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Thadius -> RE: BBC: What happened to global warming? (10/10/2009 10:06:01 PM)
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ORIGINAL: ThatDamnedPanda
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ORIGINAL: Thadius
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ORIGINAL: DomKen
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ORIGINAL: Sanity
Show me how carbon is a health menace.
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If anyone truly believes that global warming isn't a threat I urge them to move to a sea shore within 1 meter of sea level and stay put no matter what happens. If you're right you get to live at the sea shore. If you're wrong the rest of us don't have to deal with you any more.
Ever tried putting some ice in a styrofoam cup then filling it to the rim with water? Even with the ice being above the rim, when it melts it doesn't run over the sides of the cup....
Hi, Thaddius,
The problem with that, though, is that most of the water locked up in ice caps is on land, not floating in the sea. The Greenland and Antarctic ice caps hold a volume of almost 8 million cubic miles of water. Those ice caps are almost entirely on land, so if they melt, all that water is going to be added to the Earth's oceans. That's a lot of water, and that would be where the rise in the sea levels would come from.
Hiya Panda,
That is also assuming that the entire ice cap is going to melt, and or that none of it is going to evaporate (which in turn would produce a cooling effect and thus possibly reverse some of the "warming"). As I have stated before, I am not sold on the whole warming or cooling arguments. I personally believe that they are cyclical, I further believe that the cycles cause changes that create the next. Such as the rise in atmospheric CO2 creates increases in the amount of plantlife, which will eventually balance itself out as the excess C02 is converted. I know that is a really simplistic way to look at things, but I am just a simple man.
I wish you well,
Thadius
P.S. I am always interesting in reading data and studies from both sides of the issue, as it is the only way I can form an educated opinion of my own.
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