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Swami
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200 USA cities hit record high temps
#4451896 - 07/25/05 05:36 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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No global warming?
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Gijith
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Re: 200 USA cities hit record high temps [Re: Swami]
#4451924 - 07/25/05 05:44 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Not based on that.
It's just fucking hot out.
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zappaisgod
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Re: 200 USA cities hit record high temps [Re: Gijith]
#4451935 - 07/25/05 05:46 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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My wife's pussy keeps getting hotter and hotter. Do you think it's because of all the smoke I blow up her ass?
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Swami
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Re: 200 USA cities hit record high temps [Re: Gijith]
#4451940 - 07/25/05 05:47 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yeah, but what about the new Jessica Simpson video? How do you explain that?
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newuser1492
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Re: 200 USA cities hit record high temps [Re: Swami]
#4452238 - 07/25/05 07:28 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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It may be generally believed that the earth is going through a global climate change however their is no definitive proof that man has caused the change. The earth does go through climatic shifts every so often so man may very well not be the cause.
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moog
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Re: 200 USA cities hit record high temps [Re: Swami]
#4452330 - 07/25/05 07:51 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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You're missing the real issue here, which is the great evil of heat that threatens to kill scores of innocent Americans. I demand random thermostat checks in all major cities to ward off this menace. We need to secure our freedom!
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cybrbeast
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Re: 200 USA cities hit record high temps [Re: newuser1492]
#4452369 - 07/25/05 08:01 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Almost all credible scientist agree that humans are changing the climate. Stop debating this.
http://www.ems.org/climate/facts.html
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Climate Change Facts
Last update: May 25, 2004
The following are some notable scientific institutions and studies that have found that industrial emissions are causing global warming:
* The governing council of the American Geophysical Union unanimously adopted a resolution in December 2003 stating that "human activities are increasingly altering the Earth's climate... scientific evidence strongly indicates that natural influences cannot explain the rapid increase in global near-surface temperatures observed during the second half of the 20th century." See also: "American Geophysical Union Takes Strong Stand on Global Warming," Voice of America.
* In 2001, the National Academy of Sciences issued a report called "Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions," which states: "Greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise. Temperatures are, in fact, rising. The changes observed over the last several decades are likely mostly due to human activities, but we cannot rule out that some significant part of these changes is also a reflection of natural variability."
* According to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it is likely that human activity "contributed substantially to the observed warming over the last 50 years." (Source: New York Times, October 26, 2000, "Scientists Now Acknowledge Role of Humans in Climate Change")
* In 1999, a computer-based study by the University of Maryland and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center found that there is less than a 0.1 percent chance that observed melting of arctic sea ice over the last 46 years is the result of normal climatic variations. (Source: Washington Post, December 3, 1999, "Study: Arctic Sea Ice Is Rapidly Dwindling; Global Warming Called Likely Cause")
* A July 2000 Texas A&M study found that human activity is responsible for 75 percent of observed warming since 1900, with the remaining 25 percent caused by natural factors such as fluctuations in solar intensity. (Source: New York Times, July 14, 2000, "Study Faults Humans for Large Share of Global Warming")
* According to John Houghton, co-chair of the IPCC, no more than ten of at least 3000 international climate scientists reject the idea that greenhouse gas emissions are causing the planet to warm. (Source: New Scientist, April 6, 2001, "Combined effort")
* Carbon dioxide and methane levels are both well outside the range of natural variation, according to a 1999 study of ice core records dating back 420,000 years by the National Center for Scientific Research in Grenoble, France. Carbon dioxide levels are more than 20 percent higher than during historical peaks (warm periods), and twice as high as during ice ages; methane levels are double their historical peak levels, and about five times higher than during ice ages. (Source: Associated Press, June 10, 1999 "Scientists: Ice core sample attests to warming climate")
Greenhouse gases
* Greenhouse gases -- such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide -- trap solar energy that would normally be radiated back into space, causing average global temperatures to rise.
* The chief cause of rising global temperatures is carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted when fossil fuels are burned.
