Environment/Climate Change

The really scary part is that even if we stopped destroying the environment tomorrow, it would probably be too late! Who knows how much of it can be reversed?
 
The climate sure is changing. Yesterday the high was 82F today the high was only 70F. I'm sure it must be caused by the "New Ice Age" they warned us about in the early 1950s.I'll be willing to bet it gets even colder before this year is over.
 

Yep. That vid pretty much sums up the kindy level demographic that the scare campaign is aimed at.
Did Tim Flannery produce it?

The problem with that theory is that neither of the 'Nin's' are dominant at present and all kinds of instense weather stuff is happening anyway.

Let's just settle down to figuring how to adapt to changing conditions instead of flapping about in panic trying to stop it. Let's just build the weekender back a few more metres from the high tide line, and clear the fire bomb trees a kilometre further back from the house fence for starters.

The planet is fairly well *d anyway now so a change is sorely needed. It's nature's way of sorting us out. Planet savers need to study their navels more closely and realise that what they are really intent on saving is the human race in general and their own personal lifestyles in particular. The planet will make it's own arrangements and look after itself just fine. We might need it but it sure don't need us.

The best favour we can do this planet is to globally snuff ourselves.

If people want to hold out hope for future generations then they need to get their arses into gear adapting to it, instead of trying to adapt it to us and our ever increasing needs. Get a grip, get real, enjoy what you've got for as long as you've got it and strap in for a bumpy ride. Shame about the great grandkids, but hey, that's how 'nature' really works folks. It changes constantly. Non adapters and over breeders don't last the distance. Just ask a dinosaur.
 
The climate sure is changing. Yesterday the high was 82F today the high was only 70F. I'm sure it must be caused by the "New Ice Age" they warned us about in the early 1950s.I'll be willing to bet it gets even colder before this year is over.

Now that you mention it RK, I came across this article from 1975 at the height of the New Ice Age scare:

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Everybody needs something to worry about. In my lifetime, I've told I was going to freeze and fry .... ;)

When politicians try to scare you, it's time to start asking questions.
 
Anyone notice that there is always further research required when any of these disaster papers are published .... always?

FWIW, Australia is a land of droughts and flooding rains .... but mainly droughts; in parts of our country, twenty (20) year droughts are not uncommon. Check out this rainfall map which shows that the country is in drought most of the time:

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Poster version here: http://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/products/pdf/australiasvariablerainfall.pdf
 
... and, I knew I had read this somewhere; a paper published in 2012 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans which stated:

An analysis of subsurface anomalies shows that during ENSO events the subsurface anomalies are highly correlated with the strength of surface anomalies over the 140 year period. Overall, there is no evidence that there are changes in the strength, frequency, duration, location or direction of propagation of El Niño and La Niña anomalies caused by global warming during the period from 1871 to 2008.

Author Information
  1. Sulagna Ray[SUP]1,2,*[/SUP],
  2. Benjamin S. Giese[SUP]1[/SUP]


  1. Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
  2. LOCEAN/IPSL, UPMC, Paris, France
Email: Sulagna Ray (sulagna.ray@locean-ipsl.upmc.fr)
[SUP]*[/SUP]Corresponding author: S. Ray, LOCEAN/IPSL, UPMC, Case 100, 4 Place Jussieu, FR-75252, Paris CEDEX, France. (sulagna.ray@locean-ipsl.upmc.fr)

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2012JC008031/abstract
 
The really scary part is that even if we stopped destroying the environment tomorrow, it would probably be too late! Who knows how much of it can be reversed?

No worries. Earth abides. Long after we're gone it will still be kickin'. We are but a pesky parasite... Besides, some day that ol' ball o' fire 93 million miles away will expand and consume this third stone and that's a good thing...
 


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