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Zerox 01-14-2008 12:33 PM

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Ah, the optimism of youth.

Hey, I'm merely the reflection of our overall society, and one of the few people who actually realises what's going on around here, and the fact that it's total b*llocks.

Mojo 01-14-2008 12:34 PM

Why do we need a Global Warning? Can't we just stick to OWF?

EDIT: Wait...



I should be afraid from Global Warming, since most of our county is below sealevel... Though I don't fear it, cause we are such good dike-builders. Hell, even the mighty US of A has asked our help :P.

Fluid 01-14-2008 12:35 PM

We could evolve into amphibians and have fins..

or we could build a giant boat and put a whole bunch of animals two by twos and have a giant orgy...


wichever u like best

Bullet Magnet 01-14-2008 12:42 PM

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Actually, scientific discoverys have lead to a theory that there could be many more life giving planets out there.

Yeah, but we have to both find them and then get there. And hope that there is not already someone or something living there, which would be an ethical nightmare.



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Well, there is a chance that the new up coming global ice age (Why is humanity so obsesed with their doom?) could balance out global warming, unless, as Alan Gore states, global warming triggers the next iceage, in which we get a bit of both, and are screwed, which we already are.

Actually, we are still in the same ice age as we've been in for hundreds of thousands of years. But a period of deglaciation.
But the apocalyptic images of frozen London and New York and Paris seems to be unlikely, if not impossible, the last I heard about it.

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But has anyone seriously considered seeking out a livable planet, and abandoning earth?
I mean, like the entire population evacuating earth, gradually, when a disaster is about to strike.
We don't even have a rocket that can escape the Earth's gravity these days. Also, the world's population increases faster than we could possibly get people off of the planet.

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Ice Age doesn't sound too bad except for the part that a good deal of the world is going to flood.

Extensive reglaciation is accompanied by a drop in sea level as the water is locked up as ice on land. Widespread floods and glaciations do not accompany one another.

Mojo 01-14-2008 12:46 PM

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We could evolve into amphibians and have fins..

or we could build a giant boat and put a whole bunch of animals two by twos and have a giant orgy...


wichever u like best

You mean you wanna have sex with a person, and include lots and lots of animals?

Perv!
Compared to you, even Havoc seems normal! (No offense, Havoc XD:P)

Wings of Fire 01-14-2008 01:04 PM

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We could evolve into amphibians and have fins..

or we could build a giant boat and put a whole bunch of animals two by twos and have a giant orgy...


wichever u like best

This guy could become president.

Instant solutions to all our problems with a sprig of well vocalized humor.

Strike Witch 01-14-2008 01:10 PM

Hmm.

Maybe we SHOULD kill Bush.

Perhaps he'll glow and a treasure chest containing a "Magic Staff Of Climate Change +1" will pop out.

Bullet Magnet 01-14-2008 01:27 PM

At the very least you could mount his head on a wall and then up the rent you charge your tenants.

mudling 01-14-2008 02:47 PM

Guys, why kill him? It's all his fault for global wamring, so make him fix it, whilst discovering new planets, a way to get there, a way to slow down the population peacefully, envolving us into amphibians, building a giant boat, give us his majic staff, and destroy america, thus all of our problems are solved.
Actually, if you want to get all technically and fastacically, AL gore could of been president of America, and he could of made America contribute more to stopping global warming, but no, Americans voted so close that Bush could cheat, who's also American, and those cousins of his who cheated were also american, and then you could blame the founders of america, and then the English, but the English could never of forseen this so it's not their fualt, no, it's all America's fault.
And don't even start me on the dinosuars.
And Kastere, don't chuck a nut, I was joking, I'm sure Oddey was too

