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Rainbird said:
@ ManusJustus

To be fair, I believe Slime was referring to the myth of global warming being caused by humanity, which is a myth.

CO2 is a greenhouse gas, it allows sunlight to pass through it but traps heat.  Man has put more CO2 into the atmosphere through deforestation and the use of hydrocarbons.  Man is in the very least partially responsible for global warming.



ManusJustus said:
Rainbird said:
@ ManusJustus

To be fair, I believe Slime was referring to the myth of global warming being caused by humanity, which is a myth.

CO2 is a greenhouse gas, it allows sunlight to pass through it but traps heat.  Man has put more CO2 into the atmosphere through deforestation and the use of hydrocarbons.  Man is in the very least partially responsible for global warming.

It's true that is has an effect, but that effect on the global temperature is practically non-existant. This is almost entirely a thing of nature, and is beyond our control.



Ecological/climatic. Man-made causes playing a strong role both in the cause of it and in the response to it (war over resources, mass displacement of people, etc.).



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Rainbird said:
ManusJustus said:
Rainbird said:
@ ManusJustus

To be fair, I believe Slime was referring to the myth of global warming being caused by humanity, which is a myth.

CO2 is a greenhouse gas, it allows sunlight to pass through it but traps heat.  Man has put more CO2 into the atmosphere through deforestation and the use of hydrocarbons.  Man is in the very least partially responsible for global warming.

It's true that is has an effect, but that effect on the global temperature is practically non-existant. This is almost entirely a thing of nature, and is beyond our control.

Practically non-existent?  The ice caps melt while you make that claim.

Water vapor, CO2, and many other greenhouse gases have a huge affect on heat in our atmosphere.  More greenhouse gas and the temperature goes up, less and it goes down, its a direct relationship.



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ManusJustus said:
Rainbird said:
ManusJustus said:
Rainbird said:
@ ManusJustus

To be fair, I believe Slime was referring to the myth of global warming being caused by humanity, which is a myth.

CO2 is a greenhouse gas, it allows sunlight to pass through it but traps heat.  Man has put more CO2 into the atmosphere through deforestation and the use of hydrocarbons.  Man is in the very least partially responsible for global warming.

It's true that is has an effect, but that effect on the global temperature is practically non-existant. This is almost entirely a thing of nature, and is beyond our control.

Practically non-existent?  The ice caps melt while you make that claim.

Water vapor, CO2, and many other greenhouse gases have a huge affect on heat in our atmosphere.  More greenhouse gas and the temperature goes up, less and it goes down, its a direct relationship.

I'm not saying global warming doesn't exist, it certainly does. I'm just saying that humans and CO2 have barely anything to do with that.

To my knowledge, sunspots are the cause of the global warming.



ManusJustus said:
The sun will burn the Earth (garraunteed apocolypse wether humans are still here or not).

lol, way to end the thread on the first post.

While all the others have so much chance of happening that is the only 100% one.  :-p

I guess you could say if we find someone way to prolong the life of the sun then we could say the next thing to take care of would be the moon falling out of orbit from the Earth.  It will happen, or at least would if the sun wasn't going to consume our solar system first.



NJ5 said:
Nuclear war... because it could already have happened if it wasn't for Stanislav Petrov:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

Well, the thing is.  Even at the height of the cold war... a Nuclear war wouldn't really be armageddon.  The effects of Nuclear Weapons are much less then people think... as would the effects of Nuclear Winter.

It greatest disaster in the history of the world.... but it wouldn't be bad enough to be considered an "armaggeddon" in my opinion.



ManusJustus said:
Rainbird said:
ManusJustus said:
Rainbird said:
@ ManusJustus

To be fair, I believe Slime was referring to the myth of global warming being caused by humanity, which is a myth.

CO2 is a greenhouse gas, it allows sunlight to pass through it but traps heat.  Man has put more CO2 into the atmosphere through deforestation and the use of hydrocarbons.  Man is in the very least partially responsible for global warming.

It's true that is has an effect, but that effect on the global temperature is practically non-existant. This is almost entirely a thing of nature, and is beyond our control.

Practically non-existent?  The ice caps melt while you make that claim.

Water vapor, CO2, and many other greenhouse gases have a huge affect on heat in our atmosphere.  More greenhouse gas and the temperature goes up, less and it goes down, its a direct relationship.

The icecaps have melted before... back when there weren't any humans.

Global warming is a NATURAL occurance... the planets tempeture isn't constant.  It changes naturally in cycles.

 

Some basic things to consider.

 

A) Of man made sources of greenhouse gasses.  The most destructive come from... Livestock farming and animal flatuelence.  Vegetarianism would be more helpful for the enviroment then green energy.  I don't want to here anyone talk about green energy until they go vegetarian and preferably vegan.

Green energy won't help if we keep eating meat... which actually meat consumption is on a HUGE rise.  As India and China get richer and richer they eat more and more meat.  The richer a nation gets, the more meat it eats.  The real problem with those countries isn't greenhouse gasses due to getting richer... it's meat consumption due to getting richer.

Methane is 23 times more potent then CO2.

B) We put much less carbon in the air then is put in the air naturally.  Naturally CO2 levels rise and fall.  C02 isn't some magical thing that is always at equal. 

 

 



Well, ignoring natural disasters such as asteroid impacts, local supernova event or some such, I do worry there's going to be a lot of conflict for a dwindling set of resources if we're not careful as a species - i.e. more of a whimper than a bang.

Of course, if it does turn out to be a major asteroid impact or the like, then more of a bang than a whimper.



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