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2006-11-02 Britain

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Posted by .com 2006-11-02 04:05|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Were global warming a real problem and it's not, there is a ridiculously simply solution - cover the roofs of buildings with a reflective coating (a common practice here in Oz).

I really should crunch the numbers but it comes down to how much you can reduce solar heating on a watts per sq meter basis times the area over which its reduced, versus the global total of supposed global warming calculated again as watts per sq M.

Posted by phil_b 2006-11-02 04:32|| 2006-11-02 04:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Global warming is a lot of hot air.
Sure it's happening but we can't stop it. And the planet has heated and cooled many times in history: change is NORMAL.

To stay the same would be unnatural.

We have to evolve and change and move with it, not try to stop it!!!

Anyway, they are ensuring nuclear power gets a ramp up so buy uranium shares, people, it's now inevitable (though I believe not healthy). Paladin are good, as are Summit Resources.

Posted by anon1 2006-11-02 07:47|| 2006-11-02 07:47|| Front Page Top

#3 The people that output these scenarios are idjits. Unless there is a sudden change of external and internal conditions, the changes are gradual and adjusted for.

For instance, a warmer climate would mean more evaporation and thus water vapor released as precipitation. In the case of polar regions, that translates to more snow and more deposits on ice sheets. That also would mean higher albedo as the reflective surface would increase.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-11-02 09:31|| 2006-11-02 09:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Sure, you can mock them as 'alarmists', but we will see who is laughing when Earth is overpopulated and uninhabitable.

I've read the Club of Rome reports and The Population Bomb and I know for a fact if we don't take immediate and drastic action that we humans will be utterly and irredeemably screwed by the time the 1980s roll around.

Posted by SteveS 2006-11-02 14:31|| 2006-11-02 14:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Steve, it's already too late. The world as we knew it ended in 1986, and we are all having a collective delusion, a la Ambrose Bierce's An Incident at Owl Creek Bridge

Posted by Slaviger Angomong7708 2006-11-02 15:17|| 2006-11-02 15:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Up to 200 million people could become refugees as their homes are hit by drought or flood...

Unless they move uphill a few feet.

DOH! ~(_8^(|)

Posted by Parabellum 2006-11-02 18:42|| 2006-11-02 18:42|| Front Page Top

#7 very nice Homer - *I applaud* ©¿©

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-11-02 19:38|| 2006-11-02 19:38|| Front Page Top

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