In like a Lion, out like a Shoggoth.
I say this in complete honesty: I would be OVERJOYED if Global Warming were a lie.
I know this is a long shot, but --
Is there anybody reading this journal who believes Global Warming is a lie, a hoax, a myth, or otherwise unsound science, and is willing to articulate that point for me ( Read more... )
I know this is a long shot, but --
Is there anybody reading this journal who believes Global Warming is a lie, a hoax, a myth, or otherwise unsound science, and is willing to articulate that point for me ( Read more... )
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I'm just amused that this is the first post of yours I've seen with zero comments. So I figured I'd add a comment, so if people see this post has one comment, they might think to themselves "Who's the schmuck who thinks Global Warming is a hoax?" and click through only to read this.
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Awesome.
No. But seriously. I try to drive it from my thoughts but every day, as it continues to rain and the weather continues to be abberant and freakish, I can't stop thinking, like a mantra: global warming. we're fucked. global warming. we're fucked. global warming. etc.
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The best argument that I've seen against Global Warming merely takes the position that it's part of a natural cycle, implicitly dismissing the thought that humanity could affect the global climate. The last rational was probably some muttering about "liberal scientists" or somesuch. I don't want to hijack this thread -- but was anyone else really disturbed by the South Park global warming episode? I know crazy hyperbole is their stock and trade, but by painting those concerned about global warming as kneejerk reactionaries, they seemed to paint the picture that global warming was nothing to be concerned about. And on the flip side, The Day After Tomorrow was so absurdly sudden, it does to global warming concerns what Reefer Madness did for marijuana opposition ( ... )
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They posit that the melting of icecaps would change the salinity of the ocean, effectively stopping the "pump" mechanism it now provides through the Atlantic. With water circulation slowed or stopped we would be thrown into a cataclysmic ice age that could fall in a matter of 10 years.
This is obviously cut short for length, as the show was a half hour or hour, but I think you get the idea.
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But I've also heard an interview with the scientist who's the major proponent of that theory, and he was somewhere between amused and aghast about Tomorrow. The biggest change in that movie basically happened in a day -- close to 4,000 times faster than his estimate. And civilization would be pretty messed up even an ice age hit within even 100 years.
I think what he was trying to stress was that things would happen a lot faster than we would think -- if we were thinking like a climatologist does. (q.v. my point on temporal myopia and other comments elsewhere about us not be able to make sudden changes -- however, sudden doesn't mean none, just ask the guys that built the Great Wall.)
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I just wanted to include the only knowledge I sort-of have on the issue. TDAT was just a nice segue.
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Every once and a while, I wonder how soon I need to get a house in a higher elevation. Not that it'll help when civilization falls apart, but at least my stuff will be dry.
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2. ...
3. Profit!
Someone needs to compile all the evil schemes that result in oceanfront property. I think both Superman 78 and A View to a Kill have a plan like that. Although I could be totally misremembering the latter.
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