A Countdown To Global Catastrophe?

An anonymous reader writes "From The Independent: The global warming danger threshold for the world is clearly marked for the first time in an international report to be published tomorrow - and the bad news is, the world has nearly reached it already. For the full story, see this article."

Comments

Watch the American naysayers come out

[Anonymous Coward]

because billions of dollars of oil/car industry brainwashing dollars can't be wrong

Re:This isn't about you.

[Twanfox]

Once again, the ignorance of some people truely amazes me.

If you are unwilling to look beyond your small little world and see that there's a big f'king planet around you, then noone can help you. If you can't seem to understand that removing trees (CO2 reducers) and adding power plants (CO2 producers), even without any kind of degree what so ever, will tend to increase the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, noone can help you.

I wonder what it would take to convince someone like you that there was a problem. Maybe not having any food to eat? Maybe trying to live through 150 degree days? Oh, I'm sure that having no snow ever would truely ruin your day, too, even if you can't comprehend the signifigance of it. Problem is, by the time all that happens, you won't be able to fix it before you die. Even if you stopped all CO2 production caused by humanity (basically, putting us in the dark with no electricity and no cars), the atmospheric composition would not change overnight.

This problem was started long before you or I were born. We probably won't have to deal with the problems, but if you ever plan on reproducing, your children sure as hell will.

Didn't we go through this in `89/`90?

[casmithva]

It was either my freshman or sophomore year in college -- 1989, 1990 -- when the usual gang of entertainers (who'd be better off shutting up and singing or acting) and liberals were running around, saying that if we didn't curtail our environmental abuse, then the world would literally end in ten years. It was either right before or right about the time that the global warming fad started up. Well, those ten years have come and gone, and we're still here.

Something caused and ended the previous ice ages -- and it wasn't us. Oh, and I'm sure that the occasional volcanic eruption has no impact whatsoever on the global climate or pollution, right?

Scientists can't even predict the weather three days out -- hell, in this area, not even twelve hours out! -- with any degree of accuracy, yet they have the audacity to claim that they can accurately predict what'll happen in five, ten, twenty, or a hundred years to the Earth's climate, taking into consideration not only human activity, but also the natural phenomena that they don't fully understand and can't accurately model? Give me a break!

Global warming is more of a political movement, an anti-American, anti-capitalist load of crap than it is a sound climatological theory. How else can one explain that ridiculous Kyoto Treaty?

Re:Didn't we go through this in `89/`90?

[bigjnsa500]

The Kyoto protocol just allows popluting countries to poplute more by buying "credits" from less poluting countries. The US did a good thing by throwing the finger at Kyoto for such a bogus treaty.

Re:Global Warming...Global Schmarming

[LegendOfLink]

Newsflash, before you go around accusing folks of being Bush-loving a-holes, I voted for John Kerry. Second, it's not "think-tank bullshit" that I'm saying. Can you find any scientific proof of global warming? Can you?

I don't understand what global warming has to do with George W. Bush? Your logic is completely irrelevant to the situation at hand.

Re:Venkman said it best:

[Lord Kano]

Hey, look, we eco-lefties can troll too!

Yeah, but mine was actually funny.

LK

Re:More extremism from the left

[EmagGeek]

You forget, the wacko leftists are not capable of logic because it quickly dispatches 99.9% of their emotionally-driven pseudo-arguments.

Re:Since we've already reached the threshold...

[N3WBI3]

If we (mostly North Americans) could end our love affair with huge, wasteful vehicles that more often than not are driven by only one person at a time, perhaps we wouldn't be in this situation now.

Yup blame whity, its not like to the fastest growning nations in the world both in terms of population and production are the two biggest comsumers of heavy polluting coal right (India and China). Maybe when the environmental movement dups there 'bitch about the us' attitude and puts something meaningful on the table thigs will get taken mroe seriously.