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Lifestyle => Train of Thought => Topic started by: J Bananas on July 12, 2006, 04:46:35 PM
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SYDNEY (AFP) - Trees could be growing in the Antarctic within a century because of global warming, an international scientific conference heard.
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With carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere set to double in the next 100 years, the icy continent could revert to how it looked about 40 million years ago, said Professor Robert Dunbar of Stanford University.
"It was warm and there were bushes and there were trees," he told some 850 delegates in the Tasmanian capital Hobart, the national AAP news agency reported.
The delegates are attending the combined meetings of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research and the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs.
Dunbar said climate experts were predicting a doubling of the levels of carbon dioxide by 2100, "but it actually looks like it's going to come sooner unfortunately."
Scientists blame greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, produced mainly by the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil, for causing rising temperatures worldwide.
I for one am looking forward to global warming. It will do wonders for real estate across northern cali, imagine the san francisco avg temp up in the seventies, the bay area would become an even better tourist destination, and my families homes resale would skyrocket.. bye bye san diego :), lets all spray some aresol cans in the air tomorrow morning
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san francisco is already an expensive place to live
are they saying trees growing in the arctic bad or good?
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are they saying trees growing in the arctic bad or good?
It's an objective article, they're just saying what could happen. Not if it's good or bad :P
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Cant wait to live there. ;D
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are they saying trees growing in the arctic bad or good?
It's an objective article, they're just saying what could happen. Not if it's good or bad :P
i figured that about THAT article but what is the general concensus about this. if trees growing in the arctic is a reality, then what is the scientific community saying about this ?
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we should be gone by then :D
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are they saying trees growing in the arctic bad or good?
It's an objective article, they're just saying what could happen. Not if it's good or bad :P
i figured that about THAT article but what is the general concensus about this. if trees growing in the arctic is a reality, then what is the scientific community saying about this ?
Not good
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are they saying trees growing in the arctic bad or good?
It's an objective article, they're just saying what could happen. Not if it's good or bad :P
i figured that about THAT article but what is the general concensus about this. if trees growing in the arctic is a reality, then what is the scientific community saying about this ?
Obviously not good, if it's gunna be due to global warming...LMAO.
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that's a pretty blanket statement....because it's caused by global warming
would some of you care to elaborate more why this would be bad
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^ the rest of the world would probably be flooded.. and i doubt trees would grow, too much CO2 = no life. fuckin quirky scientists.
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They say global warming brings cancer,
And cancer ends lives,
Real estate in Cali climbing,
while a muthafucker dies....
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When it becomes "hot" enough for trees to grow in Antarctica, that would mean that humans would literally get burned like vampires by the sun in already hot places like Los Angeles, that people couldn't live in places like Kenya no more goes without saying. Jome's grand grand grand grand grand grand grand grand grand grand [...] children would be naturally blacks in Norway. You decide if those things would be bad. In addition, all the ice in the oceans would melt and therefore the oceans would be flooded with water, therefore the land might as well be flooded. Future sucks.
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^ the rest of the world would probably be flooded.. and i doubt trees would grow, too much CO2 = no life. fuckin quirky scientists.
yup around where i live would be flooded.. i think the part of town where i live would be ok.. but i wouldnt be able to cross town to say where my work is, or where the town centre is.. as the currently 4 car or so width river would be 1/2 mile wide..
time to by me some farm land high up!!
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So is it possible to live on mars yet?
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So is it possible to live on mars yet?
The answer lies within the "delete account" button...
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So is it possible to live on mars yet?
The answer lies within the "delete account" button...
Well theres only one way to find out. Go ahead and try it.
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They have also said that ten years ago Polar Bears would be living in Scotland. Ever stopped to think this is the cycle? let me explani myself I was holidaying in Diano Marina which is a coastal town in the south of Italy I believe. We went for a guided tour around a very beautiful village whose name escapes me, the guide informed us that just over a century ago the weather was so terrifically hot that even walking was a very difficult task. She said that temperatures were typically over a hundred now they average around 80ish in the summer time. Simply put some parts are getting hotter some are getting cooler and this is all part of a cycle. Stop and ask yourself who founded Greenpeace for example. answer a globalist, now before you dismiss this let me point out to you that green peace advocate what they like to call population control on the grounds that people cause pollution. You need to smash all of your typical paradigms to realise that these environmental groups are just another arm of the true powers in this world.
