Just Curious

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally posted by sjwalter@Oct 14 2004, 09:38 PM
Global Climate Change? You mean 3 Degree's Fahranheit over the next.....what....100 years? To me its all BS and besides the liberals have nothing better to do.

I'm no scientist so maybe I shouldn't get into this, but "3 degrees in a hundred years is nothing" is just plain wrong.

Some easily understood effects are a shorter ski season and a longer, more intense forest-fire season. Floods and fires, melted glaciers, extinct animals

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/...warming13.html

If that doesn't convince you, I just might be able to rustle up one or two other websites.

You can argue that humans aren't causing it to happen (and probably lose), but everyone is in agreement that 3 degrees is pretty drastic and it's going to have serious consequences.

BTW, I would guess that scientists are split 50/50 along the conservative/liberal lines.

[Mike F]

Originally posted by RougeUnderoos+Oct 15 2004, 01:12 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (RougeUnderoos @ Oct 15 2004, 01:12 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-sjwalter@Oct 14 2004, 09:38 PM
Global Climate Change? You mean 3 Degree's Fahranheit over the next.....what....100 years? To me its all BS and besides the liberals have nothing better to do.

I'm no scientist so maybe I shouldn't get into this, but "3 degrees in a hundred years is nothing" is just plain wrong.

You can argue that humans aren't causing it to happen (and probably lose), but everyone is in agreement that 3 degrees is pretty drastic and it's going to have serious consequences.
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At the height (depth?) of the last great ice age the average temperature of the earth was "only" 6 degrees cooler.

It doesn't take much.