Polar ice-caps melting

[Evadman]

jjsole: You made me spit my mountain dew on my keyboard 😀

 

[Spike]

The Ross ice shelf is heading for the same demise,and if it fails,say good-by to Miami, the Florida keys,New York City. If it goes, the ocean is predicted to rise 15 feet. But of course, we need more studies, don't we? An Ice shelf the size of Rhode Island slides out to sea,but those who think we are not having a global warming problem will stall any attempt to curb greenhouse emmisions for all the stupidest reasons you can imagine. If this thread gets legs, the hosers will be here telling you there is no problem

Dude, this process has been happening over and over, there a cooling periods and warming periods in the earths histry. Deal with it, move to higher ground. I tend to agree with the shifting energy theory myself

 

[cricky]

>> The U.S. center noted that 720 billion tons is enough ice for 290 trillion 5-pound bags.

<sarcasm> Well thank god they put it that way. I had a hard time visualizing 720 billion tons. 290 trillion 5-pound bags of ice, now that I can visualize. </sarcasm>

--Christopher

 

[tsunek]

Its not that changes like this have not happened before it is that they have never occurred so rapidly. we have changed the carbon dioxided content of the atmosphere by more than 100 ppm. Changes of this size have happened before. naturally they take about 50,000 years to occur. we changed in a little more than 70 years. The vast majority of scientists believe that global warming is ocrruring and is due to human activity. the only disagreement is to the severity and the effects of the changes

 

[Pocatello]

Yeah, I feel there is a great danger to those so loveable penguins (real concern). They could go the way of the dodo. The Earth is always changing though, beneficial to some and harmful to others. Perhaps the Earth environment will change in a way that is not human-friendly in the future. The dinosaurs survived for hundred of millions of years, we only had a few hundred thousands. Perhaps it's time for the cockroach to rule th earth 😉

 

[SagaLore]

<< Its not that changes like this have not happened before it is that they have never occurred so rapidly. we have changed the carbon dioxided content of the atmosphere by more than 100 ppm. Changes of this size have happened before. naturally they take about 50,000 years to occur. we changed in a little more than 70 years. The vast majority of scientists believe that global warming is ocrruring and is due to human activity. the only disagreement is to the severity and the effects of the changes >>



I think dinosaurs started global warming - with the massive amounts of carbon dioxide they produced by breathing, and the methane and sulfur dioxide from expelled gases. They suffocated themselves to extinction, and the global warming caused the ice caps to begin melting, and now millions of years later, the cycle of melting is coming to an end but we're just beginning to see the effects of it - kind of like how the economy/recession works.

It's the dinosaur farts stupid.