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Posted by: STONERS 2 years, 8 months agoGlobal warming could cause severe food and water shortages for millions of people by 2100 and trigger a melt of polar ice that could keep ocean levels rising for centuries, a draft U.N. report shows.
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STONERS
March 13, 2007, 1:40 p.m.It said the poor were most at risk, for instance in sub-Saharan Africa and around deltas of major rivers in Asia.
The survey by the world's top climate scientists, due for release in Brussels on April 6, said climate change widely blamed on human activities was already under way with impacts ranging from melting glaciers to earlier than normal plant growth in spring.
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cleare
March 13, 2007, 3:26 p.m.i wish i could believe the same as the nay-sayers...that this is just a gargantuan hoax. but i can't.
to me, the evidence is overwhelming...kilimanjaro, glacier national monument, antarctic ice shelves, bleached coral reefs, disappearance of whole species of frogs & toads ...the list is enormous...
the evidence is also personal. every summer feels longer, hotter and more humid. the storms stronger, colder and generating more damage. the winters so mild my zone 7 plants are doing great in zone 6.
that's my agenda. i want rid of the mimosa that is hijacking my back yard. it should not survive here, but it is thriving. i want it dead. i want to shovel snow again.
what's your agenda, incredulous fools.
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Ciera-Marie
March 13, 2007, 3:45 p.m.Add to this the strange illness/disease/whatever it is that is killing the bees. Whatever it is has scientists very, very worried. Are they dying because of global warming? They don't know yet.
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Harddrive
March 13, 2007, 4:26 p.m.Yaaah!!!! UN probably right because this corrupt organization will be first on line to die.
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cleare
March 13, 2007, 4:39 p.m.fleas...ask any vet. and they are getting harder to control. vermin love heat.
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joeblowe
March 13, 2007, 4:44 p.m.Ladies and Gentlemen: CLIMATE: 1. the composite or generally prevailing weather conditions of a region, as temperature, air pressure, humidity, precipitation, sunshine, cloudiness, and winds, throughout the year, averaged over a series of years. AVERAGED OVER A SERIES OF YEARS. Let's say...oh, how about 2000? How many here think that ANY climatological model currently in existence can predict with any reasonable degree of accuracy what the CLIMATE in any particular region will be over that span. Trick question. Barring some catastrophic event - say another HUGE volcanic explosion - it's not that hard. The CLIMATE in pretty much every region of the earth is very similar to what it was 2000 years ago. Equatorial areas were hot, temperate areas were temperate, polar areas were cold. Minor changes over the entire planet HAVE occurred. Even something that we stupid humans would consider pretty major is, in fact, MINOR in the overall universal scope of things.
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winstonsmithredux
March 13, 2007, 4:49 p.m.Hey, kids, here's a great little science experiment you can try at home!
Starting tomorrow, ask your mom to bake some brownies every day, and you eat just enough to gain, say, one ounce per day. Keep telling your friends that your body mass sooooo huge that the steadily growing wieght is not a problem...and don't forget to call them morons, okay?
Then, one day soon, leave your cardiac guy a note to post your results on here, so we are all able to mourn your passing in some appropriate manner. Thanks.
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hoppy
March 13, 2007, 4:54 p.m.That's 93 years away. Hey Al..Two things could happen; First people are going to get their fill of your deceptive lies,or the second coming will have came and went. Sorry Al,I consider it an insult to even think of believing your lies.
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contrast
March 13, 2007, 5:03 p.m.IM not saying global warming is a hoax. I am saying that I dont really know if humans can tell the difference between man made climate shift and normal climate shift. Think about it 50,000 years ago we had an ice age. Humans have only been around as we are for what 5,000? We have existed for the period of the blink of an eye and claim to know this world's habits and cycles? a little pompous isnt it? Remember pangea? LOTS of water almost no land. And all the TONS of factories the dinosaurs built to make that happen. I remember thats why I killed all the dinosaurs...
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joeblowe
March 13, 2007, 5:12 p.m.I think I see the problem here. There are SOME people who think that humans are important in some way. Actually, we know from the behavior of the world at large with respect to the genocides that seem to keep happening in Africa that this is NOT the case. Think of us humans as sort of a yeast colony, and the earth as a bottle of grape juice. As we know, a yeast colony will keep replicating and throwing off waste product (ethanol, in this example) until all the food is gone, and then they die. So -- eventually we can expect the Earth to be one giant cocktail. {8>D)=
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NelsonR
March 13, 2007, 5:44 p.m.I am perplexed now, grapes, CO2 and breweries, I'm lost. Is global warming occuring for Republican conservatives, hell no. Jesus is looking out for them. They are so righteous they do not need to purchase toilet tissue.
They are all knowing and seeing, they are truely the pious.