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Greenpeace,Powerful? u gotta be kidding me
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Stop and ask yourself who founded Greenpeace for example. answer a globalist, now before you dismiss this let me point out to you that green peace advocate what they like to call population control on the grounds that people cause pollution. You need to smash all of your typical paradigms to realise that these environmental groups are just another arm of the true powers in this world.
Popoulation control is a damn good idea. China followed through with a damn good idea!
Too many people. Plus our industrie is geared to destroy the Earth.
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time to by me some farm land high up!!
it's funny you mention that, my surveying lecturer takes things like that into account... he bought a house at high ground for security reasons... lol maybe he knows something we dont :D
Stop and ask yourself who founded Greenpeace for example. answer a globalist, now before you dismiss this let me point out to you that green peace advocate what they like to call population control on the grounds that people cause pollution. You need to smash all of your typical paradigms to realise that these environmental groups are just another arm of the true powers in this world.
Popoulation control is a damn good idea. China followed through with a damn good idea!
Too many people. Plus our industrie is geared to destroy the Earth.
population control is a sensitive issue... you cant just stop reproducing and expanding... our economic infrastructure would crumble. china is different, they are poverty ridden...
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just curious how hot is hot to you guys, right now in my town we're set to have a 105-110 degree weather this weekend
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just curious how hot is hot to you guys, right now in my town we're set to have a 105-110 degree weather this weekend
It was 118 when I went to Vegas 2 weeks ago...It surpassed 100 more than a few times this month in LA.
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just curious how hot is hot to you guys, right now in my town we're set to have a 105-110 degree weather this weekend
above 80
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just curious how hot is hot to you guys, right now in my town we're set to have a 105-110 degree weather this weekend
It was 118 when I went to Vegas 2 weeks ago...It surpassed 100 more than a few times this month in LA.
i love it when it gets that hot, i mean i got to take 5 showers that day but i enjoy 100 plus heat
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how much is 100 in celcius ?
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. Future sucks.
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how much is 100 in celcius ?
37.7
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how much is 100 in celcius ?
37.7
fuck that, thank god it aint higher then 34 celcius over here, and that doesn't happen more like 5 times a year
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Supposedly in 36 Thousand years or something, the Sun will grow so big that it will engulf some of the smaller planets in our galaxy including Earth. But everybody on earth will be dead way before the Sun reaches the Earths surface. But Before that the Earth will go throught two rough ice ages ala Dinosaur era
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As time goes by, slowly but surely everything perishes. Deal with it. There's no eternity. Therefore hanging on material possessions is foolish. Not even the sun will exist forever, how the fuck are your new Air Force 1s gonna make it?
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Supposedly in 36 Thousand years or something, the Sun will grow so big that it will engulf some of the smaller planets in our galaxy including Earth. But everybody on earth will be dead way before the Sun reaches the Earths surface. But Before that the Earth will go throught two rough ice ages ala Dinosaur era
There are scientists who believe we'll have the next ice age within 10 years :D
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cool i don't want to drive 2 hours to see snow anymore
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how much is 100 in celcius ?
37.7
fuck man, i thought you boys were talking about 45 degree heat... 37.7 is pleasant as 8) cant wait for summer.
Supposedly in 36 Thousand years or something, the Sun will grow so big that it will engulf some of the smaller planets in our galaxy including Earth. But everybody on earth will be dead way before the Sun reaches the Earths surface. But Before that the Earth will go throught two rough ice ages ala Dinosaur era
i heard it's more like 5 million years... and thats when the sun runs out of either hydrogen or nitrogen, when it expands it would get to about jupiter and when it runs out of energy completely it collapses on itself and either turns into a white dwarf or a black hole... if it's a black hole it collapses into such a dense form of matter, the gravity pull on it is so strong not even light can escape it's force, (therefore a black hole)..
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fuck man, i thought you boys were talking about 45 degree heat... 37.7 is pleasant as 8) cant wait for summer.
Oh, trust me...It reaches 45+ degrees celcius out here...
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^ true ! 45 would be fukn hot, i dont remember it ever gettin that hot here... we dont get much humidity though, it's a windy city, so even when it's hot, it's all to the good... the hottest i remember was 42/43... made it hard to walk on sand..
when i was in egypt it hit 50 celcius and 80% humidity or some shit... now that was hot... funny thing was, i was in the sun for 6 hours, hardly got a tan, in australia on a 40 degree day with high UV rating, 1 hour in the sun and you burn bad... they say 15 minutes causes damage if you dont have sun screen on... damn ozone layer.
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37° celcius 2days ago over here & i didnt even got out lol
can't do anything with that heat unless u walk in the shade ...