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NASA: Global Warming to blame for recent Heat Waves.

[url=http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/07/30/1205276109.abstract]Duh.[/url] Isn't this like saying fire is the reason my house burned down? Oh well. And they say GLOBAL WARMING not Climate Change. That's important. We can stop beating around the bush and calling it what it is not. Climate Change implies it can go either way. Global Warming says its changing in a distinct way. [url=http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/08/july-was-hottest-month-on-record-for-contiguous-u-s-noaa-says/?hpt=hp_t1]Given that this is the hottest July since we started keeping records on this sort of thing[/url] it gets to be pretty obvious. Now, what can we do about it, if anything at all? Are there ways we can start to prepare for what's coming our way? Maybe try to reverse it with technologies like Carbon Sequestering and Orbital Solar Shields? Maybe start the migration inland as the water level rises? Something? Or are we going to bury our heads in the sand and pretend its a political argument, and say that change, any change, is bad for business.
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  • [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] annoyinginge [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] da mob boss12 I still don't think there is enough data to confirm Global Warming. My head is not in the sand I'm just not convinced. [/quote] Then you're a ****ing idiot. No, that's not [i]ad hominem[/i], it's the logical conclusion I reached after reading your post.[/quote] I admit there is plenty of evidence that there is some correlation between greenhouse gas levels (particularly CO2) and temperature. However, there isn't any that shows that this correlation means CO2 leads temperature. Especially since there are often times in the past where as CO2 was rising, temperatures were falling. This indicates that either CO2 is not something that drives temperature, but rather that temperature drives CO2. Or that some other factor, that we may not yet even know, has a bigger influence on temperature than atmospheric CO2 concentration. I do admit, something is happening. I just don't think we know as much about it as everyone thinks we do.

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