The World Is Growing Warmer

[winter_unfazed]

The world is growing warmer;
We know that for a fact.
The evidence is mounting,
Like thick books being stacked.

The weather charts have proven
To researchers' content,
That temperatures are rising
With no sign of relent.

Though some regions are cooling,
Or not changing at all,
The regions where this is the case
Are relatively small.

Statistics are available;
Read them with your own eyes!
Thermometers mean what they say,
And gauges tell no lies.

So heed not Mr. Limbaugh,
Or even Mr. Horner.
It is a settled, proven fact:
The world is growing warmer!



Jeffery Goss Jr. 21 September 2007.

[HOD]

Yep. it did the same thing at the end of the last ice age, and the ones before that.
Warmer, cooler, big cycles of things. Them pre-historic automobiles were real bad polluters, doncha-know.

[winter_unfazed]

It has NEVER been this warm before. Armadillos, for example, are appearing in Missouri now, in the past 15 years. There was previously no historical record of their being in the Ozarks, and they do not appear in the fossil record here either.

Jeffery

[redbrick]

Maybe not, but London, England DID host prehistoric hippoptami, and Antarctica carries fossil records of cycads and palms. BTW, even though the PA Game Commission states quite firmly that armadillos will never establish themselves here in PA, they're at a compete loss to explain the roadkilled "armored groundhog" that turned up in Tioga County (Northern Tier) Pennsylvania in '92!

[johno]

I think you are both correct.

[Orgarden]

Wasn't it that it is the natural cycle of the world to warm and cool, but not to this degree and so quickly? At least that was my understanding. I don't know, I just know that the older people I speak to in this area tell me there use to be A LOT more frogs during the spring and now you barely see them. They say frogs are a good canary in the coal mine.

[HOD]

no... Armadillos are not good swimmers. And the fossil record around my house shows this was a sea floor.

There were mammoths and saber tooths in South Dakota. And Los Angeles.

Hod.

[redbrick]

Originally Posted by Orgarden

I don't know, I just know that the older people I speak to in this area tell me there use to be A LOT more frogs during the spring and now you barely see them. They say frogs are a good canary in the coal mine.

Frogs are an excellent canary, your absolutely right about that. However, they're much more sensetive to pollution than they are to climate change. And yes, they are disappearing, but due directly to the toxins and pollutants that we're releasing, not because those pollutants are changing the climate.

[bunkie]

that's what i was thinking rb, stuff like acid rain.

orgarden, that's what i was thinking too. from what i understand, the earth is going through it's normal cycles of hot and cold, but at a very speeded up version due to man's industrial means.

[nordicnacho]

Carbon dioxide in earth's atmosphere is considered a trace gas, and is measured in parts per million. Current concentration levels average approximately 385 ppm, which represents a total of around 800 gigatons of carbon. Its concentration can vary considerably on a regional basis: in urban areas it is generally higher, and indoors can reach 10 times the atmospheric concentration.

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas; see greenhouse effect for more.

Due to human activities such as the combustion of fossil fuels and deforestation, the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide has increased by about 35% since the beginning of the age of industrialization.

Up to 40% of the gas emitted by a volcano during a subaerial volcanic eruption is carbon dioxide.[11] However, human activities currently release more than 130 times the amount of CO2 emitted by volcanoes. According to the best estimates, volcanoes release about 130-230 million tonnes (145-255 million tons) of CO2 into the atmosphere each year. Emissions of CO2 by human activities amount to about 27 billion tonnes per year (30 billion tons)[12]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_...ial_production


Im sure 27 billion tons of carbon has no effect on temperature. Bunch of left wing wackos who want ruin are economy.
Those idiots even blame coal for putting mercury in all our tuna all I can say it whats wrong with a little mercury. 28,000,000,000 tons seems like a big number but its really not I'll put my trust in GW and Mr. Cheney.

Both of them know alot more then these left wingers I mean dick worked at Haliburton they are like a Global warming expert. These groups are just idiots who know nothing

1 Statements by concurring organizations
1.1 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007
1.2 Joint science academies’ statement 2007
1.3 Joint science academies’ statement 2005
1.4 Joint science academies’ statement 2001
1.5 U.S. National Research Council, 2001
1.6 American Meteorological Society
1.7 American Geophysical Union
1.8 American Institute of Physics
1.9 American Astronomical Society
1.10 Federal Climate Change Science Program, 2006
1.11 American Association for the Advancement of Science
1.12 Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London
1.13 Geological Society of America
1.14 American Chemical Society
1.15 Engineers Australia (The Institution of Engineers Australia)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scienti...climate_change