'One Degree And We're Done For' (Global Warming)

New Scientist ^ | 9-27-2006 | Pred Pearce

[bboop]

hahahah, ONE DEGREE and we are done for?? Better stop with the hot air then, you blathering faux-scientists. Better shut down the Senate, too. Stopping Teddy alone could help a LOT.

[rahbert]

and Algore is the Stalin..

[GreenAccord]

Wait...I get it...we ARE doomed.

What we're all forgetting is to convert the 1 degree Celsius warming to Fahrenheit. If it goes up 1 degree Celsius, that would be nine-fifths plus 32 degrees F. That would make the warmest summer days more than 125 degrees F.

I better give generously to an environmental cause soon. And raise my taxes. Yeah, do that.

Phew, crisis averted. That was close.

[pabianice]

Oh, please...!

[Centurion2000]

Further global warming of 1 °C defines a critical threshold. Beyond that we will likely see changes that make Earth a different planet than the one we know."

Earthquakes, volcanoes
Cats and Dogs living together
MASS HYSTERIA ....

[KamperKen]

"and Algore is the Stalin."

lol! Indeed!

[Turbopilot]

The temperature changes by more than one degree every hour in most places on the planet. If anti-business political groups weren't paying scientists lots of money to take all these temperature measurements and extrapolate them into a model that gives the output that is desired politically, who would even notice an average increase of a degree?

[kAcknor]

We both signed up in 1998!
OMG! It's our fault!

Hey! I signed up in 1998. I demand that it be my fault too!

[Puppage]

Earth is already as warm as at any time in the last 10,000 years

Why, just this morning I was watching my local weather guy. He put up the numbers...

High 73 Low 49

Record High 72 in 7994 bc

[colorado tanker]

Well, we are near the top temperatures of an interglacial period, according to the Antarctic ice core studies. Which means that very soon, relatively speaking, the problem will likely be plummeting temperatures as Earth goes into another glacial period. Bad news, that, for Northern Europe in particular.

[DBrow]

I really like that analogy. It works on many levels.

Speaking of Russians, a person that never comes up in the media with respect to the global warming issue is Mikhail Gorbachev, his Gorbachev Institute, The Gorbachev Foundation of North America, Green Cross International, or Global Green USA.

These organizations are all active in promoting sustainable this-and-that, green ecology, and global warming issues yet appear to work behind the scenes.

[Hegemony Cricket]

Hmmmm. I would speculate this guy enjoys more than six degrees of separation from sanity...

[My2Cents]

This article is more junk science from a supposedly reputable source. Whenever I see a "scientific" article about global warming, I think "agenda-driven."

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

Don't we also need the obligatory pirate chart?

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Jim Hansen? I thought he was dead?

[SF Republican]

Heard a Berkley Professor say the other day San Francisco weather will be like Tijuana's in 50 years; sounds terrible, if he had said it would be like San Diego (its next door neighbor) or La Jolla, that would sound pretty good.

[My2Cents]

shhh...we'll get banned. ;-)

[decimon]

hahahah, ONE DEGREE and we are done for??

That one degree is in the new measure of 'Celtigrade.' In Celtigrade you're scrood no matter what. Unless, of course, you are Celt.

[My2Cents]

LOL...Good point. I love San Diego.