QUESTION???
IF THE CAVEMEN AND THE DINOSAURS DIDN'T POLLUTE THE PLANET ..HOW COME THEY SUFFERED CATACLYSMIC CLIMATE CHANGES??...GLOBAL WARMING BOLLOCKS!...ITS ALL A SCAM...THESE ARE UNIVERSAL SEASONS...THE TOXINS THAT FLOW FROM THE EARTH ARE SO INSIGNIFICANT THEY REALLY MAKE NO DIFFERENCE AT ALL...IN THE SCHEME OF THINGS...THE EARTH HAS A SHELF LIFE LIKE ANY OTHER PLANET...TRUST ME IM A ROCKET SCIENTIST IN MY SPARE TIME...
posted by gypsy noir at 10/30/2006
17 Comments:
Well, a large meteor strike would solve our global warming problem......
oh yes like the supposed meteor that caused the ice age...ever since time began there has been extreme weather its not new..
I've often thought the same...
About the weather - not your running about with the likes of Stephen Hawkins...
The human race is arrogant.
Look at the big picture - it's much larger than us!
EXCACTLY DALE YOU ARE SPOT ON...
Strange, but I was reading an article this afternoon about this very subject! I studied climatology in college as part of my anthropology program and it really is fascinating that we know so little about how the planet works. But we're learning.
The gist of the article was pretty much what you're saying - that many naturally occurring factors have come together over the course of the earth's history to cause extremes in weather and climate. I've never heard them called universal seasons before, global seasons, yes...
Some of the factors mentioned were volcanos, sulfer dioxide poisoning (believed to be a result of volcanic activity), meteorites, and natural global warming and/or cooling.
None of these things by themselves would cause a cataclysmic global event, but put them together within a certain geologic time span and a weakened ecosystem could be wiped out by just one more thing....
The meteor that scientists used to smugly say caused the extinction of the dinosaurs is now believed to have been just the last straw in a series of events and that populations were already declining for other reasons before it hit. The last ice age was probably well on its way to getting started already and was, in fact, part of the natural global climate cycle of heating and cooling.
One of the article's conclusions was that our ecosystem is becoming seriously compromised now - not entirely by us, but we aren't helping matters. Global warming has happened before, but we are accelerating it through the excessive use of fossil fuels and all of the other factors that contribute greenhouse gasses and pollutants.
Scientists have been able to determine that average global temperatures are now at least a degree or two higher than they've ever been before - and climbing. The only factor in play that has never existed before on this planet is the huge human population that it currently supports.
The human race IS arrogant. We behave as if we think we can waste and/or misuse our natural resources and this planet will keep on supporting us indefinitely in the way to which we have become accustomed.
And the big picture IS much much larger than us, but we are the only ones who can do something to slow and/or reverse some of the damage we've done to this tiny little blue planet we call home. We do have control over some things.
I for one want a liveable world for my grandbabies when that time comes.
Somebody with both the scientific knowledge and the political will to act needs to figure out 1) what's really going on and 2)do something about it, or precious places like southern British Columbia and darkest Northumberland will become even more densely populated islands of diminishing beauty and tranquility.
That is, if nobody starts tossing nukes about first...then none of this means a penny.
Our arrogance as a race stems from the belief that we have dominion over nature rather than being a part of it. This foolish notion has helped destroy some of the most beautiful beings and landscapes on this planet, and we don't seem to be in much of a hurry to stop.
*sigh*
"gypsy said.. IF THE CAVEMEN AND THE DINOSAURS DIDN'T POLLUTE THE PLANET ..HOW COME THEY SUFFERED CATACLYSMIC CLIMATE CHANGES??..."
did they drive volvos and smoke? :P
im with you gyps.. how the heck does anybody know what the temperature was doing 25 million years ago.. BEFORE the cavemen and dinosaurs drove volvos and smoked? global warming is bollocks
~Lace~
ps.. *theyve* also decided that *pluto as a planet* in the photo you posted.. is no more :(
~Lace~
There have been several ice ages in the history of the Earth. What is commonly called the ice age is actually the most recent (Quaternary) which began about two million years ago, and was characterized by cold (glacial), and relatively warm (interglacial) phases.
Four major continental glaciations are recorded in North America. The last (Wisconsin) began about 70,000 years ago, and ended 10,000 years ago. At the peak of the last glaciation, approximately 97% of Canada was covered by ice.
Animals and plants that once lived in glaciated regions survived in refuges in Alaska and the Yukon, possibly on Banks Island, and in the northern United States. Probably the thickest ice (approximately 2 miles thick) occurred over Hudson Bay. We are presently in an interglacial phase that could last for another 10,000 or more years.
The dinosaurs lived on this planet for 150 million years. They have been extinct for 65 million years, which means they came into existence about 235 million years ago. History will probably record them as being the most successful creature to ever inhabit this planet. Or, perhaps we might beat them – but it will be 149 million years before we surpass them.
Do you think we’ll make it? Will we someday become the new titleholder? Man – most successful creature to ever inhabit this planet. Dream on.
wow! rache thankyou for that perfect explanation..you are so on the button..anne marie your so right too..lace i was going to go to pluto next year but its been cancelled...tommy D a valuable view thankyou..i dont think man will reign supreme neither...This is what pisses me off about it all...the two faced governments of the world brainwash us in to recycling rubbish...(to save our planet) separate tin from glass/plastic/paper ect..use unleaded petrol. ect..DO THEY use unleaded petrol in wars?..do they separate glass from plastic and limbs on the battlefields? do they care about the environment when they drop bombs chemical or otherwise?...oh yes use less energy and we will charge you more for thee priviledge..ha!..every city in the world lit up? security cameras in every crevice 24/7 imagine the power all that uses.....its all an excuse to rip us off..they are making fortunes from the stuff we recycle and we are paying them to do it!...they dont give a rats ass about the planet...the chemical and oil industries alone spew out more filth in a day than we could ever in a life time..im all for looking after our planet..but this massive con that we have been force fed is sooo not on..its a nanny state and we are been babysat by lying bastards....right im off to catch some more zzzs..
Nice last post gypsy - which hits more of the actual problem - diversionary tactic. Personally I would quit drinking water, juice etc out of plastic or using it to wrap food, although I still do. I don't mind recycling because we are a wasteful generation of people, but I am not an idiot when it comes to knowing just how much pollution our fearless leaders cause by little war games. Try living in a radioactive Iraq now or places in Lebanon - Afghanastan, IF reports can be believed - depleted uranium is no joking matter.
Many places are severly polluted...now they are warning people about the drinking water in CA due to jet fuel pollution. So many people I know over there have cancer, at young ages, it isn't funny.
right on string!.....grrr! the fascist binmen wouldn't take my 'green' bin because it had some polystyene packing in..so now to get them back i always carefully hide stuff in the green bin that shouldn't be there..you know stuff like chinese leftovers.. dead mormans, birds and mice..well they are bio-degradable ffs!..except for the mormans they will last for ever!..
In a word ;-)
mormon..moron...oops im awake now..vallee p!!!!!!!!!!..are you back??..
Who the hell are we anyway?
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