Humans are Causing Global Warming

Big_Al_B writes "A Times Online article discusses a new study comparing 7 million real world datapoints with several computer models of global warming. Each model had a possible cause associated with it." From the article: "It found that natural variation in the Earth's climate, or changes in solar activity or volcanic eruptions, which have been suggested as alternative explanations for rising temperatures, could not explain the data collected in the real world. "

Wow

[RonUSMC]

and I thought it was the crab people that was the cause of it all.

Humans cause...

[chia_monkey]

Humans cause global warming? Get out! Next they'll say "humans cause polution" and other cockamany "problems".

Wha?!?

[SmokeHalo]

No way!!! And all this time I was blaming the sun...

Sorry Sol.

Re:Flame Away!

[savagedome]

Both sides are missing the point that George Carlin bought up and I have mentioned it previously. The Earth is warming itself up because it needs to get rid of us. We were here to deliver plastic and that need is satisfied already.

"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 philosophical question...why are we here? plastic, assholes"

Re:What about farting Cattle

[Tackhead]

> Did the include the millions of farting cattle in this model? and what about Guinness drinkers? Are they covered?

Hey, just because it's Friday and some of us started drinking early doesn't mean we're responsible for global warming. Leave my cow orkers out of it!

A an interesting reversal...

[Ingolfke]

Here's a hypothesis.

1. Global warming will result in colder temperatures in some currently heavily populated regions.
2. People tend to stay inside when it is colder.
3. Staying inside increases the likely hood of procreation.

Therefore, global warming will cause humans.

Out of curiosity....

[Anonymous Coward]

at what point when reading a post by a person with "Troll" in their name does one decide, "I better take them seriously. Just in case."?

Re:Not millions, but here is 400,000 years worth

[dcocos]

b/c as Creationists belive the earth is only about 6,000 years old so about 394,000 of it is irrelavant.

Re:Wow

[Anonymous Coward]

Personally, I still blame microsoft

And...

[Anonymous Coward]

The massive underground coal fires they start through their careless, happless, and downright deadly mining practices wouldn't count against them even if they weren't exempt.

crontab on www.slashdot.org

[T3kno]

Zonk@www # crontab -l
0 9 * * * /usr/bin/post --subject "Humans are Causing Global Warming"
15 9 * * * /usr/bin/post --subject "Windows more secure than Linux story"
30 9 * * * /usr/bin/post --subject "YRO story about MPAA/RIAA"
Zonk@www #

Re:Indeed...

[Doesn't_Comment_Code]

You are correct. There is a disturbing notion that scientists are infallible and their conclusions unquestionable. This is clearly not the case as scientists often disagree with each other!

I would consider myself a scientist, or at least a strong thinker with a lot of scientific knowledge, and I am very uncomfortable with how far we are willing to extrapolate our knowledge. By the time you make a fifth degree indirect measurement and mix in a handful of assumptions (reasonable though they might be) you just can't be too sure of your conclusion. Yet many people seem very comfortable doing this on a regular basis and standing VERY firmly behind their findings. I question the scientific depth of those people.

Re:Indeed...

[tomcode]

Yeah, and that wacky "theory" that CO2 is a heat insulator? That can be countered with a simple, "No it isn't."

Re:Flame Away!

[jocknerd]

Probably a bit more intelligent than those that watch Fox News.

that Nunavat beachfront property ...

[peter303]

...is looking more and more attractive.
And that salesman thought he was ripping me off.

(Nunavat is Canada's newest province on the Arctic Ocean.)

Re:Indeed...

[Concerned Onlooker]

"please tell me the tempreature, pressure, humidity and dew point when ogg went out and killed his first sabertooth tiger."

Bonus points if you can tell when vorbis ripped his first cd.

Re:Flame Away!

[Dolly_Llama]

The cows fart and burp a lot - creating greenhouse gasses. Then we get global warming.

Well I fart and burp alot too. Certainly they can't be thinking about getting rid of..skjd+++NO CARRIER

Re:Flame Away!

[NardofDoom]

Mr. Carlin, in his infinite wisdom, is anthropomorphizing an inanimate object. They hate that.

When I want to hear something funny, I'll listen to George Carlin. When I want to hear fundamental data about our climate, I'll listen to climatologists.

Re:A an interesting reversal...

[MyIS]

3. Staying inside increases the likely hood of procreation.

I stay inside all the time in my basement, and can tell that this is pure conjecture.

Re:Flame Away!

[NoData]

Your rabidly moderate position is radically neutral and fanatically level-headed! It's that kind of zealous commitment to dispassionate consideration that will cause us to wildly err on the side of fervent caution! You sir, are an extremist in your moderation!

How dare you, sir! How dare you.

MARS!

[adolfojp]

Thats how men died in mars... and the methane explains it! Refried beans, the destroyer of worlds!

Cheers,
Adolfo