How many 1000`S OF years has GLOBLA WARMING BEEN GOING ON AND WE ARE ALL STILL HERE?

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How many 1000`S OF years has GLOBLA WARMING BEEN GOING ON AND WE ARE ALL STILL HERE?

Answer 1

is all c**p

Answer 2

I guess thats true, but what about our future generations? are just hoping battle star galactica becomes a thing of the future for real?

Answer 3

That's like jumping off a 100 story building, and saying at the 50th floor - I'm still fine.  We're starting to see the impacts, earlier springs, ecological disruptions, melting ice, higher frequency of severe storms.

If we wait until things get really bad, we'll have many years of really bad problems before we can turn this around.  It won't be fun.

Answer 4

Nobody ever said that global warming would lead to our extinction.

Answer 5

the natural cycles have caused extinction before,and will again...man's ego leads him to believe himself invincible,but increases in natural disaster fatalities prove otherwise...

Answer 6

It's not us who are messing with the weather and climate.  All they have to do is to stop their weather/climate modification schemes and we'd have normal weather and climate again!  

"Weather-modification, according to the US Air Force document AF 2025 Final Report, ‘offers the war fighter a wide range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary’, capabilities, it says, extend to the triggering of floods, hurricanes, droughts and earthquakes: ‘Weather modification will become a part of domestic and international security and could be done unilaterally… It could have offensive and defensive applications and even be used for deterrence purposes. The ability to generate precipitation, fog and storms on earth or to modify space weather… and the production of artificial weather all are a part of an integrated set of [military] technologies.’"

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?c...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Mod...

Smaller farmers all over the world are going into debt and losing their farms to large agribusinesses because of drought and because some were conned into buying subsidized GM seeds that were created to have crops self-destruct within a short period of time.

http://www.non-gm-farmers.com/

""Terminator" seed controversy

Main article: Terminator Technology

In June 2007, Monsanto acquired Delta & Pine Land Company, a company that had been involved with a seed technology nicknamed "Terminator", which produces plants that produce sterile seed to prevent farmers from replanting their crop's seed, rather than purchasing the seed from Monsanto for every planting. In recent years, widespread opposition from environmental organizations and farmer associations has grown, mainly out of the concerns that these seeds increase farmers' dependency on seed suppliers (having to buy these each year for seeding new crops). However, Monsanto had publicly pledged not to commercialise terminator technology. [15]"

--Wikipedia (on Monsanto)

Answer 7

no no no!

it hasnt been on for thousands o yrs!

its started relatively recently....in the early 20th century!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

n well...........the problem is...we did this in 100 yrs!

Answer 8

The earth operates in Cycles.

IPC want to scare people.

It both been cooler and warm on the planet than today.

From the 1345 to 1850 the planet cooled.  (mini ice age)  The planet has been warming but most of the warming occurred between 1850 -1930.   Even now since 1998 there not been the level of warming that was expected.

2007 was to be the warmest year around the world but it was very cool.

We live on a complex planet and are really now just now getting  an idea of all the interactions.  

Now it looks like we are entering a 10 year cool period.

Data has to be updated it was thought the late 90 were warmest however it turns out it was the 1930s.

Now we are finding that ocean currents are causing cooling.  They were not put into the computer models.

We are finding evidence of mines and people living in a warming  Greenland.

In an earlier column this week detailed the work of a volunteer team to assess problems with US temperature data used for climate modeling. One of these people is Steve McIntyre, who operates the site climateaudit.org. While inspecting historical temperature graphs, he noticed a strange discontinuity, or "jump" in many locations, all occurring around the time of January, 2000.  

These graphs were created by NASA's Reto Ruedy and James Hansen (who shot to fame when he accused the administration of trying to censor his views on climate change). Hansen refused to provide McKintyre with the algorithm used to generate graph data, so McKintyre reverse-engineered it. The result appeared to be a Y2K bug in the handling of the raw data.

McKintyre notified the pair of the bug; Ruedy replied and acknowledged the problem as an "oversight" that would be fixed in the next data refresh.

NASA has now silently released corrected figures, and the changes are truly astounding. The warmest year on record is now 1934. 1998 (long trumpeted by the media as record-breaking) moves to second place.  1921 takes third. In fact, 5 of the 10 warmest years on record now all occur before World War II.  Anthony Watts has put the new data in chart form, along with a more detailed summary of the events.  

