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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall
But you're exaggerating—that's the problem here.
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If by exageration it means me, sitting accross a table full research papers, books, articles, studies, statistcs, etc from well known scientists, which clearly states that Its coming and coming faster than we thought; than i guess i'm really exagerating. Its not my 'own' opinion. I'm just concerned and trying to convey the message instead of an argueing.
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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall
As a matter of fact, it's commonly held that we're currently nearing the end of an interglacial period of the Pleistocene ice age—periods of (typically) 10 to 20 thousand years where it's warmer than the median temperature for that era. Let's be clear that calling a small temperature variation in Europe an ice age makes no sense. Especially when the timeframe is so short.
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Its a fact now that CO2 level has a relationship directly with the temperature (greenhouse gasses). CO2 levels are climbing 300 parts per million for the first time in the history of earth, is it still not alarming? A number that never went over 300 now stands on 375 (thats present). Even if you're right, notice that after ever warm period, ice age approaches really fast. (
http://www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/wa...on_dioxide.jpg)
Now as for Europe, notice this
picture. Ice in Arctic and Greenland is melting with the speed of 1.2 million square km per decade (size of Ontario) and temperatures are rising 1.2 degrees every decade. If all that fresh water makes it way to the Atlantic ocean, it will shut that pump that warms Europe resulting in sudden ice age.
It's indeed "extremist deep-end of politics (stated by:artdutra04)." The
MAIN PURPOSE of starting this thread was not to start another argument on whether Global Warming exists or not.
I'm going to summarize the Purpose again ( i think i did a bad job in doing so in first post). Whether Global Warming Exists or not, Earth will play its game and Humans will have to face the consequences. If its not global warming, We all know for fact that earth will die one day (might be a blackhole, or our sun). Although in those kind of catastrophic events, no body would care about FIRST, but FIRST cares about that time right now. Thats why, we (FIRSTers) are being prepared right now to solve the problems, humans are going to face in future. When i look at first, i don't see bunch of kids building robots. I see teams helping
disable people with their mobility, i see teams with innovative ideas to
solve current problems, i see teams holding hands together to
help people/kids. And believe it or not, but we're the ones on whose shoulders will come the responsibility of human survival (lets just stay out of the debate of if its gonna be 2050 or later).
Something i would like to point out is Bases outside Earth. NASA has already started to think about a moon base, while at the same time a lot of scientists are working to wards the goal of landing man on mars. This can be a baby step to wards the permanent Mars City (which i think is quite possible). Because i believe that if humans have to survive, they've to leave Earth eventually; so why not start preparing for that right now.
Imad