Global Warming 10 years ago predictions

**OmgUrMom** · 12-20-10, 02:36 PM

too funny

**str** · 12-20-10, 04:35 PM

Pretty sure that Polar Bear stuck on the floating piece of ice that we all saw, now resides in Pennsylvania.

**cloudagh** · 12-20-10, 04:37 PM

Even up here, Canucks know this is tripe. We would be happy if true.

**Mikail** · 12-20-10, 04:39 PM

These guys(scientists) where probably shills for Al Gore and his carbon credits scheme.

**Hotdiggity11** · 12-20-10, 04:40 PM

So what does this have to do with the fact that the climate has consistently been rising over the past 150 years in a way that it has not done so at any other time in the Earth's history?

**36mafia** · 12-20-10, 04:44 PM

hindsight is 20/20

**poochiecollins** · 12-20-10, 05:08 PM

Originally posted by maersksealand

Flashback March 2000 "Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past" "within a few years winter snowfall will become a very rare and exciting event. Children just aren't going to know what snow is." Dr David Viner,senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia. "ultimately British children could have only virtual experience of snow. Via the internet, they might wonder at polar scenes - or eventually "feel" virtual cold". David Parker, at the Hadley Centre for and Research in Berkshire Reality Check December 2010"Britain and Europe have been hit hard for the third straight record-breaking winter season" "UK the coldest winter in the last 100 years (-20C / -5F) "Ireland Ice age continues with big freeze" ‎Noel Brown, warned of a “10-year window of opportunity to solve” global warming. According to the 1989 article, “A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ‘eco-refugees,’ threatening political chaos.”

Out-of-date or bad sources. The information I most regularly hear on global warming is about average temperature rising a few degrees over this century, depending on the area. The North Pole has appreciably less ice than it used to.

Global warming and cooling will happen naturally anyway, but keeping it slow results in the least problems.

**onetrickpony** · 12-20-10, 05:12 PM

if u honestly ever believed this global warmpiss shit then go now and jump off the nearest bridge but make sure its not to close to the ground u dont want to fail at killin urself

**philswin** · 12-20-10, 05:14 PM

Al Gore also said after Hurricane Katrina that because of global warming and the warming of the ocean that the Hurricane season would worsen every year. We have now gone 5 years without a major hurricane.The US had never before gone 5 years without a major hurricane.

**JOHON8** · 12-20-10, 05:18 PM

I don't like calling people stupid, but you define the definition of stupidity and ignorance. Global environmental disaster doesn't necessarily mean only hot weather. Go open a science textbook and understand why extreme cold weather has something to do with the global climate change that we are experiencing as the result of human activity.

People who are against the idea of climate change are morons who don't give a shit about anyone but themselves.

**onetrickpony** · 12-20-10, 05:20 PM

Originally posted by JOHON8

I don't like calling people stupid, but you define the definition of stupidity and ignorance. Global environmental disaster doesn't necessarily mean only hot weather. Go open a science textbook and understand why extreme cold weather has something to do with the global climate change that we are experiencing as the result of human activity. People who are against the idea of climate change are morons who don't give a shit about anyone but themselves.

good one, they feed it to u and look what u do

**dherd** · 12-20-10, 05:23 PM

[quote=maersksealand;8004493]Flashback March 2000 "Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past"

"within a few years winter snowfall will become a very rare and exciting event. Children just aren't going to know what snow is." Dr David Viner,senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia.

"ultimately British children could have only virtual experience of snow. Via the internet, they might wonder at polar scenes - or eventually "feel" virtual cold". David Parker, at the Hadley Centre for and Research in Berkshire

Reality Check December 2010

"Britain and Europe have been hit hard for the third straight record-breaking winter season"

"UK the coldest winter in the last 100 years (-20C / -5F)

"Ireland Ice age continues with big freeze"

THIRD STRAIGHT RECORD BREAKING WINTER
COLDEST WINTER IN LAST 100 YRS.
IRELAND ICE AGE

SOUNDS LIKE CLIMATE CHANGE TO ME !
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**Hotdiggity11** · 12-20-10, 05:27 PM

Originally posted by Hotdiggity11

So what does this have to do with the fact that the climate has consistently been rising over the past 150 years in a way that it has not done so at any other time in the Earth's history?

???

**onetrickpony** · 12-20-10, 05:31 PM

Originally posted by Hotdiggity11

???

what u want?

**pavyracer** · 12-20-10, 05:32 PM

OMG! It snows in the winter and it's hot in the summer. That means global warming is a hoax.

**Hotdiggity11** · 12-20-10, 05:59 PM

Originally posted by onetrickpony

what u want?

An answer to the question.

**Hotdiggity11** · 12-20-10, 06:00 PM

Originally posted by pavyracer

OMG! It snows in the winter and it's hot in the summer. That means global warming is a hoax.

It's funny people on here are using weather to decide shit about climate change.

**onetrickpony** · 12-20-10, 06:01 PM

Originally posted by Hotdiggity11

An answer to the question.

what side u takin, im lost here

**Hotdiggity11** · 12-20-10, 06:03 PM

Originally posted by onetrickpony

what side u takin, im lost here

That human activity plays some part in the recent increase of climate change.

**onetrickpony** · 12-20-10, 06:06 PM

Originally posted by Hotdiggity11

That human activity plays some part in the recent increase of climate change.

sure it does to some degree, but dont u think the earth goes thru cycles?

**Hotdiggity11** · 12-20-10, 06:13 PM

Originally posted by onetrickpony

sure it does to some degree, but dont u think the earth goes thru cycles?

The Earth goes through cycles over long periods of time [Usually tens to hundreds of thousands of years]. With the exception of catastrophic events such as giant craters hitting the Earth's surface of course which can bring more immediate consequences.