* Greenhouse gases targeted for reduction under the Kyoto Protocol are: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride. The emission targets are not for the specific gases, but rather for a combination of the six gases weighted by the relative effect of each gas.
* Click here for a table with data on the three most important greenhouse gases, including pre-industrial and present concentrations, impact and human sources. Or search the U.N. database by country, gas, source, and year.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
* The IPCC, sponsored by the United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization, is a group of 2,500 of the world's preeminent scientists from more than 100 nations.
* The mainstream scientific view -- first expressed in 1995 by the IPCC -- is that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernable human influence on global climate." The IPCC's 2001 report states, "An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and modeling studies indicate that most of the observed warming at the Earth's surface over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to human activities." (Source: IPCC 2001 Synthesis Report)
* According to the IPCC 2001 synthesis report, the greenhouse effect could drive global temperatures up as much as 5.8 C over the period 1990 to 2100 -- an increase in temperature greater than the warming that has occurred since the last ice age. (Source: IPCC 2001 Synthesis Report)
* Read the transcript of a statement issued in November 2000 by Dr. Robert Watson, who then chaired the IPCC, on the occasion of an EMS conference call about the science of climate change.
Funny that N2O is also a big greenhouse gas. People, stop using the hippy crack
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newuser1492
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Re: 200 USA cities hit record high temps [Re: cybrbeast]
#4452416 - 07/25/05 08:17 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Stop debating this.
haha well I guess that pretty much screws this whole forum.
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BCBudJohn
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Re: 200 USA cities hit record high temps [Re: newuser1492]
#4453265 - 07/25/05 11:15 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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We're fucked.
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Seuss
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Re: 200 USA cities hit record high temps [Re: Swami]
#4454478 - 07/26/05 06:44 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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I have never claimed that global warming doesn't exist... I just have a problem with those that know for fact that global warming is manmade.
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BanJankri
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Re: 200 USA cities hit record high temps [Re: newuser1492]
#4454672 - 07/26/05 08:15 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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cb9fl said: It may be generally believed that the earth is going through a global climate change however their is no definitive proof that man has caused the change. The earth does go through climatic shifts every so often so man may very well not be the cause.
I think you could make this argument in the 80's but we're over that problem now, its decided and we moved along accordingly.
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newuser1492
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Re: 200 USA cities hit record high temps [Re: BanJankri]
#4454810 - 07/26/05 08:59 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Really, so think that their is no doubt global warming is man made?
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Drink_Punk_Soda
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Re: 200 USA cities hit record high temps [Re: newuser1492]
#4454822 - 07/26/05 09:06 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Global warming is man-assisted. It may have been occuring naturally, but my bet is we've helped accelerate the process greatly.
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Redstorm
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Re: 200 USA cities hit record high temps [Re: Seuss]
#4454980 - 07/26/05 10:10 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Seuss said: I have never claimed that global warming doesn't exist... I just have a problem with those that know for fact that global warming is manmade.
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Learyfan
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Re: 200 USA cities hit record high temps [Re: Swami]
#4455135 - 07/26/05 11:04 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Swami said: No global warming?
People will say that volcanos cause most global warming.
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Madtowntripper
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Re: 200 USA cities hit record high temps [Re: Seuss]
#4459686 - 07/27/05 10:29 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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I have never claimed that global warming doesn't exist... I just have a problem with those that know for fact that global warming is manmade.
Very little is known for sure. Absolute knowledge is extremely scarce. However, I'm a Geophysics student, and I can tell you that among climate scientists, such as those who teach most of my classes, there is a general consensus that human factors are most assuredly contributing heavily to the warming of the planet.
While it is undoubtedly true that the planet goes through climactic shifts from time to time, the current shift we are seeing is unprecedented in the speed at which the changes are occuring.
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blacksabbathrulz
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Re: 200 USA cities hit record high temps [Re: Madtowntripper]
#4460364 - 07/27/05 02:18 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Considering that 98% of greenhouse gasses are water vapor, it's pretty clear that CO2, CH4 etc. are minor, so its hard to say for sure that man is the cause of global warming.
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