Strike Witch 01-14-2008 03:53 PM

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Guys, why kill him? It's all his fault for global wamring, so make him fix it, whilst discovering new planets, a way to get there, a way to slow down the population peacefully, envolving us into amphibians, building a giant boat, give us his majic staff, and destroy america, thus all of our problems are solved.
Actually, if you want to get all technically and fastacically, AL gore could of been president of America, and he could of made America contribute more to stopping global warming, but no, Americans voted so close that Bush could cheat, who's also American, and those cousins of his who cheated were also american, and then you could blame the founders of america, and then the English, but the English could never of forseen this so it's not their fualt, no, it's all America's fault.
And don't even start me on the dinosuars.
And Kastere, don't chuck a nut, I was joking, I'm sure Oddey was too



God Fucking Damnit, Use the goddamn return key!

Walls of text are annoying and irritating.


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Guys, why kill him?

It's all his fault for global wamring, so make him fix it, whilst discovering new planets, a way to get there, a way to slow down the population peacefully, envolving us into amphibians, building a giant boat, give us his majic staff, and destroy america, thus all of our problems are solved.
Actually, if you want to get all technically and fastacically, AL gore could of been president of America, and he could of made America contribute more to stopping global warming, but no, Americans voted so close that Bush could cheat, who's also American, and those cousins of his who cheated were also american, and then you could blame the founders of america, and then the English, but the English could never of forseen this so it's not their fualt, no, it's all America's fault.

And don't even start me on the dinosuars.

And Kastere, don't chuck a nut, I was joking, I'm sure Oddey was too

And the worst part is that you used fucking massive, run-on sentences too. JESUS.

Oddey 01-15-2008 02:15 AM

Thank you Mudling for I was joking other than the first sentance and I also thank Kastere for pointing out the fact that I'm stupid because I can't deny it I am an idiot.

skillyaslig 01-15-2008 03:19 AM

People get savage around here. Too many n00bs...hehe, what a word....
Well, global warming has been happening for a while, as we know, but our human activities have speeded it up, and now we will die in an ice age, or flee and become moon people.

Bullet Magnet 01-15-2008 03:45 AM

I despair for science education, I really do.

Wil 01-15-2008 04:38 AM

There’s your future career for you, BM: something high up in the education system. :)

abe is now! 01-15-2008 11:50 AM

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Hmm.

Maybe we SHOULD kill Bush.

Perhaps he'll glow and a treasure chest containing a "Magic Staff Of Climate Change +1" will pop out.

No, we MUST: he didn't sign Kyoto protocol and Australians too. I hope new president will sign it.

Mac Sirloin 01-15-2008 12:25 PM

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People get savage around here. Too many n00bs...hehe, what a word....
Well, global warming has been happening for a while, as we know, but our human activities have speeded it up, and now we will die in an ice age, or flee and become moon people.

Hahaha, except us Canadians, we're used to the cold.

Bullet Magnet 01-15-2008 03:28 PM

You call that cold? That's short-sleeve weather during a glaciation.

OANST 01-15-2008 03:59 PM

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You call that cold? That's short-sleeve weather during a glaciation.

What about during an ejaculation, huh? What then?


Dear god, I am so out of my depths.

Bullet Magnet 01-15-2008 05:12 PM

Never mind, OANST. You can have the personal flotation device.


mudling 01-15-2008 06:20 PM

Actually our new priminsiter signed the Kyoto protical.
So now it's just the Americans fualt again. :P
Actually I'm pretty pissed off with China, call me ignorant, but how are they still developing when their leaders are so rich? Because they're on the aid list despite having a huge population able to gain a huge population, and leaders who take all of the money.

But has anyone seen Shanghi and Honkong? That's not devloping!

Actually I know nothing about China, but it seems this way, so someone prove me wrong.
But if they had a decent econemy, they wouldn't have to hide behind them being developing countries and using it as an excuse to produce huge emmissions of greenhouse gasses.
Seriously, if I had the amount of nukes america is supposed to have, I could destroy all of these countries causing all doom, well, one of ours dooms anyway, and while I'm at it, cause WWIII and a nuclear winter.

