Humanity Responsible For Current Climate Change 775
tehanu writes "Scientists working with Antarctic ice have found that the level of greenhouse gases is at the highest level in over half a million years. Carbon dioxide is 27% higher now than any other time over the last 650 000 years. Methane, an even stronger greenhouse gas is 130% higher. The period of time studied covers eight full glacial cycles including a time when the earth's position relative to the sun is the same as it is today. Other scientists have found that the annual rate at which the sea has risen since the industrial revolution is twice that of over the last 5000 years. It is predicted that by 2100 the sea level will be 40cm higher. These results provide strong evidence that human activity since the industrial revolution, rather than just natural processes, has strongly altered the world's climate. As one of the scientists involved in the research put it: 'The levels of primary greenhouse gases such as methane, carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide are up dramatically since the Industrial Revolution, at a speed and magnitude that the Earth has not seen in hundreds of thousands of years.'"
No! God did it! (Score:5, Funny)
Any rise in temperature must be part of the Grand Design.
Don't sweat it! (e.g. shit happens.)
Nothing to see here (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Solar Activiity is at its highest levels since (Score:3, Funny)
Bad news? (Score:3, Funny)
Awesome. That's 40 cm less I have to drive to get to the beach.
Up by Fargo, Global Warming can't come too soon! (Score:3, Funny)
(In other news, sell any property you own near sea level.)
Bigger picture (Score:5, Funny)
Carbon dioxide is 27% higher now than any other time over the last 650 000 years.
But the Earth is 4.5 billion years old.
Maybe the C02 level rises every million years or so, each time life evolves into things that make internal combustion engines. Then it falls for a while after each thermonuclear war.
A graph [v2.nl] of the last 3 million years?
Re:Good -- treat this as investment advice (Score:2, Funny)
1. Buy land a few feet above sea level
2. Steady the course, environomentally
3. Sell ocean front real-estate in 30 years
4. PROFIT!
Re:No! God did it! (Score:3, Funny)
The Christian Right's response... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Up by Fargo, Global Warming can't come too soon (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Links (Score:3, Funny)
Did I get that right?
Irony (Score:5, Funny)
What I find ironic is how often people who don't trust the fossil fuel industry, and claim not to believe anything they say, etc. have been taken in by the anti-nuclear FUD spread by the very people they claim to distrust.
It's like some bad comedy routine.
Joe Public: I don't trust you.
Coal and Oil guy: I can understand that.
Joe Public: Nothing you can say will make me trust you.
Coal and Oil guy: I know just how you feel.
Joe Public: You do?
Coal and Oil guy: Sure. See that guy standing over there? The one with the pocket protector?
Joe Public: What, Nuclear Guy? Sure, I see him.
Coal and Oil guy: I don't trust him at all.
Joe Public: Why not?
Coal and Oil guy: He wants to kill all our babies and make giant insects and stuff.
Joe Public: Really?
Coal and Oil guy: Really. And he wants to make stuff that will kill people a bazillion years from now if they so much as think about it. That's why I don't trust him.
Joe Public: Wow. Thanks for the warning. But this isn't going to make me trust you any more than I did before.
Coal and Oil guy: I can understand that. Just so long as you don't trust him either.
Joe Public: Or don't worry about that. That guy is scary!
--MarkusQ
SpaceBalls (Score:3, Funny)
2. Start putting Air into neat little cans, with 2 nostril holes
3. Call your new product 'Perri-Air'
4. !?!
5. PROFIT!!
We need more...PIRATES!! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It doesn't matter how much evidence is found. (Score:3, Funny)
After you, pal.
Re:I Dont Care Anymore (Score:3, Funny)
I, for one, do NOT welcome our new blattarian overlords.
That said, if they end up being half as dumb as humans, they'll probably mass-produce Raid for military purposes.