NEWS: Confessions of a Global Warming Skeptic

Subrosa said:
I like how "studying geochemistry at uni" is now equivalent to the knowledge base of huge, vast majority of climate change scientists.

Oh, it was a proper British Uni? Oh REALLY?! Well then. Let's gas up the Hummer and burn down a rainforest.

Zarth said:

Brought to you by the guy who thinks that in "a few years" Great Britain as a state will dissolve into something like "Northern Pakistan" and yet also that the world would be better off with a restored British Empire - after all, it's not like the first one has created any lasting problems in world relations.

Uptight made more sense than this guy.

joker_c said:
Mucci made more sense than that guy.

Zarth said:

Pleae be nice!

Zarth said:

Pleae be nice!

Zarth said:
I miss the Mooch. His final meltdown notwithstanding, he was always so nice. You don't get that anymore.

mingol said:

I agree. I always really liked him, despite my despair over his spelling and grammar and my disagreement with most of his posts.

joker_c said:
I missed the final meltdown, I was busy with work. But yes, he was nice.

wildswan said:
You guys must be talking about a different Mucci. The Mucci I knew took part in a hate crime. I mean, he was kinda entertaining and all, but that was a matter of style and not substance.

wildswan said:
I prefer an asshole with a true heart of gold any day.

Zarth said: Bite me.

wildswan said:

Oh, I'll bite you alright.

Zarth said:

Pleae be nice!

I miss the Mooch. His final meltdown notwithstanding, he was always so nice. You don't get that anymore.

Zarth said:

I don't think anyone's disputing the awfulness of the substance of his views.

therisen said:
A fewwwwwww simple facts, like the amount of CO2 produced by man in miniscule compared to the overall output of CO2 into the atmosphere. For CO2 to have any significant effect on climate, you'd need a global increase of over 100% - that my friends is a lot of CO2, far more than mere man could ever hope to produce.

Another thing that people tend to forget is that CO2 is a plants favourite gas to breath. Yes, plants love CO2. The more CO2 in the atmosphere, the more lovely trees and slimy algae we get. Which isn't a bad thing considering plants put O2 back into the atmosphere for us animals to breath. It's a beautiful thing.

How about another simple fact. Wind the clock back a few hundred million years and you'll find that the Earth's atmosphere had a much higher O2 content, which is why instects were much bigger back then. Big insects? WTF are you on about....well, it's a well known biological nugget that insect size is restricted by the amount of O2 in the atmosphere. It's all due to the way they breath, but you can go and find out for yourselves as listening to a has-been politician jumping on a convenient bandwagon is bound to fill your brains with bullshit.

Lets have a quick poke at 'renewable energy sources' shall we. First of all, what's renewable about them? I don't know, I guess 'renewable' is just one of those wankwords to make it sound great.

Wind power is a great idea, but has anyone considered the effects it would have on climate. I'm serious here...Stick enough big fekkin windmills out there and the 'wind' is going to lose some of it's energy. Has anyone done any research about what happens when you take energy away from the weather? It will have a knock on effect.

Same with wave or tidal generators, you start sucking energy from the waves or tide and your whole coastal ecosystem will change.

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Not that it matters of course because whilst CO2 is a greenhouse gas, it's a product of climate change rather than an influence on climate change.

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If you still think that CO2 is a cause of climate change (and hey, it's not like climate change is new to this planet, it's been going on long before us shaved apes arrived) and want to make a difference, there are several things you can do.

Ask yourself this, who was responsible for the last ICE AGE (and no, not the fucking movie)? Like the weather everyday, the Earth's climate has swung from one extreme to another thousands of times. Just because we happen to be around when things look to be getting a bit warmer over the last few years (and a few hundred years is a drop in the ocean in geological times, it really is insignificant) doesn't mean that we have to be so arrogant and presume that it's our doing. A couple of volcanic eruptions around the globe will piss about with the atmosphere more than man can......

Zarth said:
It was pretty spectacular.

Of course, when the next US city gets destroyed, everyone will be shocked, and we'll be subjected to endless weeks of "how could we ever have seen it coming" and "well we don't know conclusively that global warming is related" in the media, with nothing but excuse after excuse, all because driving something else and using a different kind of electricity is soooo haaaard.

freshprncebelair said:

You forgot the next part where people reflect on the damage that has been done, look at what got them there, and say "Fuck it, the OC is on", and then throw another bag of coal on the fire.

People don't care unless there are dire consequences in the immediate future. It's more likely we will do something to cool off the Earth (like artificially cut solar transmission or vent the heat to space) than actually cut back on emissions

traceelement said:
Funny how during the course of my university studies (BSc: earth science) at a "proper" Australian university I have come to a conclusion that is quite the opposite of therisen in regards to global warming.

Pick up any first year text book on climatology and you will see very quickly that man made features such as "urban heat islands" have an affect on global climate and they didn't just spring up out of nowhere. so saying man made climate change is bollocks .. isn't quite true.

Zarth said:
Or maybe proper Australian universities just don't smartify you as much as proper British "Uni"s. I mean, they don't teach you how to spell "few" with seven w's, do they? Huh? Do they?

Zarth said:

Or maybe proper Australian universities just don't smartify you as much as proper British "Uni"s. I mean, they don't teach you how to spell "few" with seven w's, do they? Huh? Do they?

Didn't think so.