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Mild Winter
Topic Started: Feb 5 2012, 05:15 AM (976 Views)
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You're complaining about beach weather? Yeah Australians are tough, right until it the temperature is in the teens.
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Beach weather? You poor son of a bitch.
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You spoilt softy.

I hope it gets back into heat-stroke temperatures soon so you don't get chilly.
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Feb 6 2012, 01:06 AM
Well in the southern hemisphere the opposite is happening, it's fucking winter weather down here. It's 20 c and overcast, normally at this time of year we should be in 30-40 plus weather with pure blue sky. The entire summer has been really mild with a few hot days
Whiny beeyatch.

It'll be winter in Australia when pigs fly. Which is never.
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Hey, our winters may be pissweak. but your summers are just as pitiful.
I was in london for a month, I dont remember the sun ever being actually visible,let alone clear skies (has anyone in the UK ever seen a clear sky?). it was July.
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Puhlease, girfren.

Over heah ah summahs r summin fierce!
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Feb 5 2012, 12:25 PM
It's global warming, everyone! Run for your lives!!!
I hate alarmist climate change bull. I don't necessarily discount global climate change or warming or whatever the hell it's called now, but I don't really buy into it either. I don't think we have anywhere close to enough data on something as vast and ancient as the atmosphere to go making any kind of claim, let alone the radical "we'll destroy Earth!" one. Nuclear power plants were supposed to do the same thing, but France uses a lot of them and they don't seem to have much trouble.
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I agree. The alarmist stuff is bull, but I'm not very skeptical of the phenomenon itself- the chemistry of it is pretty clear, so it isn't very difficult to believe that human activities are having an effect on the global climate. The severity of that effect and how it correlates to human activities can be righly regarded as a matter of contention, as our knowledge changes and improves.

But people just spin it into this alarmist nonsense. Some do it as an advertising thing, some do it as a political platform, and I think some do it because they just plain hate humans.

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Nuclear power plants were supposed to do the same thing, but France uses a lot of them and they don't seem to have much trouble.


The problems that can occur with nuclear power are far more subtle though. It's more an issue of improper safety practices, practical concerns, low-level radiation leaks, etc.
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We know enough. CO2 is an insulator, we are releasing a lot of CO2 into the atmosphere, and the planet is getting warmer.

At the end of the day, those are the facts and politicians arguing will either lead to nothing being done, or an uncoordinated, half-arsed response.
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We also know that the vast majority of the land and water on our planet is covered in lifeforms constantly turning that CO2 back into O2. Yet nobody seems to care, because as we all know CO2 levels only go up not down. Plants don't want to breathe car exhaust apparently.
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

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Plants breathe Oxygen, like us. They eat CO2.

Now notice that CO is in car exhaust. We're choking the plants.
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Dogs eat meat, but if you pile up more carcasses than one can eat they are going to accumulate.

People are measuring the composition of the atmosphere? It might not be as sexy as geology but people do check that.
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Let's not forget that we're putting carbon back into the cycle that was locked away for a rather long time as well as harvesting the plants that would normally take full advantage of this sudden increase of carbon supply.
I don't know the actual rate of harvest but I imagine it it at a great enough scale that the population is not able to fully harness the larger supply.
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