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    Rising temperatures

    This is mainly a thread "to let you know", but you may discuss too

    Apparently withing a century, the earths temperature will rise by 11C. Now that's quite a lot, but Britains temperaure will rise by a massive 20C!!!!!! This is if our pollution levels don't fall. I really don't see why Mr Bush can agree to cut pollution levels. Yes it might not be economical to do so, but you'd have thought that the rishest nation in the world would be able to agree. Since they're spending millions on a war, space research and more.

    Some of you (especially with our weather now) might think WOW - and extra 20C!!! But think about it. In the summer, it CAN reach 30C. Add and extra 20 and that's 50C, which is just unlivable.

    This info can probbaly be found on the BBC site, but I got it from the front page of the metro .

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    I cant see how anyone can say weather isnt changing but i guess they they quibble
    about the reasons.

    When i was young it would snow every year and a lot... its getting less and less common
    each year. If it does get that hot it will likely get very humid and be more like japan.
    The way our houses are designed mean that they will mold up like fungus on a wet turd.

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    If that happens doesn't the gulf stream stop and we get a colder climate?

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    Well before we got to 11C rise (I've heard numbers more like 2 or 3C BTW) we're likely to see shifts in deep ocean currents such as the gulf stream. If the gulf stream changes, Britain's climate will also change. With much cooler water around us it will be much cooler, especially at night.

    The thing is, no one actually knows what will happen. There's plenty of evidence to suggest we might be about to plunge into an ice age with drops of up to 6C globally. Levels of greenhouse gasses are not the only factor in global warming, the global climate is a VERY complex system, small changes can have huge knock on effects in ways we don't understand.

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    The thing is, no one actually knows what will happen.
    This is the key statement, along with
    the global climate is a VERY complex system, small changes can have huge knock on effects in ways we don't understand.
    So we're doing SOMETHING, but we're still not exactly sure what, and we're definately not sure what will happen because of it. But we do know it might have happened anyway, and that we're doing faster and faster nowdays.

    All good then!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ajbrun
    I really don't see why Mr Bush can agree to cut pollution levels.
    Two words, Power and MONEY. Thats all most people with great power care about is MONEY.



    I personally think the earth is warming up naturally. But i also think that we have accelerated this warming exponentially in the last 100 years. The sooner we get fusion power plants and electric/gas powered vehicles the better. Locking illegal loggers up would help a bit aswell.
    Last edited by Dorza; 29-01-2005 at 01:40 AM.

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    I'd say the sooner green activists stop moaning about nuclear power plants, when clearly they are infinately better than the alternative, we will start to get somewhere. We are supposedly more at risk from mobiles than nuclear power plants anyway and a nuclear accident, although a lot less likely to happen these days, is still not as bad as the cataclismic predictions from burning fossil fuels.

    And you know it has to happen some day anyway, but controlled fusion would be helpfull. An accident with that would be quite big though i think.

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    Maybe they should hurry up and decide where they should build that fusion reactor
    thing.

    Also we shouldnt be heading for an ice age now we are at a point in time (apparently)
    where it is supposed to be getting hotter. We are coming towards the top of the ice age
    cycle. I have heard that this excuse is often used by the american government.

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