NationStates Jolt Archive

1. Iran wants to blow up the world with nuclear weapons and spread terrorism.
2. We know about global climate change being an indisputable fact.
3. An asteroid may hit the earth in 2036.
4. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17736578/
the ocean currents off of antartica are now slowing down.

"But the freshening of Antarctic deep water was a sign that the "overturning circulation" system in the world's oceans might be slowing down, Rintoul said, and similar trends are occurring in the North Atlantic

But researchers fear increased melting of the Greenland ice sheet risks disrupting the conveyor. If it stops, temperatures in northern Europe would plunge.

Australian scientists warned last month that waters surrounding Antarctica were also becoming more acidic as they absorbed more carbon dioxide produced by nations burning fossil fuels.

Acidification of the ocean is affecting the ability of plankton — microscopic marine plants, animals and bacteria — to absorb carbon dioxide, reducing the ocean's ability to sink greenhouse gases to the bottom of the sea.

Rintoul said that global warming was also changing wind patterns in the Antarctic region, drawing them south away from the Australian mainland and causing declining rainfall in western and possibly eastern coastal areas.

This was contributing to drought in Australia, one of the world's top agricultural producers, he said."

I'm sure climate change accounts for most of the world's other droughts as well.

It's the end of the world as you know it.

Should we start looting now?

Should we start looting now?

Start? :confused:

*Hides loot*

1. Iran wants to blow up the world with nuclear weapons and spread terrorism.
2. We know about global climate change being an indisputable fact.
3. An asteroid may hit the earth in 2036.
4. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17736578/
the ocean currents off of antartica are now slowing down.

"But the freshening of Antarctic deep water was a sign that the "overturning circulation" system in the world's oceans might be slowing down, Rintoul said, and similar trends are occurring in the North Atlantic

But researchers fear increased melting of the Greenland ice sheet risks disrupting the conveyor. If it stops, temperatures in northern Europe would plunge.

Australian scientists warned last month that waters surrounding Antarctica were also becoming more acidic as they absorbed more carbon dioxide produced by nations burning fossil fuels.

Acidification of the ocean is affecting the ability of plankton — microscopic marine plants, animals and bacteria — to absorb carbon dioxide, reducing the ocean's ability to sink greenhouse gases to the bottom of the sea.

Rintoul said that global warming was also changing wind patterns in the Antarctic region, drawing them south away from the Australian mainland and causing declining rainfall in western and possibly eastern coastal areas.

This was contributing to drought in Australia, one of the world's top agricultural producers, he said."

I'm sure climate change accounts for most of the world's other droughts as well.

It's the end of the world as you know it.

1. Prove it.
2. Well, whether or not you were being sarcastic, I'll give you this one, mainly because I'm a global warming zealot myself.
3. Utter rubbish. I assume you're speaking of that asteroid (whose name I cannot remember at the moment) which sparked a competition on methods of 'tagging' it?
The chance of it hitting Earth is so ridiculously tiny that it's virtually non-existent.
4. This is interesting indeed...

No; most of the world's drought are caused by a combination of climate change and human stupidity when it comes to utilising land.

The end of the world as we know it? Hardly.
A small preview of the terrors of the future should we continue our idiotic ways? Yes.

Ilaer

It's the end of the world as you know it.
And I feel... pretty crappy. :(

One of my teachers in little-child school was called Rintoul. He was really tall, and he drove a mini. It satisfied my little-child sense of humour.

If everyone who thought the world was going to end would off themselves right now, the chances are significantly less likely of it actually ending.

1. Prove it.
2. Well, whether or not you were being sarcastic, I'll give you this one, mainly because I'm a global warming zealot myself.
3. Utter rubbish. I assume you're speaking of that asteroid (whose name I cannot remember at the moment) which sparked a competition on methods of 'tagging' it?
The chance of it hitting Earth is so ridiculously tiny that it's virtually non-existent.
4. This is interesting indeed...

No; most of the world's drought are caused by a combination of climate change and human stupidity when it comes to utilising land.

The end of the world as we know it? Hardly.
A small preview of the terrors of the future should we continue our idiotic ways? Yes.

