"Global Warming" or "Interesting Debate On Munk"

Amake · 03-06-2010, 07:11 AM

...Should I repeat myself, or do you need a moment to collect your thoughts or something?

Professor Smarmiarty · 03-06-2010, 07:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Invisible Queen

...Should I repeat myself, or do you need a moment to collect your thoughts or something?

I was trying to workout whether you are trolling or not.
Seriously,global warming is good because less people will die in the winter...... I mean holy shit is that stupid. I mean maybe in the intervening time we manage to evolve photosynthesis then that is a valid complaint.

Ibian · 03-06-2010, 09:24 AM

Climate change is happening. The trick is, it has always been happening, long before we started influencing our surroundings.

And that's the basic problem with these types of discussions. When people speak of "climate change", it is almost always implied to mean "man-made climate change", and almost as often "it's bad".

And, well, some of it can be. For example, if we had done nothing, if we had never evolved out of our old hunter-gatherer lifestyle, we would eventually have a new ice age. It might even have been here now.

But that's assuming the people saying we have a meaningful influence on the climate are right. However, under that same assumption, we don't want to reverse what we have been doing for the past several hundred years, because a new ice age would be catastrophic on a scale that slowly rising sea levels and somewhat warmer temperatures could never be. (by the way, the sea level has also been rising since long before we started doing anything about it)

As to the story here. Blame the trigger happy people with guns.

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03-06-2010, 09:24 AM	#3
Ibian Goomba Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 20	Climate change is happening. The trick is, it has always been happening, long before we started influencing our surroundings. And that's the basic problem with these types of discussions. When people speak of "climate change", it is almost always implied to mean "man-made climate change", and almost as often "it's bad". And, well, some of it can be. For example, if we had done nothing, if we had never evolved out of our old hunter-gatherer lifestyle, we would eventually have a new ice age. It might even have been here now. But that's assuming the people saying we have a meaningful influence on the climate are right. However, under that same assumption, we don't want to reverse what we have been doing for the past several hundred years, because a new ice age would be catastrophic on a scale that slowly rising sea levels and somewhat warmer temperatures could never be. (by the way, the sea level has also been rising since long before we started doing anything about it) As to the story here. Blame the trigger happy people with guns. Last edited by Ibian; 03-06-2010 at 09:34 AM.