anyone read up on this iceberg? Some serious stuff

[Moparal]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35600197/ns/us_news-environment/

[Alaskan_TA]

It would sure keep a lot of beer cold. 

[tommyg29]

huge chunks of ice are always breaking off antarctica. Always have....always will.
Impressive though just the same.

[Aussie Challenger]

Here in Australia they are trying to link it to the 'global warming' scam/con job.   
Anybody noticed that they are not mentioning the ozone holes anymore, if they were as bad as they said the hole would be as big as the world by now.   
They forgot to mention that the ozone holes shrink back every year.   

[wally426ci]

huge chunks of ice are always breaking off antarctica. Always have....always will.
Impressive though just the same.

They won't break off when they are all gone.

People always bash global warming. It doesnt mean that you can walk outside naked in Winter, it means the earth average temperature has warmed 1 degree in 100 years or so. Since we don't know why huge civilizations died off in the past, or when the next collosal earth disasster will happen, we have to assume that any change in climate is headed in the negative... 

[Bullitt-]

They won't break off when they are all gone.

People always bash global warming. It doesnt mean that you can walk outside naked in Winter, it means the earth average temperature has warmed 1 degree in 100 years or so. Since we don't know why huge civilizations died off in the past, or when the next collosal earth disasster will happen, we have to assume that any change in climate is headed in the negative... 

Not that we don't need to take care of Mother Earth the best we can but I saw a real scientist show what was wrong with Algore's theory that carbon in the atmosphere has caused warming in the past.. Seems that Algore's charts are small pictures of very large time spans & when you zoom in on the warmer/higher carbon times the peak carbon is actually behind the temps by several hundred years, His conclusion is the higher carbon counts are actually a result of warmer temps....Makes sense if you think about it that there would be longer growing seasons therefore more decaying plant matter that would release more carbon dioxide....ie 2+2=4   

[dodj]

The earth is an ever changing ecosystem. Warming, cooling, expanding, contracting, for whatever reason it's always changing. We just don't have the knowledge to understand all the changes and what they mean. So we make (with the limited knowledge we have) guesses. Sometimes right, often wrong.

[dodj]

Seems that Algore's charts are small pictures of very large time spans

At work we set up computer displays for operators to track various items (pressure, temperature, etc) and sometimes they will accidentally change the scales to some huge or infinitesimal number. Then a small variance looks like a huge swing in value. Its all frame of reference and how you interpret the data.
I believe we affect climate on earth. All organisms have an effect. How much is 'normal' and how much it is skewed by pollution etc... 

[Bullitt-]

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I believe we affect climate on earth. All organisms have an effect. How much is 'normal' and how much it is skewed by pollution etc... 

  No doubt we each can effect things on a micro scale but one good volcano eruption does more globally in a few days than all humans ever could do in a lifetime...


There I just contributed to global warming   ...........................   

[tommyg29]

I've heard that about volcanoes. Dont know if it's totally true but there is also unusually high volcanic activity under the antarctic over the past few years, and who knows if that isnt also contributing to these ice breaks?

[Alaskan_TA]

Worth watchig for anyone that has not seen it yet;

http://www.kusi.com/home/78477082.html?video=pop&t=a

[Bullitt-]

There you have it....Nothing to do with Global Warming....more like Global Socialism.

  Don't get me wrong, I'm all for developing clean alternative fuels but not to the exclusion of making good economic sense  ... Whatever happened to hydrogen that was being talked up so much a few years ago?...G.E. must not be in that business.   

[bb71challenger]

I too am all for being responsible in taking care of our resources but there you have it folks. By the way, if Al Gore is so consumed with taking care of our planet why doesn't he fly commercial and cut down on his own personal carbon footprint. Its comical that in his efforts to learn all us simple folk he has contributed greatly by flying his own jet around the globe. Its the same old thing that people have been counting on for centuries. There is a sucker born every minute.

[Aussie Challenger]

Back in the 1950's & '60's they were telling us that the earth was cooling down. Seems that they can't get their stories straight or they forget what they said last year.
I too believe that we do have to be careful with the way we treat this world, but it seems that somebody is making money out of it.   
Al Gore is certainly not flying all over the world at his own expense.   

[whitesatinmopar]

Interesting how logical persuasive study with records backing the actuality of facts far surpasses the alarmist and extremeist who just bellow out "warnings", Al Gore is a dupe and he ought to change his name to "Chicken Little Al Gore".  And he continues to live his lifestyle because he really knows it does little to nothing to his global warming, whoops, they changed the name, Climate Change, message.  Beleive what you wish but portray actal facts not personal predictions and consequences. So, in the last how many years the earth's (average) temperature has risen 1/2 of 1 degree  and depending where you live it probably has declined that same amount.  CHECKMATE !