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NelsonR
March 13, 2007, 6:21 p.m.Whatever2006 - My central theme is that the evangelicals and Conservative Republicans alike, Newt, Rush, Haggard and the rest espouse one thing and by hypocrisy do another. You would prevail on a women to not have a choice of having a child since your godly right is correct. She should be made to obey your thoughts. To me, thats ludicrous.
Most posters that disavow global warming are not liberal but overwhelmingly Republican conservatives, not why would that be? Is it that their bottom line will be affected with conservation. Do Republican led corporations desire conservation, absolutely Not. Is your leader, Bush willing to sit and disuss the merit or cons with world leaders concerning global warming, Not.
Now I wonder where my attitudes and thoughts origionate from concerning Republican conservatives?
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Countryhick
March 13, 2007, 6:59 p.m.I love it when the Gullible Warning Idiots and Morons gather in one place at least we know what they are up to .
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THOMNH62
March 13, 2007, 7:25 p.m.this is great, in less than ten years I will have beach front property, go baby.
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THOMNH62
March 13, 2007, 7:28 p.m.NelsonR, if sitting with global leaders means something like the Kieoto treaty then the answer is no, after a recent trip to china the only thing more abvious than the commies is the smog, but here in the US we should start buying carbon credits from Al Gore's company, your a moron.
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cleare
March 13, 2007, 7:47 p.m.all the nay-sayers seem concerned with is slamming al bore. well i don't hate him as you do, but i do think he's a bit of a yawn. and i get that he thinks a little too much of himself (of course he did nearly get elected president of the usa...oh...i forget we live in the land of "no points for second place".) doesn't mean he's wrong though.
just watched an inconvient truth twice over the last 3 days and it's a bit too much bore and too little demonstration of people already impacted. like pacific islanders who live only inches above sea level looking to relocate...you know make it about people, not the near president.
get mr. bore out of the way maybe then you disbelivers might actually recognize a fact when it hits you in the face.
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Meimei53
March 13, 2007, 8 p.m.Yeah, yeah, and 30 years ago we were warned that by 2000 there would be massive famines and starvations bec of overpopulation. Now they're paying people in France to have babies and in China there aren't enough eligible women for the men to marry. There IS no overpopulation problem. And the climate changes happen. We can dirty our own areas, make things rough on ourselves, but cities are cleaner now than ever and there is nothing we can do that would destroy the earth. What big egos to think mankind could destroy this planet. What will be will be, quit stressing over it and enjoy the weather.
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agentX
March 13, 2007, 8:28 p.m.This isn't an issue that just affects the 3rd world. Here in Killa Kali (California) our bees are dying off in large numbers. They are not able to pollinate our crops and we stand to lose 14 billion, not to mention a good chunk of food. Beekeepers suspect that climate change and other issues are killing off the wildflowers that they prefer to use pollen from.
Contrary to popular belief, we are not an island unto ourselves.
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Dionys
March 13, 2007, 8:50 p.m.Hey. At least when the world starts dying there will be plenty of previously wealthy Republicans fattened by their wealth for the poor to eat.
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CovalentBond
March 14, 2007, 12:35 a.m.Geologists have documented age upon age of climate swings, and some charge Mr. Gore with ignoring such rhythms.
"Nowhere does Mr. Gore tell his audience that all of the phenomena that he describes fall within the natural range of environmental change on our planet," Robert M. Carter, a marine geologist at James Cook University in Australia, said in a September blog. "Nor does he present any evidence that climate during the 20th century departed discernibly from its historical pattern of constant change."
In October, Dr. Easterbrook made similar points at the geological society meeting in Philadelphia. He hotly disputed Mr. Gore's claim that "our civilization has never experienced any environmental shift remotely similar to this" threatened change.
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jordan11
March 14, 2007, 1:16 a.m.KingOfTruth: The verola mite has been a problem for a long while, this is true. But something else is killing bees, and they don't know what it is. Beekeepers from 22 states have reported loses up to 80%, and not from the mite. I've tried to see if there are genetically modified crops in the same regions as the loss, but it's impossible. The FDA is protecting those growers, so that we can't know which one's are 'natural', and which are modified.
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truthiness
March 14, 2007, 1:37 a.m.I'm an advocate that humans are accelrating the natural warming/cooling cycle at a rate that is dangerous to the survival of our specious.
however,
in the article it says that the glaciers in the himalayas are melting and as a result the surrounding people will be without water soon...doesn't that seem oxymoronic. sure they rely on those glaciers to feed their rivers,etc. but a) its not going to melt of in 5 years, and
b) a little forethought and you could create a damn to save that meltoff, and
c) regardless of what we're adding to the cycle, it is a natural cycle and we're not stopping the glaciers from melting folks...maybe we can slow them down if we stop burning fossil fuels...
which we should do anyway to breathe clean air and be economically independent.
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