NOOO!!!! : (

[Farka]

Both of you, stop posting in this thread if you aren't going to contribute to it's purpose.


It's hard to grasp how different the world could be in 100 years. The last 100 years we ****ed up the world. The next hundred years, the world's going to **** us up.

[the_unda_doggz]

Why even care? None of us are going to be alive 100 years in the future.

[Farka]

It's going to be YOUR kids and your grand kids that have to deal with it. No one is that cold and selfish. You care, you're just not thinking deep enough about the situation. Our entire planet, that we've inhabited for millions or billions of years is about to get all fcked up because of people like you who don't give a ****.

[the_unda_doggz]

Lol, you know what? I will not have any kids just to prove a point.

(8 more posts until 1,000!)

[PinoySkillz]

Originally Posted by the_unda_doggz

And seriously, I don't give a god mother****ing damn about the enviroment.

I can only shake my head in disgust.

Wow, all this talk of doom and gloom. Hopefully my post can make some of you stop soiling yourselves..

Sure the planet is getting warmer now, but it was hotter than this hundreds of millions of years ago when the atmosphere was much thicker. The recent increase in temperature isn't going to affect the habitability of this planet. As long as earth's orbit around the sun stays within the habitable zone, this planet will never get too hot or cold to live in.

Whoever said that the damage we've caused to earth is irreperable is wrong. Everytime a space shuttle blasts off into space 1% of the atmosphere is depleted. There have obviously been well over 100 trips into space but, alas the atmosphere is still there! That's because the atmosphere and earth heals itself. What we have to make sure of is that we don't damage earth faster than it can heal itself. To do that however, would take a large concerted effort.

Also, to the people who think that nobody cares, or the goverment doesn't care...wrong again. Most people do care. There are plenty of laws regulating energy and emissions. I'm pretty sure every city in America has a recycling program. New fuels are being used(ethanol) and hybrid cars are rapidly gaining popularity.

So RELAX people. Global Warming isn't going to kill us...the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics will.

PS - the_unda_doggz reminds me of Hoggish Greedly from Captain Planet hahaha

[GuidoHunter]

Originally Posted by the_unda_doggz

Ok, asshole... It wasn't public fighting. I was inside my house. And seriously, I don't give a god mother****ing damn about the enviroment.

Then don't post in here.

You'd do very well to not post again in this thread, in fact, as you're dangerously close to getting banned for spam and flaming in CT. Just a word of precaution.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[GuidoHunter]

Deleted a bunch of crap posts because some of y'all don't know how this forum works.

Shut up and post on-topic...with some shred of intelligence, please, though that's probably too much to ask for some...

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[acknerr]

Originally Posted by the_unda_doggz

Ok, asshole... It wasn't public fighting. I was inside my house. And seriously, I don't give a god mother****ing damn about the enviroment.

ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL!!!!!!! Who cares you still got arrested for your actions. Back to the point, you really should care about the environment. It doesn't matter if you aren't going to be alive in 100 years, other people will be and we can't do whatever we want with complete disregard to our planet. When you come down to it, the human race is an intelligent, caring race who has the ability to make a difference. I really don't see how you can not care for this planet at all. It really is sickening to read some of your posts here.

[snickolas]

Agreed. Global warming is a natural process (living things and natural disasters contribute C02 since millenia ago), and it is our fault for it's acceleration. We may not be able to stop it, but hopefully after all this "new" concrete info has gone public and blown up, the human race can make steps in the right direction. Hopefully. Ahoy alternative energy sources.

[GuidoHunter]

Alternative energy sources won't alleviate global warming to any great extent. Primarily because the energy demand by the whole world is so great that it requires the use of fossil fuels, and the percentage of emitters that would be affected by a switch to alternative sources would be relatively small.

Preserving the rainforest (as hippy-ish as it sounds) will be a great step in the right direction, considering how it's the best energy-degrading system on the entire planet, hands down.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[GuidoHunter]

Keeping that this is CT in mind, feel free to post it if it conforms to the strict rules here.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[chunky_cheese]

Originally Posted by Squeek

Wow, who saw that coming.

A planet that has had relatively steady climates over the past 4.6 billion years suddenly warms up a bit when humans start industrializing the world.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE SCIENTISTS WHO WASTED SIX YEARS AND BILLIONS OF TAXPAYERS' MONEY TO DISCOVER THIS.

Good thing is, nobody cares. Nothing they can do will reverse what has happened, or slow it down, or whatever. So really, why worry about it.

Humans produce CO2. CO2 is the problem. What can we do.

For us religious folk, it is only 6,000 years =P

[GuidoHunter]

Originally Posted by businessman07

well, basically it works like this,

we take polution (vapors), compress them, put them at the bottom of the ocean, may you keep in mind the pressures at this depth are emince*(correct?).

