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Warming and Slowing the World
chrisleonard writes "We all know that global warming is supposed to heat the planet up, but did you know that it might also slow it down? According to a report from Belgium's Royal Observatory (as reported here by astronomy.com), if the days seem a little longer to you than they used to, it might not be just old age catching up with you. Would it be wrong to call the interaction of the world's warming temperatures and its slowing rotation ... a snowball effect?"
... but you can bet the Slashdot crowd will ignore the facts on this one.
Please, just for a moment, put aside all of your preconceptions and assumptions and go out there and learn the facts . What you will discover in this process is that Global Warming is, in fact, quite real. Frighteningly real. And human beings are the cause.
You're always going to find scientists who will claim that Global Warming is a crock of shit. (A lot of those same scientists work for oil companies and other concerns.) But the truth of the matter is, the vast, VAST majority of the world's scientists overwhelmingly agree that Global Warming is very real and poses a significant threat to our ecosystem and our way of life.
This bullshit about the "myth" of Global Warming is largely a U.S. phenomenon. Most 1st world countries trust their scientists and completely understand that Global Warming is a very real threat. So much so that even China jumped on the bandwagon. The sole detractor at Kyoto is the good ol' U. S. of A. As usual, we've got our head in the sand.
A few of you have mentioned how the media has blown this out of proportion and is being alarmist, etc. The exact opposite is true. The media in the U.S. has ignored and sidelined the entire issue. People hate scary stuff. Doesn't sell. So they barely mention it. All the more reason that our government should continue to fund (and increase funding for) unbaised news sources like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
But my point is, go learn the facts before you show up here pretending you know them.
P.S. And keep an eye on the weather. It'll just get more and more obvious. Been quite a warm winter this year, wouldn't you say?
EXACTLY! It blows my mind how quack science get's publicized today. Everything that they have been gloom-and-dooming about are just hazy theories with no solid proof (do we have 1000 years of data? noooo? well then you cant figure out what changes are happening with a 98 Gagillion year old planet All of these events have a greater chance being either a cycle of normal planetary operation or another reason.
This slowing is so slow it cannot be measured (your refrence points in space are probably changing at a different and possibly faster rate) and even those have to be assumed. It amazes me how scientists forget relativity so easily and quickly. this supposed slowing of the planetary rotation is in relation to what? when was the last time we actually measured the earth's roatation to within a microsecond? How about the last time we measured the earth's diameter or circumfrence to within a centemeter? I'd say that both are impossible without calibrated refrence points.
Someone please tell these quack scientists to shut up until they have plausable evidence or even when they move from the hypothesis stage to theory..
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