1) When did the current warming trend start?
2) Is this the hottest the Earth's ever been?
Answers:
1) No. The current warming trend started 100,000 years ago (long before the industrial revolution and CFCs).
2) No. The hottest the Earth has ever been was about 55,000,000 years ago (near the end of the Eocene era).
Humans are not entirely responsible for global warming. To say that we are is fearmongering.
This is the kind of crap the Mafia used to do. It's a protection racket.
"Hey, maybe youz should pay me fifty bucks, so's that nothing happens to yours QuickBooks file."
I was working as an usher at the AMC theater in Burbank, California (back in 1989) when I ran into him.
Even though I was a "nobody", he spent quite a bit of time talking to me about one of my favorite things: Star Trek.:)
I'm sure the talk involved nothing new for him, but he humored me anyway. He displayed none of the "I'm an actor, so I'm better than you" mentality, which seems so common among actors.
An all-around nice guy!
Here are three questions to ponder regarding Global Warming:
1. When did the current trend of warming start?
2. Is this the hottest that the Earth has ever been?
3. Will the Earth ever cool down?
The answers, as I understand them:
1. 10,000 years ago...at the end of the last ice age.
2. The Earth has been previously warm enough to sustain a forest in Antarctica. Which it is not currently warm enough to do now. Which would mean that the Earth has been warmer.
3. The Earth has had many ice ages. It only stands to reason that there will be another. Which would require the Earth to cool down.
I suppose a final question is in order: are humans causing global warming?
Most of the "proof" I've seen of this is: Look, it's getting warming, so humans must be the cause!
I've never seen any study supporting global warming that dried to differentiate the natural warming trend and that which may be caused by humans.
Every time I go to a movie I spend 25 minutes watching trailers and commericals. Depending on the movie, that's a quarter to a third of the length of feature film!
That is the reason that I go to the theaters less often to watch movies. Advertisers and theater owners know that movie-goers will arrive early so that they can get the seat that they want and know they'll have them trapped to watch their adverts.
Well, guess what? I'm not trapped. This isn't the 20th century and I have alternatives. I no longer have to wait months or even a year to get the movie on cable or DVD.
Time marches on and like so many other industries (RIAA) they simply refuse to understand this. Well, we'll miss you...or not.
From TFA:
"We know the 17 to 34 audience, the male audience, is elusive and quite difficult to reach through traditional broadcast.... It is incumbent upon us to find ways to reach them," says Gerry Rich, president of world-wide marketing for Paramount Pictures.
That's like trying to cut down a forest so that you may better find the dear that you are hunting.
you lose it. It's a universal truth for humans.
Look into the studies done on the quality and length of life after people retire.
And for all you pervs out there, yes, this applies to your shlong as well. Not using it can lead to an enlarged prostate and possibly prostate cancer.
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That's easy. It'll weight 1/6 of what it does on Earth.
Uh, if you'll excuse me, I need to go hide my D&D Player's Handbook. Yeah, it's first edition, but you can't be too careful, I guess.
I read 'NH' and my first thought was, "I don't recognize that element!"
1) When did the current warming trend start?
2) Is this the hottest the Earth's ever been?
Answers:
1) No. The current warming trend started 100,000 years ago (long before the industrial revolution and CFCs).
2) No. The hottest the Earth has ever been was about 55,000,000 years ago (near the end of the Eocene era).
Humans are not entirely responsible for global warming. To say that we are is fearmongering.
Your use of "some scientists" is a brilliant display of weasel words.
It's a trap!
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I'm not sure what would have been worse, accidentally shooting his friend while hunting or hunting birds with a 12 gauge. :)
This is the kind of crap the Mafia used to do. It's a protection racket. "Hey, maybe youz should pay me fifty bucks, so's that nothing happens to yours QuickBooks file."
Fire!
I'm not sure I want to refer to myself as a SAP...
I was working as an usher at the AMC theater in Burbank, California (back in 1989) when I ran into him. Even though I was a "nobody", he spent quite a bit of time talking to me about one of my favorite things: Star Trek. :)
I'm sure the talk involved nothing new for him, but he humored me anyway. He displayed none of the "I'm an actor, so I'm better than you" mentality, which seems so common among actors.
An all-around nice guy!
'"annoying" phase to the "just plain stupid" phase'
Go to Ludicrous speed...I'm mean, reporting!
Here are three questions to ponder regarding Global Warming:
1. When did the current trend of warming start?
2. Is this the hottest that the Earth has ever been?
3. Will the Earth ever cool down?
The answers, as I understand them:
1. 10,000 years ago...at the end of the last ice age.
2. The Earth has been previously warm enough to sustain a forest in Antarctica. Which it is not currently warm enough to do now. Which would mean that the Earth has been warmer.
3. The Earth has had many ice ages. It only stands to reason that there will be another. Which would require the Earth to cool down.
I suppose a final question is in order: are humans causing global warming?
Most of the "proof" I've seen of this is: Look, it's getting warming, so humans must be the cause!
I've never seen any study supporting global warming that dried to differentiate the natural warming trend and that which may be caused by humans.
They've been using Humans and rats
Hah!
If you click on the Start Image -> Popular Feeds -> Staff Picks, you'll find a like to Slashdot.
Kinda cool.
This article could have better timed.
Come to think of it, it was perfectly timed...
Every time I go to a movie I spend 25 minutes watching trailers and commericals. Depending on the movie, that's a quarter to a third of the length of feature film!
... It is incumbent upon us to find ways to reach them," says Gerry Rich, president of world-wide marketing for Paramount Pictures.
That is the reason that I go to the theaters less often to watch movies. Advertisers and theater owners know that movie-goers will arrive early so that they can get the seat that they want and know they'll have them trapped to watch their adverts.
Well, guess what? I'm not trapped. This isn't the 20th century and I have alternatives. I no longer have to wait months or even a year to get the movie on cable or DVD.
Time marches on and like so many other industries (RIAA) they simply refuse to understand this. Well, we'll miss you...or not.
From TFA:
"We know the 17 to 34 audience, the male audience, is elusive and quite difficult to reach through traditional broadcast.
That's like trying to cut down a forest so that you may better find the dear that you are hunting.
Starships scream?
that they focusing on the important issues, like copyright infringement and not the child sex trade.
This the kind of shit that happens when a corporations pocket book means more than the people that government was meant to server.
Best. Outsell. Ever.
it's just that it started 10,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, and not just 50 years ago.
Everyone knows that it's the global warming caused by industrialization...that was started at the end of the last ice age.
you lose it. It's a universal truth for humans. Look into the studies done on the quality and length of life after people retire. And for all you pervs out there, yes, this applies to your shlong as well. Not using it can lead to an enlarged prostate and possibly prostate cancer.
Someone's getting their hand chopped off.