The Cheshire Cat 01-17-2008 01:15 AM

Some people say global warming is an illusion and that it happened from the dawn of the history in cycles - some centuries its warmer, some centuries its colder etc.

Now, I'm not saying that this is how it is, but you most certainly are not expected to notice any changes in your areas caused by global warming within a timespan of 5 years.

Wil 01-17-2008 03:36 AM

Essentially, Earth temperatures rise and fall in response to millennial‐period orbital cycles. Even after current anthropogenic global warming plateaus [that’s the third‐person singular simple present conjugation of the verb, not a shoddy attempt at a plural :-p], the Earth will have been warmer in the past, but not due to industrial emissions, and not necessarily with so many people living in developed areas that will be lost under rising sea levels.

Bullet Magnet 01-17-2008 03:49 AM

Your understanding of lingual terminology is unnatural. Stop it.

Wil 01-17-2008 04:05 AM

It was copy/pasted from Wiktionary. But I do understand it.

abe is now! 01-17-2008 11:50 AM

Last year, in February if I remember well, the temperature in Piedmont (Northern Italy near Alps) was 30°C. That was in Tourin. Today, 17/01/2008, the temperature was 10°C. I saw Alps snow, but how much will that stay? And the grey smog in the ski. Lats year didn't snow! And in January of 2008 snowed twice but then it rained and the snows disappeared. It's orrible!!!

Disgruntled Intern 01-17-2008 01:31 PM

whatdoyoumeanabeisnow!

Strike Witch 01-17-2008 02:43 PM

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It's orrible!!!

So 'Orrible!

abe is now! 01-19-2008 03:16 AM

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whatdoyoumeanabeisnow!

I mean Earth is sick now. And it needs care.

mudling 01-19-2008 08:05 AM

Well I don't think we can cure it, we can prevent any more from happening though, but that's impossible due to our circumstances, so yeah, we'll be screwed over eventually.

abe is now! 01-19-2008 08:54 AM

I am being a serious environmentalist since I saw in my country some ruin of nature... polluted rivers, forests that are now dumping ground tips, glacers smaller, and cement everywhere. My dream was to restore rivers, because I am a fisherman and I often fish in torrents that have been destroyed by last flood. Then they have been embanked. They were full of fish and now they are disappearing. Rivers are beautiful again, but not as good as before flood.
Then I went with my father in a national park (Gran Paradiso) and I have loved mountains. I strarted to look for glacers and snow in mountains, because I like them and I want to preserve them. Alps are impressive. Southern Alps (that I can see from my town) are very impressive. I want to save Alps's glacers. But I should stop global warming. I will study environmental chemistry. And in the future I'll try to do something to stop global warming. I know it's very difficult. But I must do it.

Paul 01-19-2008 11:43 AM

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I am being a serious environmentalist since I saw in my country some ruin of nature... polluted rivers, forests that are now dumping ground tips, glacers smaller, and cement everywhere. My dream was to restore rivers, because I am a fisherman and I often fish in torrents that have been destroyed by last flood. Then they have been embanked. They were full of fish and now they are disappearing. Rivers are beautiful again, but not as good as before flood.
Then I went with my father in a national park (Gran Paradiso) and I have loved mountains. I strarted to look for glacers and snow in mountains, because I like them and I want to preserve them. Alps are impressive. Southern Alps (that I can see from my town) are very impressive. I want to save Alps's glacers. But I should stop global warming. I will study environmental chemistry. And in the future I'll try to do something to stop global warming. I know it's very difficult. But I must do it.

If you're a serious environmentalist you wouldn't be using the internet right now as all the servers running around the world, your computer etc are causing tons of CO2 which is adding to the problem..

The only real solution is to stop using electricity, cars, and pretty much go back to the stone age, but guess what, no ones going to do that (or at least I know there’s no way in hell I’d do that).

