It was 104 today

[NickC]

yet the glaciers keep melting.Thats what will change the ocean currents and have the biggests impact on weather and life as we know it

It has happened before. It will happen again.

I am glad to live in a time (in the Earth's elliptical orbit around the sun) when the planet is relatively warm, and not in a period of glaciation.

The carbon credit scam is much like the tulip craze in Holland all those years ago (only it smells worse and isn't as pretty).

[cbass]

Well there is alot of evidence that says the Ice ages happen quite rapidly like in a matter of a couple years so there is still hope that we will see one.
Lots of cold fresh water entering the ocean (like from melting glaciers)seems to be the catalyst

[Reeltarded]

Industry must grow to meet the demands of a massing population.

When there are 10b people it won't be any better.

[cbass]

True but we will evantualy reach a tipping point and mother nature will start thinning us out.

[cbass]

Theres athunder cloud coming right at us except its coming from the east kinda wierd.Please let it rain.I haven't rolled up my truck windows in twomonths

[NickC]

True but we will evantualy reach a tipping point and mother nature will start thinning us out.

I don't believe in "mother nature" (or Gaia in the Greek mythological sense of the term) as some intelligent (or even sentient) guiding force of the Earth. I don't take issue with anyone that does either.

We live in a vast cosmological array of complex systems and subsystems ruled by the laws of physics (which we scarcely understand .... yet). The truth is, the universe is fantastically violent and turbulent. Our little spinning orb of a planet is a miracle, when considering the gazillions of variables that went into its' formation and allowed life to gain a foothold and flourish.

And now there seems to be some confirmation from the large hadron collider of the existence of the theoretical Higgs Boson. As a result, some physicists are advancing the notion, at least the possibility theoretically, of the existence of parallel universes.

Boggles the mind.

[Reeltarded]

Over population looks like a problem to me. Dont look at me. I never had kids. Whew. Lucky you.

Hmm.. Science is awesome. I still don't buy a particle that defines gravity, yet. This shouldn't be cause for alarm. I don't believe in much of anything.

We don't understand much, but they keep talking like it's all news.

If I hear one more story about a newly dicovered exoplanet Imma gonna puke. Why not a story of a tree found growing on a mountain, or a yeast culture found in a bread loaf.

-yawn-

There is more outreach (degreed explainers) than science. A shame. A waste. It's all mostly commercials for the somewhat stalled state of major discovery. LHC aside, I suppose.. Still don't believe it does what they say)

I watch Ted Talks. Some of them are entertaining, but few of them have much intrest to me in the end. I am not so interested in the human intrest crap. On with the depth. Lets have the beans.

[cbass]

True but we will evantualy reach a tipping point and mother nature will start thinning us out.

I don't believe in "mother nature" (or Gaia in the Greek mythological sense of the term) as some intelligent (or even sentient) guiding force of the Earth. I don't take issue with anyone that does either.

I wasn't referin to mother nature as god.

[Cygnus X1]

I once thought the earth was overpopulated until the first time I took a long distance flight.
In a jet.

It must be the fault of all those plants.
There is an incredible amount of wilderness, and not much for population.

"Wigzog, this planet looks virtually uninhabited. I say we move in".
"Copy that Erwuj. Will make ready"...

[cbass]

We should bulldoze all that stupid wilderness and build something useful like some stripmalls and tgifridays.

[Reeltarded]

I once thought the earth was overpopulated until the first time I took a long distance flight.
In a jet.

It must be the fault of all those plants.
There is an incredible amount of wilderness, and not much for population.

"Wigzog, this planet looks virtually uninhabited. I say we move in".
"Copy that Erwuj. Will make ready"...

I hear ya, but it isn't about a place to lay down, it's the economy of eating and where you can work for a buck.

[cbass]

I wonder how many acres of land it takes to feed NYC for a year?

[cbass]

Theres athunder cloud coming right at us except its coming from the east kinda wierd.Please let it rain.I haven't rolled up my truck windows in twomonths

I rolledupmy truck windows and we didn't even get a drop.All thyat for nothin

[Reeltarded]

I wonder how many acres of land it takes to feed NYC for a year?

I saw a thing about a food bank system In NYC yesterday. 70 tons a week I think was that number, and I am sure most people in the city feed themselves.

[Jana]

Here's an interesting chart showing how much and of what kind of food the average person consumes in a year:

http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/amer ... fographic/