Global Warming

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thread starter emokidd 01/11/07 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

plz take the time to read this... "In my view, climate change is the most severe problem that we are facing today -- more serious even than the threat of terrorism." With this warning to an international science meeting in February 2004, David A. King, Chief Scientific Advisor to the British Government, brought the issue of global warming into sharp focus. The World View of Global Warming project is documenting this change through science photography from the Arctic to Antarctica, from glaciers to the oceans, across all climate zones. Rapid climate change and its effects is fast becoming one of the prime events of the 21st century. It is real and it is accelerating across the globe. As the effects of this change combine with overpopulation and weather crises, climate disruptions will affect more people than does war. The 2005 average global temperature equaled (within several hundredths of a degree) the record warm year of 1998, according to meteorologists. 2002-4 were nearly as warm, and the 11 warmest years on record have all occurred since 1990. In response, our planet has been changing with warming winds and rising seas. At the poles and in mountains, ice is under fire and glaciers are receding. Down into the temperate zone, change is rearranging the boundaries of life. The plants and animals with whom we share the planet are adapting and moving -- some even going extinct -- because they have no choice. We six billion humans are being affected, too. Coastal towns are suffering from rising sea level, storms are getting stronger and 35,000 people died in European heat waves in 2003. However, we have choices to make to help correct and ameliorate global warming. This is a story of frightening scale and and great urgency that is just beginning to be told. Please go to Actions to see what you can do now. I began photographing climate change in 1999, about when scientists started to realize how great a change in temperatures is taking place in our time. Past earth temperatures left their mark in tree rings, glaciers and ancient lake and ocean sediments, and the record shows slowly decreasing temperatures over the last 2000 years. In that time there have been warm and cool periods, but nothing like the rise in temperatures in the past 150 years -- and no increase even close to the past 30. This research has created what has become the single most powerful icon of climate change, the so-called "hockey-stick" graph of temperatures. In 2005-6 it was subjected to intense re-analysis. Evidence of previous cool and warm periods has increased, but the rapid and sustained heat gain especially since the 1970s remains unparalleled in recent earth history. In general global temperatures have risen since the 19th century industrial revolution. There is little scientific question the reason is a steep increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide -- CO2 -- from human use of fossil fuels. Methane, ozone, other gases and dusts have also increased greatly. The mechanism o

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imogene 01/11/07 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

You forgot about this maybe: Set your air conditioner thermostat to 78�F or higher � health permitting � when you�re at home. And use your major appliances after 5:00 pm.

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whizzkid01 01/11/07 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Yes.

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JelizaRose 01/11/07 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

bump! EVERYONE should watch "An.Inconvenient.Truth" It's really happening n Bush was bsing craps about it's not real. We should smack his monkey faces in the water that was melted in noth pole which can sink thousands of ppl

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ali4z 01/11/07 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Climate changes have been happening on this globe for as long as it has been here. There have always been waves and now the trend is on its way upwards. I think people are over reacting, however it wouldn't hurt to keep this world clean. :D

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ricecase 01/11/07 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

how long does bush have left in office? like 2 years? i feel sorry for u americans im from australia and our prime minister isnt much better. he refuses to sign the kyoto protocol saying its got flaws, and that he will sign a new proposed agreement on greenhouse gas emmisions. SIGN THE FREAKING KYOTO PROTOCOL JOHN!

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ali4z 01/11/07 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Bet they will elect him next time as well. Lol.

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underscore 01/11/07 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

I don't plan on reading that.

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TechnoIvan 01/11/07 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

I couldnt read all of it but, it sounds like we will face the same destiny like in the movie Day after tommorow.

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Focinator88 01/11/07 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

omg 2 much text

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playakilla 01/11/07 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Global warming can only be blamed on one person..... NARUTO! lmao XD

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soj827 01/11/07 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

It took a while to read but it was informing, thanks.

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hectik 01/11/07 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

see its all a cycle and the earth goes thro cycles, we will go thro global warming than another form of ice age and the repeat. just a cycle like fads they will fade adn return.

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shadows05 01/11/07 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

EvERYONE JUST DON'T USE ELECTRICITY ALOT! (energy) Let's become those people that don't use electricity at all. Because, if they die because of us that wouldn't be too fair would it?

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ali4z 01/11/07 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

shadows05 said: "EvERYONE JUST DON'T USE ELECTRICITY ALOT! (energy) Let's become those people that don't use electricity at all. Because, if they die because of us that wouldn't be too fair would it?" Omg you hippie. I NEED MY COMPUTZOR! T-T

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