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Warming nears point of no return, scientists say ( .. and then We'RE REallY ReallY DooMeD!!)
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| 6/7/12
| David Perlman
Posted on 06/07/2012 7:46:08 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
The most recent of those was the sporadic end of the last ice age that began 14,000 years ago and shifted rapidly from warm to cold and then back to warm again over a few thousand years. That period saw the extinction of half the world's large animal life, and then the spread of an expanding human population to every continent on the planet.
As though all those large animal species evolved to their then-current glacial period size over a measly 100,000 or so years since the previous (and increasingly warmer) past four interglacial periods. Those large land mammals got fried by radiation from a
huge zeta-pinch aurora (see PDFs number 15, 18, 24, and 25 at link) about 12,000 or so years ago.
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posted on
06/07/2012 8:25:12 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: NormsRevenge
They likened the potential impact of the forces to previous major changes - both gradual and abrupt - in the planet's history that triggered mass extinctions and expansions, and produced completely new worldwide environments. They say that like it's a bad thing (to quote about twenty different Freepers).
Besides, it just how EARTH works. Adapt or die. All the money in the world cannot change it.
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posted on
06/07/2012 8:25:42 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
To: NormsRevenge
Anybody who follows this stuff consistently can tell you we reach this “tipping point” every couple of months - and more frequently if there’s a “climate change” conference coming up.
For example, from a news story on the “United Nations Climate Change Science Compendium Report” (UNEP) right around the time of the Copenhagen conference: “The UNEP 2009 report indicates that climate tipping points, which will result in irreversible accelerating changes to the planetary ecosystem, have already been been reached and possibly surpassed.”
So apparently we’ve already been there, we are now three years into being doomed, and there’s not much point in losing a whole lot more sleep over it.
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posted on
06/07/2012 8:27:12 PM PDT
by
Stosh
To: NormsRevenge
"Unchecked population growth"
Well, all those concerned with large C footprints here in the US should seriously consider merging themselves with the Universe to save Gaia.
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posted on
06/07/2012 8:28:03 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: StormEye
YOU forgot relinquishing our sovereignty, and turning over governance to the U.N.
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posted on
06/07/2012 8:29:06 PM PDT
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
To: NormsRevenge
To: Frank Sheed
The latest sunspot cycle is the weakest in 100 years.Weak sunspot cycles historically are accompanied by an increase in Solar Flares .
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posted on
06/07/2012 8:32:37 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Rurudyne; steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; xcamel; AdmSmith; ...
They passed the point of no return on their reputations long ago.
Thanks NormsRevenge.
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posted on
06/07/2012 8:34:44 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: NormsRevenge
I guess it’s all over for Earth. I think we should chip in to send these scientists to colonize a planet where global warming is in check: Mars.
I’m in for 100 bucks.
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posted on
06/07/2012 8:35:56 PM PDT
by
bigred44
To: NormsRevenge
AaaaaaahhhhhhhhHHHH!!!!!!!!
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posted on
06/07/2012 8:36:21 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live athrough it anyway)
To: NormsRevenge
THe Moslem extremists and religious fanatics, aided by the Communists, are doing their damnest to lower the world’s population. Funny. I don’t here the envirowackos complaining about this genocide.
To: NormsRevenge
"The Earth is reaching a "tipping point" in climate change" Didn't the Left say this in the 1970s about global cooling and the coming ice age?
To: aruanan
they certainly know that there were many periods of time in earth history, some recent, when warming was greater than the modest increase ending in 1998, sometimes much, MUCH greater and there was no "point of no return," but a return to colder, sometimes much, MUCH colder climates. They also know that there were many periods in earth's history where CO2 levels were many times greater than they are now and there was no "point of no return," but an overall trend to lower and lower levels of atmospheric CO2 until we are where we are now in a period of unprecedented low levels of CO2. Since they know that both of these things are without dispute, and since they continue to promote something that is completely contradictory to natural history, then we know that they are deceptive, untrustworthy, unscientific, and deserving to be thrown out on their asses and then locked up in jail for fraud.
I just added that to my profile page on facebook under 'religion' (I put my religion as the 'Cult of Global Warming') and just added that portion of your quote to it. Thank you! (I hope it's ok... :)
To: NormsRevenge
Does that mean no more Ice Ages?
Yippee, if so.
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posted on
06/07/2012 8:44:37 PM PDT
by
Chgogal
(WSJ, Coulter, Kristol, Krauthammer, Rove et al., STFU. Thank you.)
To: NormsRevenge
I can envision AlGore in tights and a cape as EarthBoy, prancing out to save us.
To: NormsRevenge
Why oh why can’t these beautiful sages of our times be leaders by example and leave their condo’s and seaside mansions and show us poor, ignorant, beings the way.......
I mean, I would be more than interested to watch and learn....it might take me a while though...I am really dense.
I might even seek investors and create a new TV genre and call it a “Reality Show” which would chronicle their wisdom of example.
Any takers?
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posted on
06/07/2012 9:02:50 PM PDT
by
Puckster
To: NormsRevenge
Duh, wasn’t the “Medieval Warm” a lot warmer than it is today?
BTW, if we are going to be cooler than the Medieval Warm when we reach our “Point of No Return,” then maybe we can follow them after they reached and then returned from their “Point of No Return?”
BTW, BTW, since CO2 was unknown then, who did the “Medieval Warmies” blame? Since human nature doesn’t handle REALITY very well, they just MUST have had something or someone to blame!
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posted on
06/07/2012 9:06:00 PM PDT
by
Graewoulf
((Dictator Baby-Doc Barack's obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND U.S. Constitution.))
To: NormsRevenge
Unchecked population growth, the disappearance of critical plant and animal species,Oh i think we could do without radical Muslim's And poison ivy ,oak and sumac I don't have a beef with animals they are tasty and some are fun to watch ..
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posted on
06/07/2012 9:11:56 PM PDT
by
ATOMIC_PUNK
(Any man may make a mistake ; none but a fool will persist in it . { Latin proverb })
To: NormsRevenge
Well, yeah, but all I really care about is whether the snail darter is likely to survive.
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posted on
06/07/2012 9:23:39 PM PDT
by
dagogo redux
(A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
To: NormsRevenge
“The Earth is reaching a “tipping point” in climate change that will lead to increasingly rapid and irreversible destruction of the global environment...”
Is that all there is?
Is that all there is?
Well if that’s all there is,
Let’s break out the booze and have a ball...
If that’s all...
(Apologies to Ms. Peggy Lee)
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