Is Global Warming really all that disputed anymore?

[OS]

Originally posted by: KirbsAw
The temperature is changing but I don't think there is anyway to know how drastic the affects will be. A geology professor I had once said that we will run out of fossil fuel before enough damage was done that the Earth couldn't repair itself.

Don't take profs words as fact. I've seen some profs say/do some pretty crackpot things, like doing current research on cold fusion. Another prof once told me that we need to be careful researching fusion because we might create a runaway fusion reaction that will destroy the whole earth.

 

[OS]

I have a consideration regarding CO2 and global warming in that if CO2 is a greenhouse agent, why is there no focus on stopping runaway coal fires across the globe?

 

[nageov3t]

I blame the cows.

 

[Ready]

Originally posted by: loki8481
I blame the cows.

 

[phantom309]

Originally posted by: royaldank
Penn and Teller did an episode on this. I'm not saying they are 100% correct, but from what I gathered, global warming is BS. Also, the idea that we are loosing 1,000 of animals a day to extinction is a load of BS. Lastly, the rapid deletion of forrests that hippies always cry about it fairly non-existant as well.

Penn and Teller also claim that second hand smoke doesn't cause cancer. Do you really want to go there?

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: phantom309

Originally posted by: royaldank
Penn and Teller did an episode on this. I'm not saying they are 100% correct, but from what I gathered, global warming is BS. Also, the idea that we are loosing 1,000 of animals a day to extinction is a load of BS. Lastly, the rapid deletion of forrests that hippies always cry about it fairly non-existant as well.

Penn and Teller also claim that second hand smoke doesn't cause cancer. Do you really want to go there?

No, Penn and Teller claim the EPA report is full of sh!t. And it is. It's so crooked it's been thrown out of federal court when it was used as evidence in a case.

Read this:

http://www.davehitt.com/facts/epa.html

And this:

<br>[url]http://reason.com/sullum/031898.shtml
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And this:

<br>http://www.reason.com/sullum/051603.shtml

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Some glaciers in Alaska are melting. Some glaciers in Alaska, though, are apparently expanding so fast as to cause a hazard to inhabited areas, according to some reports.

I believe the planet may be warming a bit, but most of it is from natural factors. Cyclical warming, methane emissions from the sea bed, the Sun, etc. Other planets are warming up as well, not just Earth.

 

[Amused]

Oh, and BTW, this is why the ETS hysteria refuses to die:

http://reason.com/0004/fe.rl.show.shtml

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: Amused
Oh, and BTW, this is why the ETS hysteria refuses to die:

http://reason.com/0004/fe.rl.show.shtml

Bookmarked. Good read. Now I just need to find that one site that had all the junk science about DDT, etc.

 

[Amused]

http://www.junkscience.com/

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: Amused
http://www.junkscience.com/

:laugh: I should have known that would be the URL, and that you would know the site I was thinking of. :laugh: Thanks again!

 

[Kyteland]

I don't know how reliable all of this is, but here is some info I drug up through Google.

linky

Volcanoes release more than 130 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere every year

Comparison of CO2 emissions from volcanoes vs. human activities.
Scientists have calculated that volcanoes emit between about 130-230 million tonnes (145-255 million tons) of CO2 into the atmosphere every year (Gerlach, 1999, 1992). This estimate includes both subaerial and submarine volcanoes, about in equal amounts. Emissions of CO2 by human activities, including fossil fuel burning, cement production, and gas flaring, amount to about 22 billion tonnes per year (24 billion tons). Human activities release more than 150 times the amount of CO2 emitted by volcanoes--the equivalent of nearly 17,000 additional volcanoes like Kilauea (Kilauea emits about 13.2 million tonnes/year)!

linky

Each year humans release about 6.7 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere.