Apocalypse now: how mankind is sleepwalking to the end of the Earth
Floods, storms and droughts. Melting Arctic ice, shrinking glaciers, oceans turning to acid. The world's top scientists warned last week that dangerous climate change is taking place today, not the day after tomorrow. You don't believe it? Then, says Geoffrey Lean, read this...
06 February 2005
Future historians, looking back from a much hotter and less hospitable world, are likely to play special attention to the first few weeks of 2005. As they puzzle over how a whole generation could have sleepwalked into disaster - destroying the climate that has allowed human civilisation to flourish over the past 11,000 years - they may well identify the past weeks as the time when the last alarms sounded.
Originally posted by dean7879
Apocalypse now: how mankind is sleepwalking to the end of the Earth
Floods, storms and droughts. Melting Arctic ice, shrinking glaciers, oceans turning to acid. The world's top scientists warned last week that dangerous climate change is taking place today, not the day after tomorrow. You don't believe it? Then, says Geoffrey Lean, read this...
06 February 2005Future historians, looking back from a much hotter and less hospitable world, are likely to play special attention to the first few weeks of 2005. As they puzzle over how a whole generation could have sleepwalked into disaster - destroying the climate that has allowed human civilisation to flourish over the past 11,000 years - they may well identify the past weeks as the time when the last alarms sounded.
I am surprised a person who questions official positions so much as you do, Dean, is simply towing the doomsayer line on this one.
It is in fact far more likely that future generations will look back and laugh at how hysterically panicky and exaggerative people at this time were about manmade climate change.
i think there will be a major catastrophe which will happen within the next 100 years
look how we continue to screw this planet up
''People have no idea of the abyss we are staring into or the nature of the world we are leaving for our children to endure and most people don’t seem to care''.it probably wont happen in our life time but what about our children and grandchildren? what kinda life are we leaving for them?
as i said before, humanity will be here in 200 years, but unless we stop messing up the planet and unless we quit all these wars, then there wont be much of a left to live on
Originally posted by PVS
so global warming does not exist or it really doesnt matter?
It is startlingly exaggerated, normally for publicity or political purposes. Science involved in it is often exaggerated, mis-attributed, mis-used or even made up. Anyone who differs from the orthodoxy on it is immediately pilloried as evil and destructive, regardless of the reasonableness of, and evidence behind, their claims.
Global Warming has become an area where all dissent is quashed without trial, and I do not see why people do not seem to mind that, yet pillory it everywhere else. There ARE two sides to this one; people seem not to want to see the counter-argument.
It is not as if it is not possible for it to happen- the basic theory is solid. Its practical possiblity, however, has been hyped up beyond reason.
climate is not the only threat, humans themselves are bigger threats, the world's fossi fuel reserves are finishing, forsest are beeing used so much that 97% will probably be dead at the turn of the century, world population is increasing at an astounding rate, the food we produce now is not enough to feed the world and in the future this problem will only get worse, morality is ending, people are becoming more corrupt by the second, there is no place in people's hearts for people that are 'different'
, relegious extremism is becoming higher{in all regions and relegions}, and by far the most dangerous thing is that we have bastards running the nations of the world which have enough power to destroy the world and lets not forget the amount of weapons of mass destrction we have {enough to destroy the whole earth MANY times over with ease}, people are suffering in conflicts and wars and all the people who live in wealthy sates turn a blind eye to them and their government's actions because of ignorance and propaganda, the world will soon reach it's breaking point.