New Climate Change Warning

sebFlyte writes "A new grid computing climate research project, climateprediction.net, has come up with its first major results, and they're really not good news for the planet according to the BBC. The simulations suggest that over the next hundred years we could see average rises of average temperatures of up to 11K, more than twice what was previously thought."

Further Evidence in the Linux/Hygiene Conspiracy

[repruhsent]

I read here a while back that Wal Mart is selling PCs with Linux preloaded on them.

Now, think about your local Wal Mart. Everyone's there buying stuff at dirt cheap prices because they can't afford to do so anywhere else. What is one of the things that they doubtlessly buy? Soap, of course. What do you use soap in? Taking showers.

Does this make sense to you? Of course it does - because people who go to Wal Mart don't take showers, they're perfect candidates for using Linux - since it's an operating system made by people who don't take showers for people who don't take showers.

It's because....

[gardyloo]

This thing was run on so many PCs. They obviously took the simulation itself into account -- good job!

Hmm..

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh well. As long as it's the The Century After The Next, and not the day after tomorrow... not my problem.

If I have any kids, I'll be sure to painfully torture them myself long before climate becomes an issue.

It's about time!

[sdo1]

All this snow in the northeast is really starting to piss me off.

-S

Re:...not good news for the planet...

[savagedome]

Planet will be fine. This is just the planet's way to get rid of us. We were here to create plastic and that need is over.

In the words of George Carlin:

If plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn't share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn't know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, 'Why are we here?' Plastic...asshole.

Re:Uh, what?

[Anonymous Coward]

Incompetency on Slashdot. Sigh

what - you're surprised?

Obligatory Futurama reference

[Dachannien]

Lrrr: We will raise your planet's temperature by one million degrees a day... for five days.

I'm doing my part...

[Pandion]

I make sure to never eat my vegetables!

Re:BS, FP

[crashfrog]

I am yet to be shown how global warming is going to kill all 7 billion people on the planet, or even a substantial portion of them.

Lemme ask you something. Did you ever eat? Or know someone who has?

Re:It's because....

[Acts of Attrition]

This is no laughing matter.
The avg temp is going to go up 11000 degrees!
We're doomed!

Its a good thing...

[nwbvt]

...that we don't live in a computer simulation. Otherwise we would have destroyed our planet a dozen times already.

Re:You have to prioritize

[DAldredge]

No, he won't. Reagan was a conservative.

Only 11K? What kind of contestants are these?

[SEWilco]

rises of average temperatures of up to 11K

Shucks, Team Slashdot is still running and their score is up to 55K! Those others are way behind!

I should expect this here

[RJNFC]

I always hear the same thing on Slashdot: "We need more mirrors!"

The real deal

[null etc.]

I think it's important to remember that what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. I think the planet abides by the same philosophy. So after a few centuries of global warming, it should be indestructible.

If we should need to solve the issue of global warming, it should be fairly easy:

1. Set up solar reflection panels to direct concentrated rays of sun towards the ice caps, so that not only will the ice melt, it will evaporate as well.
2. Set up a huge thermal vent so that evaporated water can waft up to space and out of our orbit.
3. The planet will naturally start to spin faster as a result of reduced mass.
4. A planet that spins faster will expose any given portion of the planet to the sun for shorter increments, allowing the sun less time to "heat up" the atmosphere.
5. Furthermore, the evaporated water will freeze once it reaches space, making a nice little shiny reflector shield to block out some of the sun's radiation.

I honestly don't understand why no one consults me about this problem. Thank gosh I can share my productive fruits with the slashdot population.

Re:And when there is no significant immediate thre

[Gob Blesh It]

According to Google, the natural death rate in the U.S. is 0.121879864 hertz [google.com]. What this means for humanity at large, I couldn't say.

Re:Crichton novel- State of Fear

[Jim_Callahan]

eh, just ignore the political message and Chrighton's books are awesome. I mean, Jurrasic park was something about dangers of cloning blah blah kill science yarr, yet I still enjoyed it because it was a book about dinosaur clones running around eating people. What's not to love?

Re:Lalalalalala I can't hear you lalalalalala

[LarsWestergren]

I thought America was founded by *scientists*, non?

What, the people on the Mayflower where scientists?? ;)

Re:...not good news for the planet...

[ErroneousBee]

Dont anthromorphosize planets, they dont like it.

Re:And when there is no significant immediate thre

[CmdrGravy]

Not true WMD definitely exist, I think we are all beginning to realise now that not only did Saddam obviously ship all his WMD's to Iran but that Iran is also a much greater support of terrorism and evil than we previously suspected, after all what else would it buy the WMD's for if it didn't plan on using them it's self or selling them on to Al Quaeda.

Good.. it's f*#king freezing here

[mcdade]

It's -1F here in Detroit area today, we have had lots of snow and lots of super cold days.. i don't think there is a global warming, it's just that the cold currents change over time... Bring on the heat!!

also it will help with the heating bills!

-b

11 Thousand Degrees!

[MadMorf]

The simulations suggest that over the next hundred years we could see average rises of average temperatures of up to 11K, more than twice what was previously thought.

Ok, who else besides me read that as 11 Thousand Degrees, instead of the intended 11 Degrees Kelvin?

Come on, admit it!

The Sky Is Falling!!!!

[Androclese]

They can't even predict what the weather will be like this weekend.

How are we expected to believe then with forcast that far out?

Re:You have to prioritize

[Anonymous Coward]

> Afghanistan was a total sucess. They have freedom and democrocy now.

Speaking as a middle-class recreational heroin user (no, really... it's very relaxing and helps keep my weight down. A bit expensive but $40 a day isn't that bad. Oh yeah and I've been in gainful employment doing network security for the last four years.) - I welcome Afghnistan's new democratically elected overloards. Opium production is now booming, back up to pre-Taliban levels (you knew they banned it and actually enforced that ban, right?), so hopefully street prices over here will continue dropping (whilst quality continues to improve.) Can't stand that china white garbage, gimme brown sugar any day...