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Post by
Adamsm
The thing is, other then the forest fire example and possibly floods, it's not really possible to prevent any other natural disaster on the planet, since mankind seems intent on settling in dangerous places: California on the fault line, Mt St Helens in Washington, all those coastal cities all around the Ring of Fire, and even New Orleans was far worse then expected because....the Big Easy is built on top of a massive swamp land that is constantly eating away at the city from below.
My town is also built on swamp land, and we have several flood channels and locks all over the place...which didn't do much a few months ago during torrential rains which flooded out farmers field and the irrigation ditches that are meant to drain the water out; I also saw portions of my town, and the town where I was working in, having flooding areas all along the river front.
Now, yes, in the future(100-1000 years from now), the coasts will flood upwards from the ice caps melting and drown out a lot of beach front property...which get hit by hurricanes every year, raising the water level even more. When it comes to building places, humans aren't very smart about it; the Territories here in Canada will probably end up flooding when the caps and the permafrost melt away.
Post by
Transducer
Global warming occurs just before a global cooling, another ice age in the cycle of our planet.
At the very worst, humanity has simply speeded up the process. It's still inevitable.
Add this to your list of 'Scary Possibilities That Would Exhaust Me If I Waste My Thoughts Caring About Them'.
Post by
Tartonga
At the very worst, humanity has simply speeded up the process.
And why do you think that mankind's activity does not trigger side-effects nor that it heighten the effects of natural events?
Post by
Quilan
No, Global Warming doesn't exsist. It's climate change. Happens every hundred or so years. I think in the 70s scientists were freakin' out of a 2nd Ice Age, didn't happen. This is all usual. So no need to be alarmed or panic.
Post by
Tartonga
No, arguments don't exist. It's reasonless opinions. Happens every one or two posts. I think people like to throw baseless statements as if they were facts, it happens.
Post by
91604
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Post by
Patty
No, Global Warming doesn't exsist.
Yes it does. It currently, and has done for some time, makes Earth a reasonable temperature for life to thrive in.
Post by
204878
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Post by
donnymurph
Yes it does. It currently, and has done for some time, makes Earth a reasonable temperature for life to thrive in.
That's the greenhouse effect. Different thing again.
Post by
Tartonga
Yes it does. It currently, and has done for some time, makes Earth a reasonable temperature for life to thrive in.
That's the greenhouse effect. Different thing again.
I don't see why you corrected him. You don't believe that Global Warming exists, perhaps?
Post by
donnymurph
Whether or not I believe it exists is irrelevant to the discussion.
Post by
166779
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Post by
donnymurph
Anyone who whinks we should not be at least somewhat concerned about mitigating these risks is an idiot.
And so your answer to the question "Should we be
alarmed
about global warming?" is...?
Post by
gnomerdon
I'm not concerned about it, yet I am fully alarmed of it. :( That would make me an idiot.
Post by
Adamsm
Would it be happening this fast without us? Almost certainly not.No one has said other wise in this thread.
Post by
Tartonga
Whether or not I believe it exists is irrelevant to the discussion.
Then I would like to know your definition of "Global Warming" since it seems it's pretty different from mine, if you think it's not related to:
Yes it does. It currently, and has done for some time, makes Earth a reasonable temperature for life to thrive in.
Post by
donnymurph
That's not global warming. That's the greenhouse effect, as I already said.
The greenhouse effect is caused by carbon dioxide in the atmosphere holding
some of
the heat that is reflected off of the Earth's surface as sunlight. If it didn't, the Earth would be uninhabitable, as it would be unbearably cold at night.
Global warming, on the other hand, is the increasing of that effect; i.e. as the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases, so does the overall temperature of the Earth. However, this happens with diminishing returns.
Post by
Tartonga
Exactly. Global warming is a process, which one of its causes is the greenhouse effect. If it's said that "global warming makes Earth a reasonable temperature for life to thrive in" it is implied that the greenhouse effect and other factors are the cause of that. Before mankind appeared, global warming was only caused by the greenhouse effect, nonetheless.
Post by
donnymurph
No, you're all mixed up.
The
greenhouse effect
is what makes Earth a reasonable temperature for life to thrive in. Global warming is caused by the
increasing
of the greenhouse effect. In other words, the greenhouse effect is simply a benign term, while global warming is just regarding
changes
in the grenhouse effect.
Post by
Tartonga
If there were no changes in the greenhouse effect, do you think life would have been able to thrive in? Greenhouse effect level can also decrease, which is what is supposed to be one of the main causes to start ice ages. On the other side, if there was no increase on the greenhouse effect after an ice age, I doubt that would be a good time to thrive in.
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