But to assume that we have much of an effect, or even accelerate, climate change is hilarious.

That wasn't so hard. If you don't believe we have even the slightest effect on climate change, then what effects on the Earth, and I am assuming you mean the climate, do we have?

No, wasn't trying to be a dick, when I posted that your question wasn't up yet--we must have posted at the same time. That was directed at Sage.

And I said much of an effect. We have an effect on it, there is no way we couldn't but it isn't as drastic and some would have you believe. First of all, Global Warming (the way it's spoken about in the media) started so people could make money. Don't you find it a little odd that while Gore was so passionate about talking about carbon footprints he had one of the biggest in the world? Smoke and mirrors man, it's the same reason he tried to say he invented the internet. He tries to make money wherever he can. Is our climate changing? Probably, it's always changing to some extent. But our climate has gone through incredible changes long before man was here. We haven't even been industrialized for 200 years. That's a pathetic blip on the radar of the World. Climate change is a normal thing for our Earth to go through, it happened long before we were here and will happen long after we're gone.

It's not a coincidence that we're currently following this Climategate scandal. Like I said, we have some effect but they doctored numbers to make us all believe that it was far crazier than it is. I'm sorry you bought into it.

SQ_Crazies wrote:

Society wrote:

SQ_Crazies wrote: Sooo, in other words you didn't actually read what I typed?

Sooo, in other words you just wanted to be a dick about the question I asked? Sounds about right.

SQ_Crazies wrote: I believe that we have a effect on the Earth, definitely. But to assume that we have much of an effect, or even accelerate, climate change is hilarious.

That wasn't so hard. If you don't believe we have even the slightest effect on climate change, then what effects on the Earth, and I am assuming you mean the climate, do we have?

No, wasn't trying to be a dick, when I posted that your question wasn't up yet--we must have posted at the same time. That was directed at Sage.

And I said much of an effect. We have an effect on it, there is no way we couldn't but it isn't as drastic and some would have you believe. First of all, Global Warming (the way it's spoken about in the media) started so people could make money. Don't you find it a little odd that while Gore was so passionate about talking about carbon footprints he had one of the biggest in the world? Smoke and mirrors man, it's the same reason he tried to say he invented the internet. He tries to make money wherever he can. Is our climate changing? Probably, it's always changing to some extent. But our climate has gone through incredible changes long before man was here. We haven't even been industrialized for 200 years. That's a pathetic blip on the radar of the World. Climate change is a normal thing for our Earth to go through, it happened long before we were here and will happen long after we're gone.

It's not a coincidence that we're currently following this Climategate scandal. Like I said, we have some effect but they doctored numbers to make us all believe that it was far crazier than it is. I'm sorry you bought into it.

Never even hinted that I bought into anything. Just interested in others point of views.

Hey the biggest cause of global warming is the cow poo releasing toxins haha

Sorry, bad wording, that was more of a general statement than it was directed at you.

he must be serious business