Evaporation tomorrow

Next your going to be telling me the Ice Age was caused by lack of industrialization.

if things keep on going like they are going, with globalization and constant increases in carbon emissions, I wont live to see 50.

Well the whole Hurricane thing has been debunked considering we've only had 4 this year. And, we could also say that an average global temperature is sort of a fantasy because there are so many variables in the cause of the temperature that an average would have to be taken over hundreds of years. So, to say that we are causing global warming would still be considered a theory because we don't have nearly enough information to prove this. The earth is Millions of years old, to base an argument off the last 200 years is imposable. Global waring does exists, is it caused by us most likely not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age

Not tomorrow. Maybe not the day after tomorrow. But what about the day after the day after tomorrow?

You agree that there's a problem, but you claim (assumptions here) a) it doesn't need to be dealt with, and b) it isn't your problem because it won't happen tomorrow. Lame. Very lame.

Do nothing and tomorrow comes sooner than you think.

I do agree there is a problem, but it's blown WAY out of proportion.

Fool, no one has said the world is going to blow up. This little kid said he'd jump on board when Antarctica evaporates... it would be too late then! Sea levels would rise and it would affect me directly because I live in NYC. This little boy must in land locked state.

The point is not that I think it doesn't exists. It is blown WAY out of proportion. The media is trying to connect everything with "man-made" global warming.

1. Fires are not caused by the temperature getting a little bit warmer. Droughts are not new either.
2. Hurricanes, we've had 4 this year, so don't tell me it's that either.
3. The earth by itself goes through phases. You can't tell the Ice Age was caused by the lack of industrialization.

Do I think it's a myth, no.
Do I think It would be nice to not have to worry about it, yes.

He's just saying what Michael Crichton's been pointing out. It takes guts for a kid to stand in a point of view. Give the kid a break? (check Crichton's research for more kid, next time)

I'd take this person a little more seriously if he didn't look like he was 11. Save the rhetoric your dad tells you at the dinner table for your friends on the playground. Secondly, it's not just Al Gore claiming these things. It's real live scientists like the biology teacher you'll have once you get to high school. Lastly, the Earth isn't a few million years old. Evidence exists proving that its 4 and a half BILLION years old. Once again facts not rhetoric are needed to successfully argue. Do a little research, read a few books, or if reading is too much for you go rent The 11th Hour and An Inconvenient Truth and realize how real this is.

The average has increased over the century. In a way that it shouldn't. most change happens on a geologic scale and the incremental increases or decreases are felt over lifetimes not over years. The fact that you can see the the changes occuring is the indicator of the problem.

There were far more than three "Hurricanes" this year and the Hurricanes Occuring now in Brazil a region that was thought unable to produce storms has to fear them is another big indicator.

Drought, is exacerbated by global warming and as the science purports the increased moisture in the air causes harder precipation levels when storms do occur. Global Warming doens't cause any new weather phenomenon but its impact is felt in the changes to the normal paterns that the weather follows.

I think you need to sit back in your loveSac comforter and honestly keep reading your comics (were only worlds would blow up in) and leave these disscusions up to the adults. I never heard a most childish argument on global warming. World Blowing UP!!!.. . . . LOL KID YOUR TOO FUNNY.

Its happening right now and in about ten years the temperatures will be so high that nearly all the forests in the world will release their carbon dioxide and Antarctica will release a large amount of carbon dioxide as well. And who even got the idea into your head that people think Global Warming is going to destory the Earth in a week!!

dude you are out of your mind. do us a favor and lock your self up in a library for a week and get educated about it!!!!.

Little one, you need to listen more, read more and talk less. Sometimes, the sky IS falling, the cry of "Wolf" is real and there is a monster in the closet, but you needn't be afraid, there are few problems in life you can't get thru with a little help from your friends.

dude read some more books and get enlighten b/c there are other contribution to global warming and yes the world is literally burst to flame IF WE AS HUMAN keep being ignorance about it. ALSO AL GORE IS NOT AN EXTREMIST BECAUSE HE IS JUST TELLING THE TRUTH.

Nobody ever said Antarctica would evaporate tomorrow--it was more like a slow melting that would slowly raise sea levels and in turn flood cities. Cities like New Orleans which lie below sea level and are easily inundated during severe storms like hurricanes. Also, nobody ever said the earth would burst into flames--more like slowly heat up and change weather patterns or melt ice caps and raise sea levels that would in turn inundate low lying cities and coastal areas. Maybe you should read up a little more on the subject. just a thought.

