Global Warming... pffft.

[Raptor]

Remember folks. "Global warming" isn't PC anymore. The PC term is "climate change".

;D

My take on the entire thing? The climate goes through fluctuations and cycles. Mom says that the summers and winters we've been having remind her of how the seasons were when she was a kid.

[snakeman13]

I'm not very warm either

You from Venus?
It's HOTTER than hell here!!!!!

[WingedWolfPsion]

The current weather isn't the primary indicator.
It's the CO2 levels and ocean surface temperatures.

We are in the middle of a slightly warmer period in the middle of an ice age. Exactly what this huge CO2 spike is going to do remains to be seen, but there is absolutely no doubt that it's going to do something that causes climate change. It's already begun to. (Plus, it's wiping out the shellfish).

When the climate changes, this causes problems for us. Big problems.

It makes NO DIFFERENCE whether we caused it all, or contributed to it, etc. It's irrelevant. We're going to have to deal with it regardless.

Sure, we're in the middle of an ice age. Sure, the Earth has been a LOT hotter than it is now...magnitudes warmer. Life at present is adapted to the current climate range. When that changes, everything else has to change too. It's going to be pretty ugly in the meantime.

Life will go on, but it will never be the same...not even close.

[snakeman13]

The current weather isn't the primary indicator.
It's the CO2 levels and ocean surface temperatures.

We are in the middle of a slightly warmer period in the middle of an ice age. Exactly what this huge CO2 spike is going to do remains to be seen, but there is absolutely no doubt that it's going to do something that causes climate change. It's already begun to. (Plus, it's wiping out the shellfish).

When the climate changes, this causes problems for us. Big problems.

It makes NO DIFFERENCE whether we caused it all, or contributed to it, etc. It's irrelevant. We're going to have to deal with it regardless.

Sure, we're in the middle of an ice age. Sure, the Earth has been a LOT hotter than it is now...magnitudes warmer. Life at present is adapted to the current climate range. When that changes, everything else has to change too. It's going to be pretty ugly in the meantime.

Life will go on, but it will never be the same...not even close.

I think you need to correct this.
We are NOT in the middle of an ICE AGE!
We may be in the middle of a warm period, but by no meens an ice age.
The world Glaciers are vanishing faster than ever, this does not happen in an ice age.

[ed4281]

Very Deep man, I am in Texas it's been over 100 for 3 weeks now and a cold spell here is in the 90's I will gladly change places with you, I am originally from New York and this whether is killing me

[WingedWolfPsion]

We are still IN the ice age that began at the start of the Pleistocene. We're in an interglacial period in the middle of that ice age.

During non-ice age periods, the Earth doesn't have ice, even at high latitudes.

A few melting glaciers on mountaintops doesn't make up for the fact that there are still miles of ice over Antarctica.

"The current ice age, the Pliocene-Quaternary glaciation, started about 2.58 million years ago during the late Pliocene when the spread of ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere began. Since then, the world has seen cycles of glaciation with ice sheets advancing and retreating on 40,000- and 100,000-year time scales called glacials (glacial advance) and interglacials (glacial retreat). The earth is currently in an interglacial, and the last glacial period ended about 10,000 years ago. All that remains of the continental ice sheets are the Greenland, Antarctic ice sheets and smaller glaciers such as on Baffin Island."
(from Wikipedia).

[xdeus]

Very Deep man, I am in Texas it's been over 100 for 3 weeks now and a cold spell here is in the 90's I will gladly change places with you, I am originally from New York and this whether is killing me

Yep, as much as I whine about the cold weather, I think I can only handle the heat for short periods. I can always bundle up when it's cold, but there's only so much I can take off in the heat... at least that's what the cops told me during the last heat wave.

[ed4281]

Yep, as much as I whine about the cold weather, I think I can only handle the heat for short periods. I can always bundle up when it's cold, but there's only so much I can take off in the heat... at least that's what the cops told me during the last heat wave.

Too funny

[DarkSean]

Its been raining here today. We had maybe 3 really hot days and the others were warm, wet or just mild.

[dc4teg]

hmmm all this heated discussion makes me thirsty for a plastic bottle of water

anywho... I dont buy into the media propoganda..... its a crock of spit

and if earth is in an ice age then the earth heats up all organisms die... then the earth re-heals its slef and ready for round two? I DONT THINK SO its just the earth going through a cycle.... and havnt any of you seen futurama before? the earth is still around in 3000