As it stands, deforestation and CO2 emission releases have cause a small but consistent rise in climate.

**iamnomad** · 12-20-10, 06:13 PM

the zealots don't even call it "global warming" any more. They term it man-made "global climate change" Maybe it exists and maybe it doesn't. The tragedy is the expensive "command and control" solutions that are being proposed. Fortunately, there are some rational believers as well, such as "the skeptical environmentalist," bjorn lomborg. Lomborg says climate change is a problem, not a crisis, and there are solutions that are relatively inexpensive that might do a better job than those the zealots espouse...

**Hotdiggity11** · 12-20-10, 06:15 PM

Originally posted by iamnomad

the zealots don't even call it "global warming" any more. They term it man-made "global climate change" Maybe it exists and maybe it doesn't. The tragedy is the expensive "command and control" solutions that are being proposed. Fortunately, there are some rational believers as well, such as "the skeptical environmentalist," bjorn lomborg. Lomborg says climate change is a problem, not a crisis, and there are solutions that are relatively inexpensive that might do a better job than those the zealots espouse...

This argument is quite boring. Both "global warming" and "man-made climate change" are continuously used by people. Try a new talking point.

**katstale** · 12-20-10, 06:18 PM

I bet there is a positive correlation between this belief/hoax and...... (1) people that believe that Uconn is abt to break UCLA's record? (2) People that believe that someone has been recording temperatures thruout "earths history"!! lololol

**C-Gold** · 12-20-10, 08:01 PM

Originally posted by Hotdiggity11

So what does this have to do with the fact that the climate has consistently been rising over the past 150 years in a way that it has not done so at any other time in the Earth's history?

Pretty silly argument considering temp records only go back 400 years.

**C-Gold** · 12-20-10, 08:03 PM

Originally posted by Hotdiggity11

So what does this have to do with the fact that the climate has consistently been rising over the past 150 years in a way that it has not done so at any other time in the Earth's history?

Even sillier argument considering the guys who made the climate "hockey stick" were proven to be cooking the books and not following the scientific method. Omitting key data that refutes your point is bad science, it's politics.

The Earth has warmed 1.5 degrees in the last 150 years. That's hardly the need for Al Gore style alarm-ism.

**Hotdiggity11** · 12-20-10, 08:13 PM

Originally posted by C-Gold

Pretty silly argument considering temp records only go back 400 years.

Uh, no they don't. No surprise you have never heard of paleoclimatology, that would actually require you to know anything about this topic.

**Hotdiggity11** · 12-20-10, 08:14 PM

Originally posted by C-Gold

Even sillier argument considering the guys who made the climate "hockey stick" were proven to be cooking the books and not following the scientific method. Omitting key data that refutes your point is bad science, it's politics.

The Earth has warmed 1.5 degrees in the last 150 years. That's hardly the need for Al Gore style alarm-ism.

The only person who has said anything about Al Gore until now is you. I go based off of scientific evidence, not what some politician said. It is pretty obvious your opinion is politically-based, not scientifically-based.

**GettingScrilla** · 12-20-10, 08:26 PM

Humans are making a dramatic impact on this planet and one would be a fool not to think so. With Oil spills & Oil Abuse, over fishing, over farming, War, and disease the planet as we know it will be gone within the next 250 years. The world is like a large brick building and each piece is like a different type animal, plant, resource, etc. While it is okay if the grout gets weak in some ,or if a few bricks fall out here or there...but when we start abusing, completely removing, and altering species many breaks are coming out in groups. Eventually the whole brick building has weakness everywhere and it collapses...

While 1,5 degrees in the last 150 years may not seem like a lot, imagine if the temp. goes up at an exsponetial rate (just like the population...) over the next 150 years say its 6 degrees over 300 years. That would kill a lot of marine life- and in the 3rd world countries this is a staple of life...thus leads to waring over resources, more technology on and on...

Plane and simple we are F'd in the A

**maersksealand** · 12-20-10, 08:30 PM

where is the Ice Age ? Climate change is over 6 billion years old...so don't tell that by having global taxes imposed by UN the climate change will stop.

**eidolon** · 12-20-10, 08:33 PM

Originally posted by Hotdiggity11

So what does this have to do with the fact that the climate has consistently been rising over the past 150 years in a way that it has not done so at any other time in the Earth's history?

This statement is false. All you have to do is look back to around 800-1200ad, and you see larger temp changes then what we are going through right now. So that is only looking back 1000 years, and I could imagine there has been even larger temp changes in the last 50 million years

**GettingScrilla** · 12-20-10, 08:33 PM

Change starts from the top- if money takes what it cost then money it is-- you nor I will ever have say...so pay up and hope...land of the FREE home of the BRAVE(s)

**Chuck Sims** · 12-20-10, 08:38 PM

Al Gore has been exposed as your typical scheming weasel politician.

The plan to "skyrocket" our utility bills as candidate Obama said, along with doubling gasoline at the pump has hit a snag. Leaked e-mails by scientists aka "climate gate" that brought to light that man made global warming is a farce.

**gryfyn1** · 12-20-10, 08:44 PM

Originally posted by iamnomad

the zealots don't even call it "global warming" any more. They term it man-made "global climate change" Maybe it exists and maybe it doesn't. The tragedy is the expensive "command and control" solutions that are being proposed. Fortunately, there are some rational believers as well, such as "the skeptical environmentalist," bjorn lomborg. Lomborg says climate change is a problem, not a crisis, and there are solutions that are relatively inexpensive that might do a better job than those the zealots espouse...

I find it funny you quote Bjorn Lomborg, seeing how Lomborg "the skeptical environmentalist," was 12 years ago.

Now his postion is that global warming is "undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today" and "a challenge humanity must confront" that "Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem" and requires "tens of billions of dollars a year to be invested in tackling climate change"