Comments on: understanding climate change on earth day

By: Dacnet

Dacnet — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:52:14 +0000

Climate Change made the typhoons in the south pacific very destructive. Typhoon Ketsana made a lot of mess in Philippines and Vietnam *

By: Avery

Avery — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:21:02 +0000

There is nothing we can do to stop the climate change.

By: Adam Williamson

Adam Williamson — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:19:50 +0000

wow, posting about climate change sure brings the crazies out of the woodwork, huh.

Maybe you should do a follow-up on the Middle East? no? :)

By: Climate Change

Climate Change — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:42:10 +0000

climate change is natural, and humans can’t engineer climate it’s beyond their knowledge, it’s a big system influenced by a myriad of conditions

so this climate change propaganda that the west is launching, have some interests, economic and political, those politicians never seek a better life for us, the simple example are medicaments they are registered trademarks !

so their aims is to suppress fossil fuel (presuming that it’s the cause of climate change) and replace it with the nuclear one (this is why they try to impeach Iran from making the Gold of the future !!)

believe it or not this is the sad truth of the misleaded earth !

By: Adam Williamson

Adam Williamson — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:09:29 +0000

Wattzon gives only one government figure for the whole of Canada – somewhere north of 6,000W.

Thanks again, Alberta!

Let’s face it, stopping emissions through reduction in consumption or population just isn’t going to happen. Not a chance in hell, at least at a high enough level in a short enough time. No, once it becomes clear that something has to be done we’ll wind up with some hack job of a technological ‘solution’ from our friends at DARPA.

Back in the days when everyone was worried about the ozone layer, the authors of Red Dwarf (think it was them) came up with what’s probably the most depressingly accurate vision: a gigantic artificial construct over the Arctic, known as the Earth’s toupee. We’re going to wind up with something like that. Ah, fun.

(and before you yell at me, I work from home, don’t drive, am vegetarian, and never use the heating. And yes all my flipping bulbs are energy saving. I’m just a realist as well…)

By: links for 2009-04-23 « ideas are free

links for 2009-04-23 « ideas are free — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:05:38 +0000

[...] understanding climate change on earth day Christopher Blizzard makes an assessment of the issues confronting human kind as we face the climate crisis (tags: climate climate_change environment leadership global_warming) [...]

By: Xan

Xan — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:28:14 +0000

@Frank: climate scientists are well aware that the Earth’s climate changes on its own. As the author of the article you linked to says the key is to figure whether our contributions to the cycles are significant or not, since the human variable is new in the equation. I was only answering to Hajdi about how the theory that volcanoes emissions are dominant is (IMHO) easily refuted by looking at the data, and your article does not seem to mention that.

In any case I’m perfectly relaxed, thanks for your concern.

By: Frank Ch. Eigler

Frank Ch. Eigler — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:13:26 +0000

Xan: http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Carboniferous_climate.html may relax you.

By: Xan

Xan — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:57:43 +0000

@Hajdi: do you have any data or citation of published source to back your claim? All the CO2 concentration graphs from the last century show a smooth growing curve, in accordance with the theory of its antropogenic origin. If volcanoes were the main responsibles, the graph should be a series of sudden spikes, one per each eruption.

By: Robert Kaiser

Robert Kaiser — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:43:21 +0000

To say it pretty straight-forward, we are doomed.
I’m pretty sure that our society in its current form will die out to a large part because of the damage that we have already done to this world. I’m almost convinced it would even happen if we stopped doing anything destructible right at this moment, but given that as you describe it’s pretty clear that we won’t even be level off at a decent state and that doesn’t even count the majority of the world’s population (see esp. large parts of China, India, Russia, Africa, but still some parts of the Americas and even Europe) not having our standards of living yet but wanting to gain that, we’ll become a lot worse on a global level, and the problems we are seeing and analyzing now are just the beginning.
Despite that, I’m also pretty sure that small numbers of humans will survive, either on some special habitats on what will be left of Earth or, as Stephen Hawkins suggests, in space. I’m too much a positivist to suggest that humanity as a whole will extinct itself, even though I’m realist enough to see that large quantities of it will, unfortunately.
The one hope we have is to make this current high culture last somewhat longer and have more ideas on how to prevent complete extinction by doing our parts to slow it down and give humanity a bit more time. And yes, that’s where everyone can help.