Global warming

Interesting.

Altohough I always suggest getting as close to the source as possible:  http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/methane-tt1029.html

 

Edited by Bruce Banner - 31 October 2008 at 5:55pm

I should send that to my evolutionary biology prof.  He manages to bring politics into biology every chance he gets, and global warming has obviously been one of his big ones.

It gets a little out of hand sometimes

"...These trees have a rough bark because of the harsh climate, but not as rough as McCain's face.  That guy is a dinosaur, and an ugly one at that.  But ya, these trees have special bark..."

Does this mean Al Gore gets his Nobel prize taken away?

HA! how you like them apples Hippies... Go back to woodstock now. ;)

I don't know about you guys, but I can't wait for another Ice Age.

I love sloth's.

Bruce Banner wrote: Interesting. Altohough I always suggest getting as close to the source as possible:  http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/methane-tt1029.html

ahh, thank you, that is indeed a better article on the subject.

on global warming i've always taken the opinion that we're jumping to conclusions we dont neccessarily have the data to support.

for instance, charting green-house gasses and average temperature over a span of thousands of years makes a nice chart - but when your going back that far with the limited understanding of whats happened that we have, there are far to many variables to just come out and say "this is fact"

and speaking of Gore - his chart from the "inconvinient truth" cracked me up hardcore. if the correlation between greenhouse gasses and temperature was as closely tied as he claimed, AND his chart on greenhouse gasses was correct, AND there werent other factors in the worlds climate to balance things out - we would all be pretty crispy by now.

the other thing that always amused me is how Gore was such a great envirnmentalist - well, as long as he didnt actually have to change his lifestyle at all. with his home using 14 times the amount of energy that the average american home does.

Edited by adrenalinejunky - 01 November 2008 at 9:14am

Crazy stuff.

Reb Cpl wrote: Does this mean Al Gore gets his Nobel prize taken away?

I think Al Gore should just be taken away...

rednekk98 wrote: Without actually reading the article I'm going to jump to a baseless conclusion. This is all that frozen methane on the ocean floor being released when ocean temps rise. It's been suggested that we could someday mine that ice with trapped methane for fuel, but when they talk about a "tipping point", they mean that that crap will be released, the ice caps will melt and stop acting like a "mirror" and previously frozen plant and animal matter will begin to decompose, adding even more methane. For more Gore-bashing: Didn't his family own a lot of stock in Occidental Petroleum Co? That was the company that wanted to drill in the rain forests and a local tribe was threatening mass-suicide if it wasn't stopped. It was eventually stopped, because they couldn't find any oil. I think Occidental also owned the mineral rights to his family farm shown in his stupid movie.

appearently it was his fathers stock and sold at gores request after his death.

Edited by adrenalinejunky - 02 November 2008 at 8:55am

cows too - or rather they emmit large quantities of methane.

http://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/methane-cow.htm

Edited by adrenalinejunky - 02 November 2008 at 9:28am