The other solution is to use re-newable energy, which in a lot of places means nuclear power since other types aren’t feasible, but due to radiation and such environmentalists don't like that either ;)

But what about wind turbines? Environmentalists don't like those either because they scar the landscape..

In short, you'll die sooner or later one way or another so this isnt really a problem, and between now and global warming there is a lot of other ways the world can/could/will end.

mudling 01-19-2008 11:48 AM

So basically you're saying environmentalists don't like anything?
I saw screw global warming, turn on all of your lights, keep your computer on, leave on your car, just so you can say you're a rebel :P
And that you're an areswhole screwing up the planet.
Hell, once we get over global warming, we're back to the old giant volcano, or comment theory, I say this is all a huge scam to get us to spend more moolah :P

Paul 01-19-2008 11:53 AM

Well you don't live in the UK, fuel prices, congestion charges, and lots more stuff means its going to be very diffcult for most people to afford a car and the likes of soon (or even now in some cases) which is the only reason why the UK's CO2 levels are down.
Its all about them making money really, since if it was so important they would make "normal" light bulbs illegal and force people to use engery saving ones.

Bullet Magnet 01-19-2008 04:51 PM

Actually, that sort of effort is in motion.

Paul 01-19-2008 05:06 PM

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Actually, that sort of effort is in motion.

Yeah but it wont happen for a long time, if the earth is dying now, and we have to pay for tons of pathetic stuff then it should be done now

Bullet Magnet 01-19-2008 05:45 PM

Welcome to the human race inaction.

Zerox 01-20-2008 05:02 AM

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Actually, that sort of effort is in motion.

You obviously don't live on the same planet we do. Seriously.

It's just the fact that this could all be so easy, and the big ass stupid retard companies could still make plenty of money out of this, but no, they don't care if we all die horribly, which is certainly going to happen...I mean, solar panel cars are not a myth, I had a small Micro Machines or something one YEARS ago, yet why aren't they being used now? Because...well, uh...I don't know. It's not like people wouldn't buy them. I can't think of a good reason for that.

God I hate Humans so much...

Wil 01-20-2008 05:08 AM

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I will study environmental chemistry.

Awesome. I study environmental science. We can be study buddies.

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And in the future I'll try to do something to stop global warming. I know it's very difficult. But I must do it.

Instantly half your carbon footprint by boycotting animal products!

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So basically you're saying environmentalists don't like anything?

On the whole, yes, we generally despise everything in existence, even nature itself. But ‘environmentalist’ is a very broad generalization. Different people will have different opinions on topics such as nuclear power, wind farms, GM crops, even legalized hunting of endangered species.

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Well you don't live in the UK, fuel prices, congestion charges, and lots more stuff means its going to be very diffcult for most people to afford a car and the likes of soon (or even now in some cases) which is the only reason why the UK's CO2 levels are down.
Its all about them making money really, since if it was so important they would make "normal" light bulbs illegal and force people to use engery saving ones.

As a kind of aside, a man at the hospital where I had a job interview today told me his brother is publishing a book claiming that gas is not at all in short supply; this is a myth made by governments and fossil fuel companies so they can overcharge for it. It sounds all too familiar. Fossil fuels is not a topic I’m familiar with. Higher prices for environmentally damaging practices is in theory a good idea, but people’s lives are at stake if you make fuels inaccessible to them.

Bullet Magnet 01-20-2008 06:45 AM

There is plenty left, more than has ever been used, I'm sure. But our rate of consumption is just so much higher and no more oil fields are being discovered. It took over one hundred years to consume our first trillion barrels of oil, but will take only thirty to consume the next. Maybe less.

Nate 01-20-2008 09:47 AM

The other important point is that there is lots of oil around, it's just not good quality and will be very difficult, expensive and bad for the environment to process into usable forms.

Or perhaps he is playing silly buggers with terminology and is talking about natural gas (methane), of which there is still lots and lots in supply.