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Global Warming - From Inside the Globe
Bill Kendrick writes "The National Post reports that a team of American and Canadian researchers has found evidence of real global warming: the temperature of the Earth's crust is increasing at a remarkable rate. What's really interesting is that heat absorbed by rocks slowly permeates into the earth. By boring holes in the ground, they can tell how hot the earth was years ago, in a 'reading tree rings' fashion."
There are thousands and thousands of heaters. They are not natural and are causing the planet to warm up. If people would just keep their doors closed with the heater on it would be very beneficial to the animals.
The National Post is not a reliable source of information.
Good thing Slashdot is here to give us unbiased journalism.
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Everyone listen up! The poster above has informed us that we need to change everything we know about physics and the Earth! There is no heat produced on the planet from chemical reactions, nor nuclear reactions, nor from geothermal sources.
And finally, as far as the main source of heat is concerned (read: the sun), the naturally occurring greenhouse gases, along with those produced by human industry, are completely irrelevant in determining its impact. That's right! The greenhouse gases don't do anything at all! This is evidenced by the fact that when the sun sets, the temperature here on Earth drops to 70 degrees above absolute zero!
It's a good thing there are geniuses like the above poster to clarify everything on Slashdot.
*Dig, Dig, Dig*
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*Dig, Dig, Dig*
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"Hey Jack, we got two holes dug for ya. Now whatcha want us to do wit'em?"
"Lower the temperature guage into each hole and measure the temperature of the crust at the bottom of each hole. While you do that, I'll calculate the historical dates for each hole based on their depth..."
"Okey dokey boss...well, this here hole's got a readin' of 42 degrees...whatcha make out it's date to be?"
"Okay, according to my calculations, that one is from January of 1849, and the other one is dated to be around July of 1968."
"Okey, well, the udder' hole's got a readin' of 74 degrees."
***Next Day's Newspaper Headlines"***
"Experts Discover Dramatic Global Warming in the Earth's Crust"
I am devoting my life to the continuation of global warming. I promise I will not rest until the North/East (my home) has Florida like weather conditions year round.
We are badly in need of facts from someone schooled in heat transfer and/or geology
I'm no expert in heat transfer: I slept through most of the (7AM!) Thermodynamics course I took back when I was a student. I decided to bone up on it, however, the book is lodged in the middle of a stack of textbooks holding up one side of the shelf that my monitor rests upon. So, instead I'll bullshit my way through it. Just think of the earth to a big computer: the crust is the CPU, the atmosphere is the heatsink and the seas are the liquid cooling system God put in so He could overclock the world.
After thoroughly reading Tom's Hardware Guide, HardOCP, and a bunch of other sites on the web, I can say with all the authority of an expert in a completely different science making a bad analogy that we just need to shave a few mountains, apply a nice, thick layer of thermal compound and put tall enough (must reach beyond the atmosphere) heatsink/fan combos on top. Or maybe the Overclocked Jesus can turn the seas to liquid nitrogen and save us all! Of course, I'd never have a taste of fried halibut again, but I'm willing to make sacrifices.
If, in fact, there is a global warming trend, which I'm not inclined to dispute as there may well be, just what can we realistically do to prevent it? At this point, I'd suggest adapting, since there's only one other certain solution...
Give them an inch and they'll take a foot. Much more than that, you won't have a leg to stand on.