Whytheam, ----- No summer ice cap in the arctic by 2066 is blowing exactly WHAT out of proportion?-----Growing a brain and weaning yourself from listening to Lush Rimbaugh would be a good start. As far as ice ages, even if this climate change is not totally man's fault, why exacerbate it with our own polution? AND all of the prehistoric documentation doesn't have any parallel that nears an Earth with 6 BILLION people adding to the equation. The guy who was trying to tell us Scotland had vinyards in Medeival times forgot the fact that we now have close to 6 Billion people to exacerbate the problem and plenty of machinery to clearcut forests and do other environmental damage---May George Bush bless you and keep and cause his face to shine upon you and give you peace--- amen and amen and shondala, hondala, rhondala, fondala----
The Reverend Ivan Norris "Ino" Fulwell

Don't confuse changes in the weather with global climate change. Localized phenomenon, even trends over decades in one area, are not indicative of the problem we face. Those who challenge the claim of a climate problem use data over millennium to accurately observe that cyclic extremes in global climate are natural.

What is crucial to understand in this debate, that the composition of the atmosphere and ocean is trending in ways unique from that seen at any other time in history. Ice cores from miles deep in the Arctic/Antarctic show the composition of the atmosphere through millions of years of Earth's history. Never before has the climate been influenced by the current trends in the chemical composition of our biosphere. That is the risk to us. Key variables in the experiment of life are being grossly altered over a very short period of time. The real fear is that perturbations of these magnitudes will drive climate in non-linear directions.

Yes, the weather changes frequently. Yes, global climates have changed throughout time. Yes, to date, stasis has always maintained a climate balance that avoids extremes which would be non-viable to most life forms. However, the dynamic today, when modeled in ever more accurate simulations, is showing a non-linearity that resembles a chaotic system. The existing balance of climactic forces is now seen as being threatened and a new balance around unknown attractors may not sustain existing life forms.

My fear is NOT for our globe. Gaia will survive. However, mammalian life, including Humans, may not. Between today and Human extinction is a new Epoch, which may begin in the span of only a few generations and would consist of a rapidly increasing difficulty in maintaining the lifestyle we now enjoy. The changes may be extreme, sudden, and life threatening to billions of Humans. Would you be fit enough to survive a hurricane hitting Manhattan? How about the roaming hoards of hungry gun toting homeless that would result?

Speaking of "roaming hords of homeless", Has Anybody read the book "The Road"?

As far as I'm concerned all discussion on global warming is a moot point. It really doesn't matter what people "believe" anymore. Global warming is a fact. Man's contribution to it is a fact. That it's getting worse is a fact. That it will change our lives is a fact.

If I may indulge in a poor analogy:
It makes no difference whether you "believe" that the oncoming light in the railroad tunnel is simply the other side of the tunnel. When the train hits you, you're dead, no matter what you "think" or "believe". The only question that remains is, are we smart enough to step off the tracks?

Maybe Antarctica hasn't evaporated, but sections larger than Rhode Island have broken off. And what about the polar ice shelf up North? Every summer more and more of what used to be a permanent ice sheet disappears. Large portions of the Northern Alaska coastline which used to be held together by permafrost ("perma", as in "permanent") are now eroding into the ocean because the ground which used to remain frozen year round has begun to thaw out. Meanwhile Georgia is literally evaporating as they experience the worst drought in recorded history - it isn't just illegal to water your lawn or wash your car in most areas, at a recent sporting event in Atlanta Stadium, the fans were not allowed to flush the urinals and toilets after using them. Monitors were posted in the restrooms charged with the duty of flushing toilets and urinals only when absolutely necessary. But hey, nothing to worry about - let's wait until Antarctica evaporates before we do anything.

Tell me, when you drive your car, do you apply the brakes before or after you go over a cliff?

you sold me dr. grade school. good point.

Strawman.
Noone said that we are going to burst into flame.

And why do you talk about Al Gore of all people?
He is not a scientist. Talk about NASA, NOAA, NAS the IPCC. And if you want to argue with them do it in the scientific way: publish your paper in peer-reviewed journals. If you can't do that why should anyone take you seriously on something as complex as climatology?

Your're right, antarctica will not melt tomorrow, and probably wont in my life time, but it does not need to for problems to arise due to global warming. Already there have been floods and in south america crops are not growning normally due to climate change.

Pick up a book.

Have you heard the phrase, "We are not preserving for us, but those to come"? Dont you feel the need to become much less apethetic toward what we have to change now? One day, one year, one decade, or even another century from now the legacy that we leave behind will be tarnished by our greedy misuse of what is the only planet we have. Who cares how long it takes...lets make sure our legacy isnt remembered for being lazy, selfish, and frozed by our inability to respond Our world may not be here to blame us for it.

whytheam,
Antarctica is not going to evaporate. Antarctica is made of ice. Ice doesn't evaporate, it melts, water evaporates.
I agree with you on your view. Global Climate Change is a crisis waiting to happen. If we don't do something dramatic soon to fix the problem, it will be a lot harder to fix the problem later on.
How bad will it be, I don't know. I can't see the future and neither can anyone else.
Right now we seeing the very beginning of Global Climate Change. Let's do something now, so it won't get any worst in the future.