Should I file Global Warming Docs with the Yettie, Y2K Bug & Tooth Fairy files?

Question

Do you believe we need Global warming. Can you think of another "issue/cause" that has united so many countries at the same time. So I guess we are all fighting a common enemy. (which is good that its not each other) Very cunning, Its seems like Independence Day but no aliens, and different actors.

Answer 1

Y2K, maybe.  The other two aren't outright scams.  P.T. Barnum would be proud of this generation's "artists".

Answer 2

Nope.  File it under relativity, quantum mechanics, etc.  Proven science.

As pointed out above, Y2K was a real problem that required thousands of programmers and billions of dollars to fix.  

Understanding that requires that you understand the facts of programming COBOL and two digit years.  Understanding global warming also involves understanding the facts.  You can find many of them here:

http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/f101.a...

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/sci...

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"

http://environment.newscientist.com/chan...

Answer 3

No you should file it with other well supported science that weak minded cranks can't handle, like smoking causes cancer, AIDS is the results of a virus, vaccines save lives, and evolution.

Answer 4

NO, We all can contribute in stopping  further degradation of resource. As somebody famously said: we have not inherited earth from our fathers , we borrowed it from our childrens.

Its a matter of conscious, use green products, waste little water. plant trees. use bio degradable products. support green initiatives. small thing which we can do. There are other bigger things which may not in our hand ,,but do our bit.

Answer 5

Yes, file it with the Y2K bug.  Both are real.

Fortunately, the Y2K bug was acknowledged and clearly recognized by people in my field in the early 80's, so there was more than sufficient time to adequately address the problem so it didn't cause any serious consequences.

Unfortunately, the AGW issue, while acknowledged and recognized by climate scientists, still hasn't gotten the attention needed to start addressing the issue.  The longer the procrastination continues, the probability of serious consequences grows.

Answer 6

I think you should put " a visit to Venice, Italy" on the file of things to do very soon, unless of course you wish to visit there in a submersible.

Answer 7

I think you mean "yeti."  Unless Yettie is another one of these steroid-inflated rap stars that are the black equivalent of Britney Spears, in which case your question makes very little sense.  Do you really have files on each of those topics?  Are you saying that in Independence Day, it was a bad thing that the world united to destroy the evil aliens?  If global warming were like an alien invasion, your phrasing makes it sound as if the U.S. should throw in with the aliens to avoid a one-world scenario, since that would mean domination by the UN even if we were able to destroy the aliens (who, based on their actions in the movie, must be a huge colony of the retarded kind of evil alien) through good old American pluck, luck, and a complete suspension of the laws of physics.  

Anyway, putting aside my problems interpreting your question, what is so devilishly clever about the global warming plot is that they even have the planet playing along.  So, yes, you personally should file Global Warming docs with Yettie, Y2K Bug, and Tooth Fairy files.  It will make alphabetizing your files a nightmare, but I'm guessing you don't really go back into them and revisit these things anyway so that's probably not a huge problem.  

I gave you five stars, a little paper doily with a smiley face on it, and a Taco Bell mega-Gordito for this question.

Answer 8

if Y2K was a myth why did corporations spend thousands of man hours rewriting code to get around it? to they like spending money on nothing?

Answer 9

I put mine next to the "1970's Ice Age" file.

Gengi..... Y2K is a perfect example of what enterprising programmers and the good old Media can do to s***w their fellow man.  Most CEO's know nothing about the workings of computers and.....with the urgings/alarms of the 'computer-literates'.....paid hundreds of millions of $$$$ to programmers to 'fix' the 'potential problem'.

AGW is the Y2K of the 2000's.

Answer 10

it goes in the fear/alarmism/scare tactics section along with religion and y2k.