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New Climate Change Warning
sebFlyte writes "A new grid computing climate research project, climateprediction.net, has come up with its first major results, and they're really not good news for the planet according to the BBC. The simulations suggest that over the next hundred years we could see average rises of average temperatures of up to 11K, more than twice what was previously thought."
The same assumption that we'll all be standing around in our undies one hundred years from now.
Get with the program. None of this is going to be relevant a hundred years from now.
Nanotech will obviate any of this being significant, probably well within fifty years.
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
Run this by me again please. Why did we fight WW2? With your level of thinking, Germany would be the #1 super power.
But naaaaa.... Americans seem to remember history far better then Europeans. You spineless coward
Life is not for the lazy.
"If you increase a forest's temperature by about 5 degrees, you double its risk of forest fire."
Seriously, what makes you think you can get away with statements like this on slashdot?
At what temperature is there 0 risk? What about rain? Is there a 100% risk point? What kind of area are we talking about? Haven't we learned that periodic forest fires are part of the cycle of life for a forrest?
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.
Does anybody remember how Chaos Theory was first postulated?
It began with a weather simulation computer model.
The operator halted the program to do some other work on the computer, typed in some parameter values that were close to the values present when the program was halted, and resumed the computation.
Low and behold, within a few minutes the pattern was completely different than it had been in previous iterations.
This is when they discovered that minor changes in the starting conditions could lead to drastic differences in the outcome. This observation was later christened the "Butterfly Effect."
The crux of Chaos Theory is that some systems will NEVER be predictable because there are so many variables that it is impossible to know all the starting conditions.
If a computer model can't even predict weather more than a few days out, how is it that it can predict weather a hundred years from now?
People who believe in global warming are religious zealots, true believers.
They don't require any scientific facts, just pseudo-scientific hysteria.
We must be alert to the danger that public policy could become captive to a scientific-technological elite. - Eisenhower
Afghanistan was a total sucess. They have freedom and democrocy now. Though the had it not been for the UN botching up the job, the vote count could have gotten real nasty. But it didn't so I will leave it at that.
I suppose out of "principle" we should have left Afgahanistan in the shit-hole state it was in under theocratic islamic rule by the Taliban. Am I right?
And if the EU would start helping rather be a monkey on our back, we would have a much better sucess rate with Iraq. Or...just to spite the US, you would rather have Iraq be left in failed state of affairs?
Life is not for the lazy.
Afghanistan was a total sucess. They have freedom and democrocy now
Are you joking or are you fucking moron? If Afghanistan was a total success, why does the UN still have 18,000 troops in the country?
The Afghani government only controls the area around Kabul, the rest of the country is in chaos, mostly controled by a dozen different warlords.
People are hungry, there are no jobs, opium production is at an all time high, the Taliban has killed nearly 1000 people in the last year.
Democracy means more then having elections.
94% of Repubs and 21% of Dems voted to renew the Patriot Act
*Rant mode on*
Afghanistan was fine. and "...when in reality you just support dictators usually."
I'm not sure who scares me most. Brainwashed idiots such as yourself, or Al Qaeda.
Ya, Afghanistan was fine alright, so was the Soviet Union, Mogadishu, Iraq, Cuba, etc. And lets not forget that Bin Ladin is such a NICE guy. Then again...so was Adolf Hitler once you got to be his personal friend.
Yup, only the western world can have freedom and democracy. The rest of the world is not capable of such ideas. Ohhh noooo, lets not disrupt their perfect happy little world. Noooooo we can never do that. Now if you excuse me, I will find some fresh sand to stick my head in.
Life is not for the lazy.
Here in America more than anywhere we are oil, literally.
The people who run our government are oil. The oil industry staged a coup in 2000 and literally stole an election. But It's not just the repubs though, it's almost every politician in Washington, see Robert Baer's book, Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Sole For Saudi Crude. Condi Rice, while working at Chevron had an oil tanker named after her and Haliburton's CEO is now the brains of our operation. Even the puppet man himself has deep ties to oil, albiet his oil company Arbusto failed, miserably. As a sidenote on the bush dynasty, all you Nascar loving Bush fans realize that Prescott Bush (JR's grandpa) did the banking for the Nazi's in WWII, right? Read House of Bush, House of Saud to find out why the ambassador from Saudi Arabia, Prince Bandar has the nickname Bandar Bush.
All the plastics we use are made from Oil. Every tire uses 7 gallons of oil in it. All the fertilizers we use are made from natural gas. All the pesticides are made from Oil. Because we have raped our land, and it is nothing more than a sponge onto which we pour oil to make it arable again, without this production would drop from 130 bushels per acre down to 30 bushels per acre. Transportation of the food on the roads that take tremendous amounts of oil to build and maintain in trucks that burn oil to factories that burn oil to process the food and package it in plastic made from oil then shipped out in more oil burning trucks to McDonald's where we drive our oil burning SUV's through the drive thru and take it home and sit in front of a brainwashing device powered either by coal or natural gas, all so we don't have to conversate with our neighbors. It's an elegant Orwellian scheme really. Not only do we eat oil, we think it.
The fantasy is good for business, but folks, this way of life aint real.
Welcome to the desert of the real. Climate change, destruction of the biosphere, air pollution, water pollution, drained aquafirs, dead coral reefs, wiped out fisheries, no more rain forrests, overpopulation, massive trade deficit leading to more debt that will have to be paid off by your kids because you are an irresponsible fool, dollar collapse, housing bubble burst, pension plans gone, resource wars -iraq is but a prelude to what is coming-,diseases, and mass famine. Subsequent generations 100 generations down the line will hate us.
If you don't belive in the destruction of our environment to the point of not being able to sustain human life then I'll kindly point you to Peak Oil. The Saudi's have an expression for it. My father rode a camel, I drive a car, my son flies in a jet, his son will ride a camel. Peak Oil is going to reverse globalization, yah everyone knows there is plenty of the stuff left in the ground, the problem is oil production follows a bell curve, be it a single well, or a nation's production. After you extract 1/2 of the oil production declines, forever, every gallon of oil is harder to extract and of a lesser quality. Net energy (energy spent for energy returned) gets closer and closer to zero and when it becomes 1:1, the well is put out of production, that is why wells never really get sucke
How dare you suggest doing anything that might reduce the profits of Bush's friends in industry and reduce our dependence on Big Energy.
Report to the nearest Republican re-education center at once.
Hopelessly pedantic since 1963.