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Human Activity to Blame For 2003 Heatwave
Dirak writes "The temperatures of the summer of 2003 were almost undoubtedly the highest in Europe for over 500 years. New research shows how human influence, mainly fossil fuel burning, can be blamed for increasing the risk of such a heatwave and by the middle of this century every other summer could be even hotter than 2003."
What a great boon for real estate in Norway! Time to buy up those cottage properties.
No way. We humans caused it through what is known as the "environmental slashdot effect."
It involves burning servers heating the atmosphere and such...
Human Activity including exhaling has become a huge problem in europe. I propose we have some regulations on the number of exhales per day per human. When everyone exercises and everyone's breathing hard, the ENVIRONMENT is taking one for the team.
by the middle of this century every other summer could be even hotter than 2003.
Excellent, it sure sucked where I live.
That's what I keep telling the kids, shut the window your letting the heat out.
You mean that some Joe Random Commentator on Slashdot (who can't spell flawed) has spotted some "serious" flaws in a research paper that the peer reviewers of Nature, one of the most reputable scientific journals in the world, have failed to spot.
Well, spank me on the arse and call me shorty!
I'll look forward to reading your comments in the next issue of Nature.
No but, yeah but, no but...
This research has some serious flaws..... I think it was written to grab headlines.
I agree. Fuming liberals were responsible for the heatwave.
They are cooling off now though.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Human Activity to Blame...
Too much "human activity" in Europe?! *nudge* *nudge*
People 500 years ago drank a lot of homemade beer - the alcohol kills off a lot of the nasty bacteria. And stuff like cabbage, sausage, and beans were often eaten by the poor. So yes, I'd say that a huge amount of greenhouse gases - most notably methane - really was being produced back then.
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i took the title to mean 200 million europeans doing star-jumps warmed the earth...
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Bring on nuclear winter. That will even things up nicely.
The heat wave had nothing to do with the sun... welcome to the new dark age where bad weather is becuase of the evil doers. And has nothing to do with the sun.
...astroturfers are hired to log onto Slashdot to change our opinion.
Some people get paid to post here? I gotta get me some of that!
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Talking about Global Warming is very unpatriotic in the US!
Remember there are no such thing as
- Global Warming
- AIDS
- Teen Pregnancy because of bad (bigotry) or non existent education
- dead US soldiers in Iraq
- millions of americans without health care
But there are things such as:
- WMD in Iraq
- Bush talks to God
- Al Quaida - Saddam H. connection
- Need for automatic weapons to protect from evil arab TeRrORiSts on US soil
- love for the US troops from the friendly and peaceful people from Iraq
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I'm sure the Earth has sustained worse temperature fluxations. I mean, look at cows and how much methane they produce. Now think about dinosaurs -- its like a cow the size of a school bus. Imagine how much greenhouse gases dinosaur farts created! And look what happened to the dinosaurs, they turned out just fine.....oh crap!
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In related news, hippies everywhere are rushing to blame the entire problem on American decadence and Hummers, despite the proliferation of 18-wheelers and coal energy plants in the world. Film at 11, after the latest ELF attack.
It got hot. A lot of French people died.
Tell me the bad part?
Liberty uber alles.
IMMEDIATELY suspend all shipments of BARRY WHITE MUSIC!!! The planet depends on it!!!
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Anyone that reads this article without his thinking cap on is going to get his dander up over this, but lets think about this.
You can prove the earth IS warming without any danger of falling into an argument over measurement. How? THE ICE AGES ARE OVER (just in case you didn't notice). This mudball has been warming up (on average) for thousands of years, and there wasn't a single car, power plant, or petroleum factor around for anything but the smallest infintesimal percentage of the time.
This planet (historically) has been through ages both hotter and much cooler than this, and only a bunch of evolved monkey like creatures is arrogant enough to claim responsibility.
Personally, I like global warming. The beach is much nicer without ice sheets and hiking in the mountains is a lot more fun WITHOUT snowshoes, ice crampons, and extreme cold weather suits.
Oh, and while I'm riling up the religious types of environmentalists, some extinctions can be good too. Personally, I worry in the fall about hitting deer at night on a back road (a real problem here). I am very thankful I don't have to worry about an INTERSTATE blocked by a wandering heard of DINOSAURS (hitting one of those could put a dent in your car, and the meat eaters could absolutely destroy the market for convertables).
Think about what's going on here and ignore the chicken-littles that are funded by your fear. You'll find ways of having over-inflated egos without trying to take credit for "global warming" disasters.
It doesn't matter what you wrap your emotions around, Reality is a brick wall specifically designed to scramble eggs
Anyone who doesn't believe the same thing that I believe is obviously riding on life's short bus.
Just look at [Anecdotal Fact A], [Anecdotal Fact B], and their relationship to [Widely-known prinicple], and the numerous scientists who support My opinion.
Those 'scientists' who don't agree with My stance have clearly sold out for political or monetary interests, while the scientists who agree with My stance are motivated by pure altruism.
It is clear that those who do not agree with My stance on this issue probably vote for a political party that I don't vote for, and probably masturbate too much.
The only thing that we learn from history is that nobody learns anything from history.