I haven't watched tv in years.

Lol, Galway. It's endlessly fascinating. Climate change denial=the white mans new burden!:grin:

I remember Y2K also! The sky was falling then to.

And the prevailing thought about this is we don't care. Let it get warmer or cooler. Its caller winter and summer. Relax. The world isn't ending yet. But it will. Eventually all things will end but you the posters here won't witness it.

Bottom line is once Iran /Isreal go at it within the next couple /few years climate change will be the least of our worries .

Agreed.

I should say I am more concerned about why my lawnmower didn't start yesterday than global warming. It gives me more trouble than the climate ever will.

Bingo! ;)

Because my work is at sea, the ever changing weather has always fascinated me. I was there to see the height of the warming trend, and its effects on my bottom line. About four years ago, I began to notice an opposite direction in the weather. You may think I a nut, but I firmly believe I will see an ice age begin in my lifetime. Unlike warming, cooling can take hold in the span of a decade. The very best minds on the study of the suns activity, have warned governments, ice age by 2030...you've been warned!!:grin:

I think there is one point that hasn't been put in this debate (is it really like that grown ppl debate? :evil:)

''GLOBAL Warming'' as most people know it is really kind of a myth. It is some kind of trend launched in the end of the 90s.
The view people will get from it is also biased depending on where you live. Seems that for a lot of americans Al Gore is the guy that discovered it (that arrivist xxxx ?:confused:) for exemple.

We (we as in us/the others/you/me/zombie media ppl...) mostly hear of global warming in documentaries often presenting it on a really, really, really mystical point of view (immensity, eternity, human's spirit, superior power, etc), or in (sometimes silly) ecologists speaking like they live in magical world or the opposite, speeches denying it with only the speaker's verve to back its opinion:-P :eek:

Well, enough of my personal opinion of what's wrong with our short-sighted view of reality.

The fact is Global warming will not be that much global. In some places the climate will be hot and more dry (in desert areas for exemple) and in other places you'll get a longer cold season.


My point is that yeah, global warming is xxxxxxxxx. But climate change is definitely not.
We are living it dudes, only a blind man could not see some slight but visible changes in the course of the seasons, the rhythm of the storms, the plant pollinization(not sure its the right english word=> plants sputting yellow things that make you sneeze) and the areas these plants are growing.

Are we responsible of it ? We don't know actually. But we surely don't help ;)
And all the speeches for/against global warming hide the real big deal: we should prepare for climate changes whether or not we are responsible of it.

I personnaly think Europe will live a huge change in the course of the seasons in a close future. Jet stream going off its path and stuff...Seems already that nothing is making a buffer between hot air from africa and cold air from siberia.

:)

[edit] Wow, didn't think i wrote so much :p Thanks for those who read me ! [/edit]

I wouldn't argue that there is climate change. But what is said will happen will happen without any help from earths inhabitants. It will do what its going to do and there's nothing you can do. We can't prevent its eventual end no more than we can prevent a huge asteroid hitting earth.