The Globe is Not Warming

Damn those humans and their desire not to die or have their world radically altered by climatic catastrophe. How very short sighted of them. Thankfully we have the elite of the world to tell us how we shouldn't be short sighted. Drowned babies everywhere will remember Crissaegrim Clutterbuck as someone with foresight!


Spin some more, we're going to need a lot of rotary fans anyway.

Actually, I was speaking with a dry tongue in a wet cheek. I really don't remember the last three periods of glaciation, so you can stop IM'ing me about the Secret of Eternal Life.

And the pictures you sent me of drowned babies was fairly tasteless.

A fact I am all too aware of. Indeed, I am currently undergoing humorification training in order to correct it. Thanks for your concern.

Humorlessness affects over 5.9% of the population and has yet to get a notable celebrity to lead the fight for a cure. The heads of Americans with Humor Impairment had approached the producers of Comic Relief as the tie-in seemed kind of natural, but then we saw a trailer for Robin Williams' new movie so there went that. We have solicitations out to Jerry Lewis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Juliette Lewis, and Carrot Top. We may have to settle for Ed McMahon.

Perhaps we can hold an in-game fundraiser. I'll bet Spanky, Alfafa, and Darla could put on a talent show in the RoadHouse!

Must not go back very far... before 1971 Bangladesh was East Pakistan.

P2

Do you think Human activity is affecting the environment?

Such a general question should have a general answer.

Yes I do, just by breathing you are effecting the envrionment.

I recently saw a show (Nova) on global dimming. Seems that the light getting to earth has dimmed over the past few years and the current thought is that it is pollution particulates.

But, even with the dimming, the temperature has not gone down, we've had the hottest records in the past 14 years, the most record breaking being 2005.

So here's the deal... the polution that is making greenhouse gasses is heating the earth while the particulates in such polution are blocking out light slowing the heating.

So if we get rid of polution particulates (dust) but not invisible greenhouse gasses we could speed up warming!

Coolies! (so to speak)

Or we could just wait a couple of decades for 2billion+ Asians to start being as profligate with energy use as the US - the waste heat alone could be enough.

Reminds me of a SciFi story where some planet had become so dense that even with energy generation made utterly clean, there was so much waste heat that they had to cover the planet with a reflective shroud to keep all that extra solar heat from pouring in. How does that restatement of the laws of thermodynamics go?

1. You can't win
   
2. You can't break even
   
3. You can't stop playing the game
   

We can get there if we really try. Per ardua ad astra.

Contrariwise, nuking the entire Middle East would make a really nice dust cloud, and as that three line graph above shows, dust seems to be strongly correlated with lowering the temperature. I know of someone who seems a little too anxious to loose those nukes; he could then claim it was out of concern for the environment because he is the Environmentally Conscious Decider Guy. Quite the Presidental legacy, no?

Obligatory Phoenix Fun Trailer: These two nuns and an alligator walk into a bar.... (Hey, I'm trying! )

Let's take a look at the REAL story behind global warming...

*picks up globe off of the table*
hmm...
*turns on heating system*

1 hour later...

*picks up globe off of the table*
Hmm... the earth is getting warm! I think I'll call it "global warming"!
*goes off to write a huge scientific report on how the globe is warming*

Which is why I said nothing will be done until it's too late.

Isn't this how Casinos work?