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It doesn't matter how fast the computer is
By FITCamaro on 6/9/2008 4:59:32 PM , Rating: 1
Man-made global warming still isn't real.

By Seemonkeyscanfly on 6/9/2008 5:07:00 PM , Rating: 5
sure it is, Have you not listened to Al Gore explain that the 37,000 scientist that disagree with him are all wrong.... He clears everything right up. The solution is very simple. Just make your check out to KYMG (kiss your money goodbye) and send it in to Al Gore's office in DC or one of his many homes. He will take care of the rest.

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By mcmilljb on 6/9/08, Rating: -1
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By Relion on 6/9/08, Rating: -1
By Seemonkeyscanfly on 6/9/2008 5:21:04 PM , Rating: 5
Why are people that tell jokes disgusting? Just because you don't like it, does not make him disgusting. Twisted maybe but not disgusting.

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By InternetGeek on 6/9/2008 7:00:58 PM , Rating: 5
If we follow that road, there soon won't be much jokes left.

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By ShowTim3 on 6/10/2008 10:30:25 AM , Rating: 2
Cheap humor will always be easy to get, don't worry about that, you'll get your portion of it. Smart humor is a little harder to find tho.

Well...I guess to get a higher rating I ll start to do humor about dead soldiers in Iraq or things like this:

Not ! But I guess there's ppl that can do it....and they may even get a positive rating on these forums. Just a shame....I guess it is the american way...

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By geddarkstorm on 6/10/2008 1:04:59 PM , Rating: 2
It's one thing to make light of tragedies that are actually happening, than it is to make absurd jokes about things that'll never happen. Unless Iran starts nuking everyone in its corner of the world, no one (save maybe Israel) is going to nuke it.

People need to lighten up, then there wouldn't be so many wars in this world.

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By Relion on 6/10/2008 6:21:46 PM , Rating: 2
Well...exactly my point, only that we differ. You see it as an absurdity, but I don't see it like that, US military abusing other countries is just real, you like it or not.

"People need to lighten up, then there wouldn't be so many wars in this world."
I can't agree more with this, lovely words, it's a shame our leaders don't think the same...

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By Reclaimer77 on 6/10/2008 7:22:28 PM , Rating: 1
"People need to lighten up, then there wouldn't be so many wars in this world. I can't agree more with this, lovely words, it's a shame our leaders don't think the same..."

For once I agree with a hippie !

People DO need to lighten up. Namely those sexually repressed third world wifebeating womanizing terrorizing suicide bombing Koran reading mass murdering plane hijacking maniac Muslims.

Lets start with them first. I think when you riot and kill people because of a cartoon drawing, you automatically get moved to first on the list of those who need to " lighten up ".

Our leaders didn't start this. Do your best to keep forgetting that though.

By wjobs55 on 6/11/2008 12:58:40 AM , Rating: 2
Doing our best to forget won't help when our Jewish friends are always reminding us. But on another note we really should attack Iran and make our Jewish friend israel safer so none of her citizens has to die. We have the population to sustain any casualties. Israel doesn't because it has so small a population and always losing its people.

By pxavierperez on 6/12/2008 5:47:54 PM , Rating: 2
er, our leaders did start this. retake that history class you flunked awhile back.

Actually it does. What a frakking GENIOUS.

By sporr on 6/10/2008 2:53:56 AM , Rating: 2
Give them time, and they will be dropping them on YOU.

The question is - would there be any left to ask?

We'd be better off just measuring the glass density.

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By Fluxion on 6/9/08, Rating: -1
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As the ocean absorbs more CO2 it becomes more acidic.

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Why do you take such a short view?

Its the only one that makes sense right now.






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By EvilBlitz on 6/10/08, Rating: 0
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I dont see what is wrong doing something for my ch

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I will start to believe in these causes when:



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By Westmassguy on 6/10/2008 5:53:52 AM , Rating: 2
It's ManBearPig..............Can you see it?
See I told you it was real

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By Major HooHaa on 6/11/2008 6:12:23 AM , Rating: 1
Have you seen the size of the holes in the ozone layer?! That was caused by man-made CFCs. This proves that man can have a big effect on the Earths environment.

When it comes to fossil fuels, we have dug up millions of tons of carbon and then released it back into the atmosphere through burning. At the same time we have reduced the environments ability to soak up carbon through de-forestation. I read that tree bark is made up of roughly 70% carbon and a mature Oak holds around 1.3 tonnes of carbon*.

The view I take is that the Human race has altered practically every habitat on the planet and changed the composition of the atmosphere. Since all those habits are locked together in a delicate balance, where changes to one can affect another, then we must have had some effect on the planet.

The population of humans on the planet is vastly, artificially inflated by our technological advances. So we are now the dominant species on the planet and surely that gives us a duty of care to look after that planet. Do we really have the moral right to send other species to extinction?

Having said that, the planet Earth will certainly out live the human race.

I came across a quote saying "Did you know?- We now know that the abundance of life on Earth masks an uncomfortable geological fact. To a rough approximation, of all the species that ever lived, less than 1% are alive today!"

As for the super computer being used for climate modelling, good on you guys!

*Thanks John-of-Wem for those figures.

By Aloonatic on 6/11/2008 7:01:24 AM , Rating: 2
Just because 1 thing happened because of 1 cause it does not mean that everything happens because of it too.

The Ozone debate was well supported, proven and thus accepted by everyone and action has taken place, and things are on the mend, slowly but surely.

The main advantage that the "Ozone Depletion" problem had over "Man Made Climate Change" (MMCC) was that the solution was relatively inexpensive and did not impede on people's day to day lives too much.

Yes, replacing your refrigerator was a pain in the arse all of a sudden, and aerosols were a bit rubbish for a few years but the former was a 1 off problem and the latter was soon fixed by clever people in white coats.

MMCC on the other hand is still not proven (those lovely colour coded pictures of the polar regions showing the ozone hole where very pretty and convincing) all that well and we are so dependent on the cause of it (cheap energy) that it just plane hurts too much to change our lifestyles.

Another point I feel is worthy of mention is that the data that we have to support the MMCC argument is pretty poor and always will be until someone invents a time machine.

There is just not enough data out there, unlike the situation when debating the ozone hole. There were measured levels of Ozone and it was relatively easy to show the sudden changes and decline (along with the obvious cause) and there was very little room to argue that it was due to naturally occurring reasons and these changes are all part of a greater system.

e.g. When people talk about icecaps melting and shrinking, showing videos of them falling away they can easily be skewed to support an argument, often neglecting to show them growing again later , or even that there have been recorded growths and contractions in the ice caps for a fairly long time but they are inconvenient to the MMCC argument and thus ignored.

Suddenly we are able to measure a lot of things on a global scale (for a rediculously small amount of time in the grand scheme of how long the environment and global climate has been changing and evolving) and we have seen a slight trend occurring and panic has set in, politicians have seen a chance take advantage of public sentiment and fear and celebrities have found something to fill their day and assuage their guilt for being massively wealthy for doing very little whilst most of the world lives in absolute squalor.

What ever gets you thought the day i guess.

I just haven't been convinced, see my other post for when I will be.


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