The Big Melt (global warming)

windy miller · #51 02-04-2007, 10:55 PM

This is an interesting view...about off setting your own personal carbon emissions...One of the things you can do is buy a tree when you fly..to counterbalance the emissions!

!...there is a European site as well as a US site...Here in the UK we've just had a new green tax on all flights...hopefully that money will be spent wisely!!

http://www.carbonfootprint.com/

UKjovi · #52 02-05-2007, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by windy miller

Here in the UK we've just had a new green tax on all flights...hopefully that money will be spent wisely!!

http://www.carbonfootprint.com/

HAHAHA yeah right , that money will go stright into surporting the troops in Iraq or something else . I doubt very much if it will be used to help the enviroment .

#53 02-05-2007, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by RS8MB0R8

You may not want to believe the glossy, politically-skewed version of the report but ask yourself this? If the politicians have their own personal agenda, what benefits come from saying that human activity IS responsible for climate change exactly?

Its very simple. Money. Man-made global warming is big business. Movies have been made about it. There are magazines devoted to it. People get paid thousands to speak about it. There has been billions of dollars spent on studying it. If man-made global warming is proven false, all that money dries up and those people are out of jobs.

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You may see the intervention as a political group presenting an over-exaggerated version of the 'truth' but maybe, on the flip-side, they have toned down the 'real' report because if we all knew how bad things REALLY are (or are set to become), there would be severe repercussions and civil disorder? That possibility has as much credibility as your speculation that they have doctored the report in such a way as to over-exaggerate the effects we have on our environment.

If this were the case, why would scientists who worked on the real report come out against it and say its not what they found, and that what they found is there is no proof of man-made global warming? If the politicians were really "trying to save us all from panic" why wouldnt there be scientists who worked on the report coming out and expressing that concern?

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We can hypothesise all we want but the facts presented thus far all imply that humans DO affect the climate and that global warming is influenced by our day-to-day living.

No. They. Dont. How many times are we going to go around this circle? The facts are not there.

Jim Bon Jovi · #54 02-05-2007, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by wolfgang

Its very simple. Money. Man-made global warming is big business. Movies have been made about it. There are magazines devoted to it. People get paid thousands to speak about it. There has been billions of dollars spent on studying it. If man-made global warming is proven false, all that money dries up and those people are out of jobs.

thats one of the dumbest conspiracy theories ive ever heard in my life.

*puts on tinfoil hat*

RS8MB0R8 · #55 02-05-2007, 06:37 PM

Since you highlighted and commented on most of my post wolfgang, allow me to highlight that last little bit of it as I think it sums up the camp you will fall into rather well -

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If we go on thinking we can live the way we do and then, one day, proof comes out that is completely undeniable even to those most opposed to the notion that we are to blame for such severe climate change but..... oh dear, it's too late to do anything - what then exactly?

I think the consequences will be a bit more serious than, "Oh well, nevermind. I guess we were wrong afterall!"

The Big Melt (global warming)

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