do you think global warming will bring the world together and reduce conflict?

[bignateyk]

clearly youve never seen water world...

 

[IronWing]

We'll wrestle or the last icecube like a bunch of hairless chipmonks.

 

[Mucho]

Originally posted by: bignateyk
clearly youve never seen water world...

BTW, was it the movie Waterworld that gave impetus to this Global Warming thing?

 

[erub]

aieeeeeeeeeeeeee

you really think the kids in ____ (insert western hating Islamic nation here) learn about global warming, or rather that they care? What about the majority of Africa?

 

[irishScott]

Only when it becomes self-evident (ie the beaches start disappearing) and by then it will be too late.

Kinda like Hitler. He could've been stopped long before WWII, but people were pussies and didn't give a fvck about the warning signs until he took over Germany and invaded Poland.
'Cept for a few people (read: Churchill) but they didn't get any power until the sh!t started to fly.

 

[BMdoobieW]

No, and this needs a pole.

 

[Muse]

Only if it becomes a clear crisis.

 

[Atheus]

Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
Global warming is not a fact in fact global warming is a urban myth.

LOL.

 

[toolboxolio]

Originally posted by: KLin

Originally posted by: clickynext
Bring the world together? Only if it melts so much snow that it reduces the amount of land available...

Then maybe a group of thugs can take over a oil barge, and we get half-fish/half-men looking for land, and jeanne tripplehorn bares it all again :thumbsup:.

Again, the best movie ever devised.

Even surpasses "The Postman" for best movie of the universe for 10+ years.

 

[Mrfrog840]

it is already too late. The weather is turning crazy

 

[IGBT]

Originally posted by: jjones
Only an imminent colision with a planet-killing asteroid could hope to achieve what you suggest.

..and that's comming. Lots of flying junk out there. Need only look at the moon for evidence of cosmic calamity in our own neighborhood.

 

[clamum]

Hell no. I think about the only thing that'll get our dumbasses to unite would be a huge alien invasion.

 

[killface]

Originally posted by: 0
Climate change is inevitable.

Global Warming is a political, not scientific based idea.

Wrong.
Also, I'm sick of this "climate change" crap. It's global warming. "Climate change" is a term devised by Frank Lutz to try to soften the language a bit.

 

[thecrecarc]

Originally posted by: killface

Originally posted by: 0
Climate change is inevitable.

Global Warming is a political, not scientific based idea.

Wrong.
Also, I'm sick of this "climate change" crap. It's global warming. "Climate change" is a term devised by Frank Lutz to try to soften the language a bit.

Climate change is a change in the climate.

Global warming is the incorrect and wrong theory that human are CAUSING the change in climate.

 

[killface]

Originally posted by: thecrecarc

Originally posted by: killface

Originally posted by: 0
Climate change is inevitable.

Global Warming is a political, not scientific based idea.

Wrong.
Also, I'm sick of this "climate change" crap. It's global warming. "Climate change" is a term devised by Frank Lutz to try to soften the language a bit.

Climate change is a change in the climate.

Global warming is the incorrect and wrong theory that human are CAUSING the change in climate.

What? Global warming is just that. The globe is warming. There is no blame implied or otherwise placed on humans.

 

[MustangSVT]

nope. even if we lived in a perfect place we will find ways to do the same things that we do.

 

[Atheus]

Originally posted by: thecrecarc
Global warming is the incorrect and wrong theory that human are CAUSING the change in climate.

Incorrect and wrong, wow, that's pretty convincing... oh wait it isn't... because you haven't actually explained why you think that. No one with your opinion ever does really.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: jjones
Only an imminent colision with a planet-killing asteroid could hope to achieve what you suggest.

How imminent? Might-hit-in-50-years imminent, or "I can see it in broad daylight, it's going to hit tomorrow" imminent?

In the former, the "might hit" - we don't do anything about it, and hope that the silly little doomsday scientists are wrong with their trite calculations. Then when it can be seen in broad daylight, we all riot and blame the scientists for either not warning us, or for not making sure something effective (end probably expensive) was done in time.

Right now, our ability to deflect asteroids is very limited. Even a "small" asteroid is still incredibly massive. We launch little tin cans into space weighing a few hundred tons, or even a few thousand. An asteroid a few hundred meters in diameter will probably have a mass many thousands or even millions of times greater than that of the shuttle, which is around 2 million kilograms. Hit it with every nuke on the planet, and you'll just ablate a bit off of the surface, and it'll keep coming.

Our best hope for moving a threat is to catch it early, maybe launch a probe or two to really nail down its exact orbial parameters, and then somehow nudge it slightly off course so it will miss Earth. Such a thing would be completely untested, expensive, and would be countering a threat decades off - most people wouldn't see that as a priority.