I read in 2000 that the earth's temperature is going to go up by 1 degree in 100 years.

Know, we have had maybe 0.1 degree increase since 2000 and I feel it is already hot.

I wonder what 1 degree will do in the next 94 years.

heck just get on the train with others, don't worry about it you won't be here. Why give a minute thought to the future?

yeah, fuck the future what have they ever done for you.
:rant:

Its been like 80 degrees for the past week and a half here, right in the middle of winter. Thats messed up. I mean its great and all but...

The earth goes thru various cycles from iceage to iceage and so on. We've only been measuring stuff for maybe 100 years - compared to the length of time changes occur in the eaths cycles 100 years is less than insignificant - so it's impossible to look at any changes and say we are a specific cause, any cause we could make is far less than any natural variation.

Sure - we'll impact the planet, we'll suck it dry and in 200 million years from now - the earth will still be here with brand new Oil & Gas fields created from the dust of our long forgotten society.

Drew I agree with your post, but wonder are humans destroying things at a faster rate then the earth can repair them? In the past nature didn't have the crap that is out there now so how much of a negative impact are we making?

Drew yup I've heard that arguement 1000 x's and it still doesn't matter. Just because the Earths tempature runs in cycles still doesn't mean that man made global warming does not matter. It merely speeds up the date of the planets demise.

(not that you are saying it but) To proclaim that global warmiung does not exist because of these cycles is a myth. The greenhouse effect is a scientific fact. The increase in co2 emissions along with the massive destruction of oxygen producing plants will have an effect.

Originally posted by DrewM
We've only been measuring stuff for maybe 100 years - compared to the length of time changes occur in the eaths cycles 100 years is less than insignificant - so it's impossible to look at any changes and say we are a specific cause, any cause we could make is far less than any natural variation.


Not so right. Scientists have other ways to measure climate changes. Their concern about global warming started when they measured past climate by analyzing snow layers in the poles.

Here is an explanation of their method on a Nasa site :
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Paleoclimatology_IceCores/

Throughout each year, layers of snow fall over the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. Each layer of snow is different in chemistry and texture, summer snow differing from winter snow. Summer brings 24 hours of sunlight to the polar regions, and the top layer of the snow changes in texture—not melting exactly, but changing enough to be different from the snow it covers. The season turns cold and dark again, and more snow falls, forming the next layers of snow. Each layer gives scientists a treasure trove of information about the climate each year. Like marine sediment cores, an ice core provides a vertical timeline of past climates stored in ice sheets and mountain glaciers.

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To pry climate clues out of the ice, scientists began to drill long cores out of the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica in the late 1960s. By the time Alley and the GISP2 project finished in the early 1990s, they had pulled a nearly 2-mile-long core (3,053.44 meters) from the Greenland ice sheet, providing a record of at least the past 110,000 years. Even older records going back about 750,000 years have come out of Antarctica. Scientists have also taken cores from thick mountain glaciers in places such as the Andes Mountains in Peru and Bolivia, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, and the Himalayas in Asia.