Thread: Is The Sky Falling ?

I live 6 ft. above sea level on a sandbar that is 3/4 of a mile from the tidal Sound to the Atlantic. I'm not worried. Of course I'm 66 and have told my kids not to expect to inherit the house. I have watched for many years, and I honestly believe that is is the natural cycle of weather that we are seeing. If I'm wrong, I'll also be right....the kids won't inherit a house near the beach!

I am warmed (no pun intended) by the number of people here who accept that climate change is man made at least to a greater or lesser degree.
I was really expecting to read a load of posts with people chuckling about leaving their cars running all day by accident after turning it on to warm up and other such stuff that I have read elsewhere.

Originally Posted by prodigy

I feel like the true reality is that we don't "know" anything. The earth is 4 billion years old and everything we as humans have experienced is literally a fraction of a blink of an eye. It is scary because there will be drastic loss of life and extinction of many of the oceans creatures in my lifetime. I sat in on a presentation about using natural plant remedies versus man made chemicals in medicine, and almost all of the prime ingredients come from the rainforest. They are so far destroyed that it is almost sickening to see how much was there to begin with and how little is left now. We are screwed...

They have been hacking away at the rain forest in the Amazon basin since at least the mid 1970s so it has been going on a long time. Jari project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It is a very fragile eco system that has not taken well to industrial use. Like you say we now are realizing the "benefits" of that folly.

Bob

There was a pretty much ignored study of tree ring going back beaucoup years. It shows a significant change in the ambient temperature of the atmosphere over a fairly long, apparently solar, cyclic period of about 1400 years.
https://books.google.com/books?id=0v...sun%3F&f=false
And this is a sub cycle of it with earth change factors going in..

Anything plus man's help is bound to be worth considering.
~Richard

Originally Posted by BobH

They have been hacking away at the rain forest in the Amazon basin since at least the mid 1970s so it has been going on a long time. Jari project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It is a very fragile eco system that has not taken well to industrial use. Like you say we now are realizing the "benefits" of that folly.

Bob

The hell of it is that 'we' (mankind) are still cutting it down. Where I live used to be the Everglades. You have to go west 15-20 miles to get to what is still the Everglades now. They are taking farmland and making housing developments out of it now.

If everyone pees in the pool pretty soon it is going to be like an unflushed toilet. To think that all of the greenhouse gases industry, autos, &c. belch out isn't going to have a negative effect is denial. It is like two and two not making four.

Not saying that adds up to global warming being 'all humankind's fault', but I doubt we are doing the situation much good.

No. It's nonsense they make up to fit their fact-less begotten theories. In the meantime, I'll just call it Fall Winter Spring and Summer.

50 % of the polar ice as melted in the past 25 yrs,Why? polar bears will no longer exsist in 25 yrs,Why?

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

50 % of the polar ice as melted in the past 25 yrs,Why? polar bears will no longer exsist in 25 yrs,Why?

absolute nonsense. the icecap is growing.

Originally Posted by Siguy

absolute nonsense. the icecap is growing.

I said Polar Ice,I:E Glaciars and the frozen seas in the north atlantic.

Follow the money

If the warming is NOT man-made then there is no money to be made, and no policies to be made..


Facts:

The earth is warming
There are too many people on the planet
People create pollution
Pollution is bad whether it is green house gasses or not
The earth has warmed and cooled before there were too many people, and we don't really know why



Not fact:

Global warming is from man's activities
If we cut back on green house gases warming will stop



Solution:

Less People



Simple really, everything else is just about money