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By stefan
#27455
suspendedHatch wrote:Large parts of the US are in drought. Global warming :thumbdown:


Global warming my ass, we didn't even have a summer over here, just f*cking rain and low temp's, clouds everywere... it was like fall all summer long.
And now we're being rewarded with even more wind, rain, clouds... luckily not to a point were it becomes a problem tho.

It's a natural thing temperatures rise and drop, and droughts fluctuate in severeness and longivity.
Did you know that the African deserts were at least twice as large thousands of years ago as they are now?
Did you know the earth warmed up a couple of degrees Celsius in the hundreds of years, prior to the next ice age?
Did you know that medieval Europe was about 5°C warmer than it is now? (though I don't think that measuring was as exact as it is now, but archeology figured that one out).

'Global warming' is just the next stupid hype, doom-scenario's copied by people who didn't do more research then effectively 'hey mum, what's global warming?'
The earth warms up by 2 or 3°C, big deal... I've read several articles in the past that the earth warms itself up, just like it has always done in the past; it warms up, it cools down.
But doomsday scenario's just sell more newspapers, so that's almost all you hear about.

So yeah, I pulled out my charcoal canister a looooong time ago, about at the same time I learned to think for myself in stead of listening to other peoples 2nd hand opinions.

Ow, and please don't think of this as an attack on you or anything, just my opinion ;)
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By teal_dx
#27458 lol off topic a little? I'm gonna split this thread and put it in the junk yard. Definitely a good topic for debate, but I want to keep this thread clean with tech :thumb:
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By Graham
#27510 Yeah 100% agree, the earth has natural rises and falls in temperature. Sure, wasting energy isnt going to help but we cant stop the earth getting warmer if it wants too!

To be honest, i wish it would hurry up - its been freezing here and our summer was shite! :lol:
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By Gorveatt
#27512 Global warming is a bunch of bullshit, it's just another Y2K scare tactic, i mean how many times has the earth warmed up, and cooled down, then warm up then cool down through out it's lifespan? millions. It's part of the earths natural development
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By york62
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Gorveatt wrote:Global warming is a bunch of bullshit, it's just another Y2K scare tactic, i mean how many times has the earth warmed up, and cooled down, then warm up then cool down through out it's lifespan? millions. It's part of the earths natural development


i agree, but our pollution, is not helping the situation.
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By Gorveatt
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york62 wrote:
Gorveatt wrote:Global warming is a bunch of bullshit, it's just another Y2K scare tactic, i mean how many times has the earth warmed up, and cooled down, then warm up then cool down through out it's lifespan? millions. It's part of the earths natural development


i agree, but our pollution, is not helping the situation.


I do agree with taht too, but have you ever seen the statistics on it? only like 5% of CO2 emissions are created by man, and of that only something like .5% of that is from cars
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By Graham
#27573 Thing is, i was watching a programme on it and there was a forest fire in South America

That fire alone released more CO2 into the atmosphere than Britain does in a year...

Kinda puts it into perspective
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By vtec_gloucester
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Graham wrote:its been freezing here and our summer was shite! :lol:



what summer?

pretty sure we missed out summer all together! :(


tbh, if global warming is killing our planet and they say its going to blow up in XXXXX amount of years... who cares? i'll be dead by then!

and i know they say its all about looking after the earth today for our kids tomorrow but... meh :D
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By vtec_gloucester
#27649 lol. you got about 13 days more summer than us then :lol:

id love it for global warming to kick in... bring on the heat i say!



well saying that, us brits are the worse for weather! we moan when its cold and we bitch when its to hot. :lol:
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By Gorveatt
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Graham wrote:Thing is, i was watching a programme on it and there was a forest fire in South America

That fire alone released more CO2 into the atmosphere than Britain does in a year...

Kinda puts it into perspective


I'd like to know how much CO2 the fires in California are making right now