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Scientists Say Climate Change Has Reached the ‘Point of No Return’ – 5 Things You Can Do Today

Posted by dbhalling 9 years, 8 months ago to Science
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Notice the logical contradiction in the headline?


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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Holy Ice Age, Batman!
    What a great repost to the next idiot who uses that example to me (my endocrinologist).
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It IS funny - it IS serious. Would you prefer to smile or frown? We're getting closer every day to an Idiocracy.
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  • Posted by ProfChuck 9 years, 8 months ago
    To a politician it makes no difference if anthropogenic global climate change is real or not. What matters is that it can be used as a tool to increase political power. If it is real politicians are absolutely the last people you would want to put in charge of finding a solution.
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  • Posted by ProfChuck 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Correct. It's ice that sits on land that raises the sea level when it melts. When ice that floats in the sea melts it actually lowers the sea level.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It is a concept. Nothingness does not exist, but we can conceive of it. That's one of the things that makes the libs so looney.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    MMMMM. Ribeyes.
    You can have the loin, give me those Delmonicos every time. A few with bone-in to gnaw on. Maybe the dog gets the bone if she's good.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 8 months ago
    I think those scientists have passed the point of no return.
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    Posted by ohiocrossroads 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I was debating global warming on another website last week with an hysteric who posted this little gem: "How do you think I feel walking around knowing I have carbon dioxide in my lungs?"
    To which I responded "Alive. Your lungs tranform oxygen from the air you inhale to carbon dioxide, which you exhale. It's called being alive."
    How do you think I feel knowing this guy's vote counts just as much as mine?
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  • Posted by ohiocrossroads 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    And if the real number is only 73.2527%, I'll attack your conclusions as being completely invalid and the product of a political agenda.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 9 years, 8 months ago
    I could only read just so much of that article and had to stop. I just need one question answered from the don't-eat-meat-because-it causes-global-warming advocates:

    If all those millions of buffaloes that used to crap and fart all over North America couldn't bring on global warming in their day, then how come a bunch of cattle ranchers and steak houses have to take the hit for it today?
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  • Posted by genowg 9 years, 8 months ago
    It´s not like ´Rolling Stone´ ever got it wrong before.
    Just say´n
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  • Posted by wdg3rd 9 years, 8 months ago
    Sea level 10 feet higher by 2065? I remember when the prediction was 2020.
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  • Posted by walkabout 9 years, 8 months ago
    If we want to cool the planet off we need to find a way to trigger a volcano of sufficient size to push us back into the several hundred year period known as the "Mini-Ice Age." Of course, we have to ignore the fact that historically (and apparently pre-historically) human kind does better when the earth is a little warmer as compared to when it is a little cooler.
    BTW, what is wrong with having 10 foot higher sea levels? Is it that current shore front properties are owned by the wealthy and they (the evil rich) might lose money?
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  • Posted by wiggys 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    last i saw about eating plants was that we do eat plants always; sometimes the plants are channeled to us through cows, pigs, wild game etc.
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  • Posted by terrycoughlin 9 years, 8 months ago
    Melting sea ice is causing sea level rising?
    Try this! Place a glass on a napkin and fill it up with ice cubes. Pour in water until it is full to the very top.
    Wait until all the ice has melted. The napkin will be dry and the water level in the glass will be lower by 10%.
    Ice occupies 10% more volume than it does when melted (That's why it floats!) Therefore, the melting of the sea ice will lower the ocean sea levels. Reality check!
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  • Posted by scojohnson 9 years, 8 months ago
    If we all just switch to eating tofu... the problem is solved... (because growing billions of acres of soybean is less of an impact than raising livestock?)

    So, according to the stupid article, agribusiness is responsible for soaking up all of our fresh water and arable land.. but ... says we should eat more plant-based food.

    So, the plants fall out of the sky like Jesus making manna apparently.

    Where do these people come from? They need to be forced to wear signs on their forehead so you don't get stuck behind them in the TSA line or something as they walk through the magnetic detector with a body full of metal and they take it off one earring at a time or whatever and keep "hoping for the best".
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  • Posted by $ Snezzy 9 years, 8 months ago
    Anything supposedly about science that lacks verifiable numbers (or a method for the reader to produce his own reliable numbers) really is not scientific.

    They mention the ocean acidification, but they (carefully?) avoid giving any measurements or methods for measuring. The big about melting ice raising the sea level is causing my stomach to turn.

    Even when you see numbers you need to judge whether or not the numbers are real. For example, is an "average temperature" really a temperature? Or is it something else? I could go into a lot of suggestions about faulty averaging and about faulty collection of data. Sometimes data isn't even real, but is simply wishful thinking. According to a scientific study 73.2528% of all statistics are simply made up!
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  • Posted by scojohnson 9 years, 8 months ago
    I feel better already... I have about 60 trees on my property +/-, about 10 of them are Sequoias that are only about 25 years old and well over 100 feet tall & about 10 feet in girth. I guess I'm doing my part!

    I also planted another sequoia a couple of years ago and while watering that thing last night, realized its about 30 feet tall already. I guess that makes up for my internal combustion engine... plus all my idiot neighbors that can't grow a boxwood hedge without it looking rather sad.
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  • Posted by scojohnson 9 years, 8 months ago
    I love how we had a very hot day here in the Sacramento region yesterday... around 107... but the record (111) was set in 1913.
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  • Posted by rbunce 9 years, 8 months ago
    I don't think they know what "point of no return" means... perhaps they meant "no point of know return"
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yep, Climate Change has been making that point ever since this planet first became surrounded by assorted gases.
    That's why--IT'S ALL OUR FAULT!
    That's why--IT'S TOO LATE!
    That's why--WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!
    That's why--SERIOUSLY, WE ALL NEED TO DO SOMETHING!
    No, let's all party. For tomorrow we die.
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