Super Pathway Discovered In Southern Ocean 167
WaltonNews writes in to let us know that a major underwater current called the Tasman Outflow has been discovered by Australian scientists. It helps to regulate the Earth's climate by providing water flow between three oceans in the southern hemisphere. Relatedly, a senior climate scientist has called for the establishment of a Southern Hemisphere network of deep ocean moorings, to complement the network already established in the North Atlantic. The intent is to detect any change in ocean circulation that may adversely influence global climate.
Bad bad reporting (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I call bullshit! (Score:2, Insightful)
Mod me down baby, waste away those mod points...
Re:I call bullshit! (Score:5, Insightful)
seems like you're better off keeping a moderately efficient car for as long as you can (maybe 10 years?) instead of dumping it before its time is up to get a hybrid. not just environmentally but financially. not having to make $300/mo payments seems like you could afford a little extra gasoline.
CFL are great, but without a wide spread recycling program it is just going to cause poison to be released into the environment. Causing severe problems to sensitive species, including ourselves. If Al Gore is so smart why did he not propose a federal mandatory disposal/recycling program for CFLs and hybrid's lead batteries?
Re:Adverse changes? (Score:1, Insightful)
Huh? Concerning the Atlantic season, there's been five named storms so far, one reaching hurricane status (Dean, currently category 3, expected to increase as it moves into the Gulf).
And who said anything about a "record season?" The NHC is expecting an above normal one [noaa.gov], but nobody said anything about "record."
You don't get it. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I call bullshit! (Score:3, Insightful)
mod styles (Score:2, Insightful)
If it were me, I'd be torn between modding down as "troll" and up as "funny". But then I have a sick sense of humor.
Re:Energy source (Score:3, Insightful)
Don't for a second dismiss out of hand the effect we might have on the environment simply because "it's so big compared to what WE could do." That's how we've gotten in trouble already, and you want to be so stupid as to continue down that path? If you want to ensure your untimely demise, by all means, get a gun and pop one into your cranium. However, until we know for certain what the ramifications of such a system would be, we should consider it potentially dangerous.
Frankly, it scares me to death when people start talking about tapping into the few things like ocean currents that keep the heat circulating from hot places to cold places. Shut those down and the hot places are going to get incredibly hot and the cold places are going to be terribly frigid. Some all-fired nasty storms happen when you have colliding air masses with huge variations in temperature.
Re:I call bullshit! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:IT'S SETTLED SCIENCE (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:IT'S SETTLED SCIENCE (Score:2, Insightful)
It's all too easy to just ignore the possibility that we might be screwing up the planet so we can happily go on and do whatever the hell we want.
Sure, it being a hot day today might have absolutelty nothing to do with what we have done to the planet over the last 100 years in particular, or it might. I'm not that cluely with the natural sciences, but it makes sense that curning out CO2 which was previously locked away in fossil fuels would increase the atmospheric concentration of CO2 and that in turn could have other effects, like warming up the planet.
Wny can't we just think rationally about issues like this instead of spewing out crap like the parent post?
I hope that was meant to be a parody (Score:3, Insightful)