Immense, but I already sense manymany problems with this.

on a physics project I did earlier this year we experimented with gases under water, I found out that when gas is compressed under water that is greater than the density of the water itself the gas won't break the surface, my teacher found this to be correct with the laws of phycsics and confirmed that I was right.

You're going to have to be more specific with this. First of all, "under water that is greater than the density of the water itself"? Its density is greater than its density? I'm trying to figure out what you mean by this but can't come up with anything.

Second of all, what surface won't the gas break? The surface of the water?

And I don't even understand what you're trying to say the gas will do! Are you suggesting that it would sit at the bottom of the ocean? I've got a coupla physical laws myself that that would contradict.

In another trial we used co2 as the test subject, and as the co2 stayed underwater for a time of 3 monthes and a couple days the bubble was displaced but when we examined the water and the air inside the test surroundings it tested negative for high amounts of co2.

Huh? You're saying that the CO2 wouldn't dissolve? Yet a couple more physical laws that that violates. On top of that, marine biologists WELL understand that the ocean sinks VAST amounts of CO2 from the atmostphere, which DOES already affect marine wildlife.

were not sure where the co2 goes yet but we do know it dissipates

I think you just insinuated that it DOESN'T dissipate.

we know it is being converted to somthing we just don't know what it is yet

Dissipating and conversion are, for the purposes of this argument, pretty much mutually exclusive.

As for the holes I mentioned earlier, do you understand exactly how much energy it would require to compress amounts of air on the scale of Earth's entire atmosphere? And what would be required to sink that air to the bottom of the ocean?

This plan is entirely unfeasible.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[T3RR3N]

Unfortunatly there is no single soloution to global warming, we cannot just do one single thing which will fix a problem as large as this. What were trying to do, and im sure the UN is pushing for, albeit a bit late is that we significantly slow the effect. Agreements like the Kyoto protocall are exactly what we need to slow it down. On the other hand it is getting increasingly hard to slow it down with the uprising of india and china as global powers. Moreso than ever before. (Also anyone who hasnt seen Al Gores "An inconveniant Truth" should if you really are involved in this topic, it really is quite scary.)

[GuidoHunter]

Originally Posted by T3RR3N

Agreements like the Kyoto protocall are exactly what we need to slow it down.

Except that we need useful, applicable, and enforceable protocols. The Kyoto Protocol was hardly more than a political move.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[SethSquall]

Found out today that as global warming goes forward and countries get hotter. Britain will get colder. Lame.

[sherbtail]

Originally Posted by the_unda_doggz

Lol, you know what? I will not have any kids just to prove a point.

Please, please, please don't have kids, it is all I ask of you

Although global warming is scary, very scary in fact, I have a faith in humanity that we will do something about it...eventually...
All we can do as individuals is try our hardest to support green initiatives, like recycling and energy saving lightbulbs (both of which save money in the long run so it's silly to not do it anyway) and hope that our governments and big corporations help get us out of this mess

[slipstrike0159]

You should probably have made yourself clearer and told the story exactly how it happened. Even if you were to be right about the ability for CO2 and such being able to just sit at the bottom of the ocean in bubbles (as you implied) how would they get there? I think if we tried to gather up all of the gases we are sending into the atmosphere, compressed them, and then pushed them to the bottom of the ocean we would send up more gases then we are taking out. What this leads me to believe is that you want everyone to put balloons on their exhaust pipes and when they fill up you give them to the governemnt to put in a group and send them down to the bottom tied to a big rock. -Okay obviously thats now what you were saying but thats about improbable it is.

[purebloodtexan]

Do you think we'll ever run out of fossil fuels before the day after tommorow? I mean, we are wasting it much faster than it being produced. If the powers of the world realize that we are most definitely overusing our oh-so-precious fossil fuels, we could try to predict its running out.

I'm not saying that this will bring the warming to a halt, but if we try to figure out the future of fossil fuels, some may be motivated to (if not becoming over-energy-efficient) not use so much fossil fuel every single day.

Maybe my statement might be half-retarded, but you can't have fossil fuels forever, you know.

[leo172519]

Originally Posted by sherbtail

Please, please, please don't have kids, it is all I ask of you

You know I hope he does have kids and I hope they become known for a main solution to global warming...not likely, but still.
As for the fossil fuels, yes they will deplete. I'm pretty sure, as far as say oil goes, we have some sort of amount we have left written down ESTIMATE somewhere. Since it takes a lot to find where oil is there is no telling how much is exactly left and with new cars and a new generation of drivers oil will be going faster than ever. When the oil runs out, I'm hoping our civilization will have moved onto other less harmful fuels like eco-diesel or just a high voltage battery.