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Billions Face Risks From Climate Change
gollum123 writes with a link to a kind of grim BBC story. According to a report drawn up by 'hundreds of international environmental experts', billions of people face drought and famine, as well as an increase in natural disasters, as a result of climate change. Individuals in the poorest countries face the most danger, due to a lack of infrastructure and geographic location. "The scientific work reviewed by IPCC scientists includes more than 29,000 pieces of data on observed changes in physical and biological aspects of the natural world. Eighty-nine percent of these, it believes, are consistent with a warming world. Several delegations, including the US, Saudi Arabia, China and India, had asked for the final version to reflect less certainty than the draft."
People who lack this, don't exist. At least on this planet.
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
when technology advances, all boats rise!
Saint Gore is the patron saint of Environmentalists. If you pray hard enough, he will make an appearance. He appears before you in a cloud of carbon dioxide, his chubby (face) cheeks glow with pride and joy, and he will bless you and praise you for doing your part to fight the evil demons of Global Warming, the coming of the Heat Inferno on Planet Earth.
I can throw as many stones as I wish; my house is made of transparent aluminum.
Modern scientist's have been studying how this 100 million year old planet functions for literally decades now, so I am confident that they a complete and accurate understanding upon which to base their predictions. Sure they're only 50% accurate at predicting this weekend's weather, but still...
Global Warming has only negative side effects. You will go to hell for making statements to the contrary.
Bah!
Now we can put our Y2K supplies to good use.
I wonder if I use bold in my signature, people will notice my posts.
Or you could have people paint their roofs white and use lighter tar on the streets white instead of the pitch black crap (would make night driving better too I assume), etcetera, to send back some solar energy once it gets on earth. You could genetically engineer grass to be light/white instead of green, and be "viral" so that entire patches of normal grass would be taken over by the stuff. It should also be emo grass, so it can cut itself.
That is why the melting of the artic/antartic would be a big problem - that white ice/snow reflects energy back to space, when it gets smaller, it effectively increases the amount of energy we recieve (I guess the oceans get warmer) and makes the whole warming process go that much faster.
Anyway, a few trillion gallons of white paint would be easier to procure and distribute than sending mega mirrors up to space -- even if they are made of mylar or something similiar.
real estate prices say different, it will be "discounted" beachfront property, only 600k instead of a cool 1.6 mil, buy now! it's a steal! (scuba gear sold separately)
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Please tell us what wer'e supposed to believe then. The story keeps changing. I want to believe whatever the papers tell me "scientists say...", but what "scientists say..." keeps changing! Is the sea going to rise eight inches, eight feet or eight meters? Will it happen in one year, ten years or a century? Does global warming predict more hurricanes or fewer? Larger hurricanes or smaller? Will New York become a glacier or a desert?
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
the L5 society as I recall proposed a permanant orbiter at the L5 location. They used the name High Orbital Mini-Earth or, as they said: "H.O.M.E. on LeGrange"
- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
You're completly ignoring that the original argument was that there isn't enough room in the safe pockets of America (the tiny pieces of land with no floods, deserts, tornados, hurricanes, etc) to hold people. This has nothing to do with fitting the world's population into North America.
Not to mention that most people want to eat meat, which as tasty as it is is extremely energy inefficient and will require a lot more than 700 square meters of farmland per person.
Global warming isn't a sentient being that's going to be like "Hey wait a second! That's America! That's where Jesus likes to party!" and then leave America completly fine while trashing the rest of the world.
NOBODY EXPECTS THE ECO-INQUISITION!
Nobody expects the eco-inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless prophesy.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to saving the world.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.
Sience(sm) Facts:
Sometimes at night I imagine the darkness is filled with horrible things with too many teeth, like Julia Roberts.