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2005 Will Probably be Warmest on Record
Nilmat writes "A Washington Post Article notes that 2005 will probably have the highest mean global temperature of any year since the advent of systematic temperature records. At the moment, the mean temperature is about 0.75 degrees C above the global mean from 1950 to 1990, approximately .04 degrees higher than 1998, the year of the previous record. Only something dramatic, such as a major volcanic eruption, could cause enough cooling to miss setting a new record."
Your brazen obnoxicity gets me going like a rapist at a narcolepsy clinic.
"Massive flooding along costal areas "
Well of your un-substantiated claims lets look at this one.
http://nsidc.org/sotc/sea_level.html
So we are looking at 0.42mm a year, due to glacial melt. To reach the claimed 80 Meters of sea level rise that is bandied about for all the claims of coastal flooding it would take 190,000 years to reach that level, since your worried about warming to increase, let's halve that to 95,000 years.
EVERYONE RUN WE'RE GOING TO FLOOD, YOU ONLY HAVE 94,999 years, 11 MONTHS AND 364 DAYS LEFT!!!!!!!
Hell in 100 years we are going to have 4 CENTIMETERS RISE IN SEA LEVELS!!!!!!!!
I'm not worried about it. I expect we'll have evolved gills or wings or something by then, and I'm sure we'll run out of fossil fuels by then, unless Gold is right.
And to shrinking food supplies. Can I ask why food output has steadily increased during the supposed dangerous warming for the 20th century. Hint: Plants love CO2 and warmth, expect bumper crop report again this year, and as we go forward into the future.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
Despite doubts about whether or not purple ducks from pluto are about to invade, we still have the responsibility to prepare for it. Until we can be CERTAIN that we are not taking the risk of being defenseless against the alien purple ducks invasion, particularly given the haunting spector of them having red hot gamma laser photon canons, we need to proceed with caution. Even if it means we all have to live like Native Americans in teepees and burn buffalo dung for heat.
The probability of the even coming to fruition has got to be taken into account along with the damage to people in preventing it. Its reasonable to debate over what the risks are and what might be a reasonable action to take in light of the costs and benefits. But we don't just say, "I don't know but to be safe, lets send the economy back to the stone age."
Death may be a change for the better (heaven or somesuch), or it might be a change for the worse (an eternity of nothingness). Yet somehow, I don't want to die right now just because there's a possibility that I'll go somewhere better...