The original Nature article's lead author, Leibniz Institute's Noel Keenlyside, acknowledged on Friday that recent data showed much more warming that he had forecast through 2007, but stood by a "stabilization" of temperatures from 2005-2015.

He blamed shifts in ocean currents and temperatures, thought also to be the cause of the plateau in temperatures since 1998.

Gary Yohe, climate scientist at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, said that opponents of tougher action on global warming in the United States had seized on the Nature report as a sign that climate change was slowing down.

Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist", said a slowdown in warming might help governments focus on smarter, long-term solutions rather than being panicked into action.

Answer 9

Top 11 Warmest Years On Record Have All Been In Last 13 Years

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...

ScienceDaily (Dec. 13, 2007) — The decade of 1998-2007 is the warmest on record, according to data sources obtained by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The global mean surface temperature for 2007 is currently estimated at 0.41°C/0.74°F above the 1961-1990 annual average of 14.00°C/57.20°F...

...Since the start of the 20th century, the global average surface temperature has risen by 0.74°C. But this rise has not been continuous. The linear warming trend over the last 50 years (0.13°C per decade) is nearly twice that for the last 100 years...

...2007 global temperatures have been averaged separately for both hemispheres. Surface temperatures for the northern hemisphere are likely to be the second warmest on record, at 0.63°C above the 30-year mean (1961-90) of 14.6°C/58.3°F. The southern hemisphere temperature is 0.20°C higher than the 30-year average of 13.4°C/56.1°F, making it the ninth warmest in the instrumental record since 1850.

January 2007 was the warmest January in the global average temperature record at 12.7°C/54.9°F, compared to the 1961-1990 January long-term average of 12.1°C/53.8°F...

Global 10 Warmest Years Mean Global temperature (°C) (anomaly with respect to 1961-1990)

   1. 1998 0.52

   2. 2005 0.48

   3. 2003 0.46

   4. 2002 0.46

   5. 2004 0.43

   6. 2006 0.42

   7. 2007(Jan-Nov) 0.41

   8. 2001 0.40

   9. 1997 0.36

  10. 1995 0.28

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...

Answer 10

we are actually in a cooling cycle that is nearing its end

Answer 11

You almost sound as if you're bragging!  We're using old Ma Nature as a punching bag and she's still standing.

It's the final round, and we've got a chance to score some points and keep ourselves in the match.  To continue the boxing analogy, we can stand in the corner with our hands up and take the punches, or we can go on the assault and knock back our opponent.  But we've definitely got a fight on our hands.  Whether you want to call it global climate change, or environmental damage, or planetary negligence, we've managed in the space of a few hundred years to do thousands of years worth of damage.

Are you sitting passively in the audience, watching the fight?  Are you the ref?  Everyone's a player in this thing.  If we win the fight, we're still here as we want to be.  If we lose, we can never recoup what's been lost.  Future generations will forever be engaged in damage control, and will probably be unable to enjoy the kind of growth that defines civilization as we know it.

Answer 12

exactly lol.

omg global warming we're all gonna die in two years ahhh!

geez people get a grip

Answer 13

1000's of years? The industrial revolution wasn't until the 17th century buddy....

Answer 14

The earth goes through cycles. As you may heard of, there was the Ice Age. Everything goes through a colder time and most of the northern hemisphere froze. Also, in the 40's-60's it was colder than normal. Yes, it is true that our ozone layer is being damaged by the fuel that we use but we cant do much about it because people won't change habits. As for now, we are having the hotter global warming as you can see. Within 50 years+ itll be cold again.

Answer 15

Because it's us that are causing the global warming with new inventions like cars.

Answer 16

As people have already pointed out the current warming trend began with the industrial revolution, and what is being said is that our lifestyles are unsustainable and will cause significant damage, not that we will all die.

Now, the earths atmosphere and climate have changed dramatically over time. But the geological record shows how mass extinction accompanies dramatic changes in climate.

Then we have ice ages and warm periods, these are cyclical and linked to changes in the earths movements. Again these are not good for the existing range of species, look at ice age animals, the animals that thrived then do not thrive now (many are extinct).

Yes people will probably survive, but if no-one does anything, survive to live in what sort of world?

Answer 17

Global warming doesn't exist.

Answer 18

Your question needs definition.

What do you mean by global warming?

If you mean the greenhouse effect then that has been around since before life itself.

Global warming as a result of human activity has only existed since the start of the industrial revolution in Europe, particularly the United Kingdom.

And yes we are all still here?