Climate change - Worse than Predicted

[clindhartsen 5]

Date: 11/15/2004 6:05:32 PM
Author: The Evil Octopus Man

Date:11/15/2004 6:03:45 PM
Author:vidioman

Date:11/15/2004 5:53:35 PM
Author:The Evil Octopus Man
Well Cubas not accepting the American dollar anymore, so it's a bit too late to start trade with them.

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Oops! There is actually a pretty good chance that when Castro goes, Cuba will become a Canadian Territory. Too bad you didn't start trading sooner, eh?

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I doubt that'll happen. I can't imagine people speaking spanish and saying eh at the end of everything.

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Well, it would look weird (I don't know spanish, thank google if it's screwed up)

No puedo imaginar el discurso de la gente espa

[drew 0]

Guys, guys.. you're going about it all wrong!!
We won't be 100% sure if we will be flooded in the near future (thats for our childern to decide ) Who's going to be alive to care if we or our leaders get drowned. One thing to be certian to ensure our destruction are the movement of tectonic plates. The earth's crust is moving and will cause mass devastation in seperation and merging.
(Am I making sense?)
Eh.. I remeber that much of the West Cost will become a peninsula and the Himilays will nearly double it's current height and Alaska will be one with Russia again.
Point is civilizations come and go. Our modern Cities are no exception. People will just rebuild urban centers elsewhere rather than relocate. And it is not like people are going to wake up one day and say Hm... I don't remeber sleeping in a pool last night. People will just get up and move gradually. Simple animal instinct of humans.. If one doesn't know how to escape danger logically, I feel sorry for you.

[vidioman 21]

Yeah, those Techtonic Plates sure are sneaky! Iceland will break in half, California will become and island, Japan will fall over. It'll be horrible! But me, being located on the Canadian sheild,4 billion year old solid rock 8 kilometres think, I ain't going anywhere!

 

And if we did get Cuba, we'd probably work with them to rebuild the country in a more democratic way, get it set up and everything. THe transition phase would last about 40 years. After that, it would become a free country. All at the expense of the Canadain tax payer, of course. We're practicing that in Haiti right now.

[Thalassicus 33]

You wouldn't want Cuba. It's a huge burden (both financially and internationally) having a presence in another country or being involved in their affairs (case in point: Iraq).

[burwellian 16]

Date: 11/15/2004 2:15:11 PM
Author: villarule
It is winter and im waiting for the snow

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Actually, It's not officially Winter until the Winter Solstice on December 21st...

Also, Our children to decide? How are we to have a say when our elders are pushing it over the edge before we're even in our 20s!

[Thalassicus 33]

Date: 11/16/2004 10:46:27 AM
Author: JVGazeley

Date: 11/15/2004 2:15:11 PM
Author: villarule
It is winter and im waiting for the snow

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Actually, It's not officially Winter until the Winter Solstice on December 21st...

Also, Our children to decide? How are we to have a say when our elders are pushing it over the edge before we're even in our 20s!

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It isn't winter until the middle of winter? Lol

After all, the solstice markes the middle of the time of year when the days are longest (winter)...

[vidioman 21]

No, the solstice marks the begining of winter. winter begins on December 21st this year. although, I usew a different system. Winter ie 1 December to 28 February, Spring is 1 March to 31 May, Summer is 1 June to 31 August, and fall is 1 September to 30 November. so, it is still fall for me. actually, it's Indian Summer. Going up to 60F today Crazy hot

[burwellian 16]

Date: 11/16/2004 11:57:00 AM
Author: Thalassicus

Date: 11/16/2004 10:46:27 AM
Author: JVGazeley

Date: 11/15/2004 2:15:11 PM
Author: villarule
It is winter and im waiting for the snow

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Actually, It's not officially Winter until the Winter Solstice on December 21st...

Also, Our children to decide? How are we to have a say when our elders are pushing it over the edge before we're even in our 20s!

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It isn't winter until the middle of winter? Lol

After all, the solstice markes the middle of the time of year when the days are longest (winter)...

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I know, seems odd, but it is the official start of winter...

Anyway, due to sleet on Friday, going to be 7C with a wind chill making it -1C... Fun!

[Playa del Carmen 0]

Date: 11/15/2004 1:31:25 PM
Author: EAGCE

Date:11/15/2004 1:23:55 PM
Author:vidioman

Cuba has a p[opulation os 11.8 million. Only a small percent 'risks their lives' trying to escape form there, and only a few of them make it, and they end up where? A land that will prosecute them for wanting to be 'free'. If Canada and the United States both bordered Mexico and Cuba, Canada would, most likely, be the one with all the illegal immigrants. We have cubans in Canada too. Both kinds

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There are many thousands, maybe millions, of cuban americans in florida and they all hate Castro. Must be for a reason.

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A give him a break eagce, he's just jealous they don't flee to Canada.


And I would disagree, there is such a thing as right and wrong.

And in regards to the climate issue: Today's worries are enough for today.

[bravoj 0]

getting back in topic, i have noticed since 3 or 4 years ago we have been experiencing some pretty peculiar seasons in M

[vidioman 21]

Date:11/17/2004 1:52:36 PM
Author:bravoj

getting back in topic, i have noticed since 3 or 4 years ago we have been experiencing some pretty peculiar seasons in M

[villarule 2]

There is new evidence about the impact humans have had on climate change:
clicketh ye here
click on the 'warming: the evidence' feature on the right hand side.

I really feel that the time to act is now before its too late

[Voar Tok 4]

You know, for all of the stuff out there about global warming, I would like to know why the city where I live had one of the coldest winters in 20 years (and maybe longer).

[Micah 16]

Last year was one of the coldest seasons we've (Texas) had in over a decade.

Kinda funny, on NBC News two Wednesdays ago, they said that Global Warming and smog is actually blocking out and absorbing the sun's radiation. They said we would actually be hotter by now if it weren't for Global Warming. But really, I don't know. Global Warming could be true and sometimes during the summer I think it does exist.

 

 

So what are we comparing our temperatures to anyways?

Temperatures back then in the 40s and 30s? Wasn't that also the time when hurricanes hit and most of the time they didn't know the catergory of a hurricane? We still don't know the Cat. of the worst hurricane in U.S. history that hit Galveston, TX.

 

I say by the year 2030, if the temperatures are still going up, then we have a problem. (I know, it's too late )

 

Also, just because we had a bad drought in Texas and Oklahoma, doesn't mean we haven't had one before!

 

But there is one side of Global Warming that I think is true... hurricanes are getting worse and worse, and this year a tropical storm hit Portugal for the first time in known history. Global Warming is having an extreme affect on hurricanes... but we have only been recording hurricane history and storm history since the early 1800s. Who knows if there wasn't a bad hurricane season during the late 1700s just like 2005's hurricane season.

[Bookworm 1]

Firstly, I would love to have Florida in Ohio, (weatherwise, not politics wise) so I can't say I'm against the idea of the earth warming up.
Secondly, I believe that at least 54.3% of this whole thing is media hype, similar to the Asian Bird Flu thing and all the other stuff they hound about.

[GREENIE123 0]

It's funny that the fact that pollution was 10X worse in the 3o's, 40's and 70's, yet you still beleive that global warming is controled by human activity.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Thing is that people are contrary. All they want to do is sit in their individual puddles and cry. To get a joint world-wide effort is something like pissing into the wind.

Besides, we are talking about something of geological proportions. I doubt that anything we puny humans can do can stop something like this once the ball starts rolling.

We will have to do what human beings always do. Adapt!