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Punky, I was going answer your post, but given that apparently this thread has been closed and re-opened in my absence this evening, anything I replied to what you wrote, little of which had anything to do with the topic, would probably only end up with it being closed again and I think the subject of this thread is rather too important for that.
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And it's very possible that Global Warming will cause the Ice Caps to melt, destabilising the Gulf Stream which could then trigger another Ice Age.

Of course by that time it will be too late to do anything about it...

Re: Global warming 'past the point of no return'
 

And as the polar caps re-freeze, the salinity of the sea increases, restarting the gulf stream and saving the day *yay*
:D

Re: Global warming 'past the point of no return'
 

I suggest you do a little more research into climatology before you start cheering...

From the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution:

http://www.whoi.edu/institutes/occi/...hange_wef.html

Re: Global warming 'past the point of no return'
 

Graham, you do realise that uses the word "paradigm" don't you?

The fact is that the earth has been at much higher temperatures before, and at much lower ones.
We won't actually know the outcome of global warming for certain until it actually happens.
Just think of the geological and archeological discoveries that await us under the ice of Antartica....if society is still in a state to care by then.

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If it is melting at the speed that they are saying it is, why ain;t we up there snowboarding and surfing the ice waves man :disturbd:

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It's not a criminal offence...! :)

Yes, I know.

Yes, I know.

Exactly, *IF* it is still in a state where they're in a position to care, rather than just curse their ancestors for taking a laissez-faire attitude of "well, we don't *know* it's going to happen, so let's not bother even trying to do anything about it... :grind:

Re: Global warming 'past the point of no return'
 

As far as I can see, the scientists are pushing extrapolation to the limits (whether it be looking back OR forwards.)

There just isn't enough hard evidence on past climate to allow future climate to be predicted. They even struggle to manage a 5-day forecast, so what chance they'll get anything this far in the future anywhere near right?

Also, if the fear mongers are to be believed, then it's already too late...

One of the problems is that we have no idea of knowing how the climate would have developed over the last 150 years if we hadn't had our input to it.

Whatever happens, somewhere on Earth some(thing) will survive, somehow and it will all start over again.

And no doubt the scientists of this future era will be just as baffled by the 'evidence' they find as current scientists are by what they've found.

P.S. Excuse me if I have overlooked any previous argument, but I can either catch up & read everything, or put in my 2p worth - there's just not enough time in the day now to do both. :)

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Tree ring evidence? Ice Cores? Layers of ocean sediment? There seems to be a fair bit of hard evidence from where I'm looking.

This is disingenuous. It's not a matter of whether it will rain over your house next Friday, it's the effect on the whole system.

Which is not an argument for doing nothing.

[quote]One of the problems is that we have no idea of knowing how the climate would have developed over the last 150 years if we hadn't had our input to it.

Which is also not an argument for doing nothing!

Which is *still* not an argument for doing nothing!

Or maybe they'll think "these people had the chance to at least *try* to do something. Why the hell didn't they...?"

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Global warming the true cause

http://www.show.me.uk/site/news/STO873.html

COWs FARTING

Re: Global warming 'past the point of no return'
 

Well that's a load of....

No, it's just *too* easy! :dozey:

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Well, if it's past the point of no return that means we can't do anything about it, so it now doesn't matter if we waste resources and drive powerful petrol-hungry cars.

Excellent news!

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It bloody well should be :D

It's times like this that I miss Jerrek and his "but why should america's economy suffer to save the world?" statements. I could do with a laugh.

If we are past the point of no return (but hang on, the earth used to be a giant snowball and it returned from there...) we should just start preparing for the worst.


So, how would you lot prepare given that we don't know whether we'll have a heatwave or an ice age?
Buy an airconditioner and an electric blanket?
Take a crash course in sailing?
Start "sleeping with the fishes" to try and give your children gills?

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What a load of dung we all know its sheep ;)

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It's only 'hard' evidence if you accept their interpretation of things which are in no way hard/fast proof. They just suggest the way the climate might have been.

And tree rings don't go that far back. If we're looking for an Ice Age, then consider that the last one was between 10000 and 50000 years ago!

Quite - so MUCH more difficult, hence so more likely to be wrong.

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How can we use the past, it ammuses me when they say

"every 100,000 years this happens" HOW DO WE KNOW the Earth is evolving as we are, it could change that to 1,000,000 years?????

As for global warming causes next it till be me farting hard after a good kebab.