Ilaer

1. Read the news about Iran.
3. Then you are saying that most of the world's scientists and NASA are wrong.

If everyone who thought the world was going to end would off themselves right now, the chances are significantly less likely of it actually ending.

Oh I'm pretty sure the world will end. Just not for another billion years. Give or take a few.

2036? That's nearly 30 years away...if we can't solve it in that time, it shows our governments are utterly incapable of protecting millions, even tens of millions of their citizens from preventable natural disasters, and that's pretty damn sad.

Global warming would suck if we're not careful, and Iran's just another decaying nation trying to get another shot in the spotlight. So, we've just got to be careful, and if we could survive 50 years of the Cold War without nuking ourselves to hell, I'm quite confident we can do the same now.

TEOTWAWKI? Sure. It happens every day.

i find it ironic that the OP is UnitedStatesOfAmerica- when the US is among the least willing to adopt policies that would combat global warming.

but that's just me.

i find it ironic that the OP is UnitedStatesOfAmerica- when the US is among the least willing to adopt policies that would combat global warming.

but that's just me.

Maybe because we're doing fine on our own and don't need to exert more government control over the masses.

The world will end someday, but as of right now there are still plenty of things we can do to help keep it from happening. As for Iran though, I'm personally of the opinion that all those countries like Iran, North Korea, and (allegedly) Iraq that the U.S. has had a beef with for years are all trying to get their hands on WMDs so that America will be too scared of retaliation to ever invade them. They're just trying to get a nuclear security blanket.

3. Then you are saying that most of the world's scientists and NASA are wrong.

Most of the world's scientists and NASA say that the asteroid in question (99942 Apophis) has about a 1 in 45,000 chance of impact on Earth. I'll take those odds. (Though the risks of an asteroid impact are quite real, and the government ought to be putting more than the current token amount of funding towards tracking the damn things)

It's the end of the world as you know it.

And I feel... pretty crappy. :(


Really? I feel fine . . .

1. Iran wants to blow up the world with nuclear weapons and spread terrorism. .

Bollocks, really.



2. We know about global climate change being an indisputable fact..

Which America has often blocked attempts to halt.


3. An asteroid may hit the earth in 2036. .

If alive, I'll be 66.

Most of the world's scientists and NASA say that the asteroid in question (99942 Apophis) has about a 1 in 45,000 chance of impact on Earth. I'll take those odds. (Though the risks of an asteroid impact are quite real, and the government ought to be putting more than the current token amount of funding towards tracking the damn things)

The 1 in 45,000 figure is the current figure. That will be change in 2013 when the asteroid goes through earth's gravitational keyhole. Then it could either head away from earth or be put on a direct collision course with earth in which case it will definitively hit the earth in 2036 according to the scientists watching the asteroid. So the 1 in 45,000 thing is only good up to 2013.

Bollocks, really.



Which America has often blocked attempts to halt.



If alive, I'll be 66.

The Europeans and the Israelis agree that Iran wants nuclear weapons. It is widey known that Iran is a sponsor and funder of international terrorist groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas, certain branches of al qaeda.

In America, we leave it to the states and individuals to take care of global warming by using the Constitution to bar the federal government from imposing laws the restrict or usurp the rights and freedoms of the people.
I for one think the states are doing a better job than the fed ever could.

I might be dead for all I know. But if it happens I'm sure the world will be different afterward. Perhaps better.

The Europeans and the Israelis agree that Iran wants nuclear weapons.

...therefore Iran wants to blow up the world?

Apply this self-same logic to Israel, USA, UK, Russia, China, India and Pakistan.

Do they all also want to blow up the world?

i find it ironic that the OP is UnitedStatesOfAmerica- when the US is among the least willing to adopt policies that would combat global warming.

but that's just me.

In the first-world anyway, Many third-world nations and countries that have too much to lose(China and Russia) make us look like radicals for even admitting it's an issue.

Which America has often blocked attempts to halt.


Many of the individual states have taken their own direction toward this end. Just because the federal government hasn't done much doesn't mean nothing is being done. Far more goes on at the state level in the US than the Federal Level. I suspect Europe is not this way?

If you mean "Kyoto" the US has already pointed out the area of its objections is which countries are responsible for goals, and which countries aren't.