Global Definition and 413 Threads

Poverty is the state for the majority of the world’s people and nations. Why is this? Is it enough to blame poor people for their own predicament? Have they been lazy, made poor decisions, and been solely responsible for their plight? What about their government? Have they pursued policies that...

We face an energy crisis, since gas and oil resources are diminishing this century. Oil and gas production follow a bell-curve, and around the middle of the depletion of a gas or oil field, the production of that field decreases yearly. Apart from coal (for producing electricity) and nuclear...

Based on what I see and read, and in spite of the many attacks on Al Gore's laudable effort to help inform the public, there is a consensus that global climate change is real and caused in part by humans. The forecasts for future emissions cinch the debate. http://www.ipcc.ch/ From a...

Could heat from inside the Earth be causing global warming? If more heat was rising from the ocean floors would we notice - particularly if it was only happening in a few small areas?

After reading several papers and seeing gore's movie on GW I'm still searching for solid scientific causal evidence (versus correlations or circumstancial) that anthropogenic greenhouse gases are the cause of global warming in the post-industrial age. I accept we are in a warm epoch...

Interesting paper: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0509/0509088.pdf On the Role of Global Warming on the Statistics of Record-Breaking Temperatures, S. Redner and Mark R. Petersen, But then again the world is bigger than Phili

Currently where I live, we are experiencing very cold winters (average temperature during the day is about 35 degrees Fahrenheit). Last summer was also a surprise where the average temperature was about 105 degrees Fahrenheit. I know that the latter event might be a cause of Global warming...

Quite a while ago, someone posted a flow-chart that showed how the "global warming lie" is repeatedly supported (one bubble being that scientists need funding for their research) I was wondering if anyone remember/knows of it and could dig it up and post it here for me. I'm not sure whether...

Global warming theory It is being observed that the earth’s atmosphere is warming up and it is speculated that carbon emissions are the cause. Since the atmosphere is getting warmer it will contain more moisture due to additional evaporation and warmer air holds more moisture than cold air...

Is it just me, or those studies show results that are extremely blown out of proportion?

This is the follow-up question. Assuming that there is a warming trend, please give your opinion as to the human contribution to this trend. Once again, I would hope that the opinion is informed and not fanciful or political. Sorry if none of these match your true opinion, but please choose...

Let's suppose that, as many of the posters here believe, there is a good possibility that global warming is not priimarily caused or even signficantly contributed to by human CO2 emissions. Let's suppose that there is a very good possibility also that CO2 concentrations are not signficantly...

The reason why this thread is here instead of the Earth science files, will be clear in the last sentence In the spring of this year I received a discussion-group E-mail with an early draft of this paper: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/0606291103v1.pdf Emphasis mine. As a reaction...

Can this be a "Global Warming" Solution? This has been referred to before, at least once in the article "Would You Buy an American Car?" Still, it would be interesting if we could get some opinions. It's along the lines of the T-Zero, but they make their own components. Here are a few sites...

Ok guys, this is the poll. Is there only a very small minority of educated people that are AGW skeptics? Global warming skeptics? I think most of us here are aquainted with the subject's aire de academia, but, please vote only if you know more than what was served to you on a silver platter...

Edit by Evo:Due to claims of plagiarism, certain posts have been deleted from this thread.

If you have ice cubes in a glass of water and they melt the level of the water goes down. Why are glaciers in the ocean different?

Is "Global Warming" hot? What is your sense of public awareness of and the attitudes towards this subject? It seems to me that in the US we have finally reached critical mass. Since to a large extent TV merely feeds people what they want to watch and what they already believe, and since TV...

[SIZE="4"]A new hypothesis for global warming Introduction The current climate change/global warming debate has become highly political, with some people maintaining that the warming over the last 150 years is due to the enhanced greenhouse effect caused by anthropogenic emission of carbon...

If ocean levels go up enough, will they have an impact on the Earth's rotational speed and the Moon's orbital radius? If so what will the effect be? It seems that all these things are tide to one another.

I was watching NOVA the other day and it had a show on GLobal Dimming. The idea that human made dust like pollutants would make clouds into super mirrors which would make temperature go down. Yet this contradicts Global Warming which raises Earth's average temperature by .8every 50 years or...

I read an article on global warming stating that it is way too late to stop global warming, too late by far. Here is the link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/13/INGP4B7GC91.DTL Despite the fact that I consider myself to be an eternal optimist, I personally think...

yes this meteor is responsible for global warming. http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/tunguska.shtml

http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0510042 He says a rise in temperature, which began between 1906 and 1909, is not caused by rising CO2, but is attributable to the Tunguska Event, which rocked a remote part of Siberia, northwest of Lake Baikal on the 30th June 1908. The Tunguska Event, is...

It's going to be interesting to see how this all affects trade, politics, agriculture, navigation... and even travel. Talk about irony! http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2034643,00.html

The Earth periodically cools and warms on a large time scale. What causes this fluctuation?

Have a look at the recent model (link below) of how much space junk is orbiting Earth and please comment on if this amount of debris could contribute to what is known as global warming. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/01/0119_060119_space_junk.html

"If you love Jesus, you'll fight global warming" Talk about a paradigm shift! http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1594855

Hi, I want to find global extremes of function f(x,y,z) = xy^{2}y^3 on the set M = \left\{[x,y,z] \in \mathbb{R}^{3}, x+2y+4z = a, x,y,z > 0\right\} I need to show that this is compact. Because I'm in \mathbb{R}^{n} it is sufficient to show it is closed and bounded. Closeness (is this...

Although the titel suggests that the thread is about another planet, the real subject is the forcing character of CO2 greenhouse gas and so it's about global warming and hence it should belong in the Earth forum. If you write a Assessment Report for the IPCC about greenhouse effect on Earth...

Finally, we now know the cause of global warming http://www.nunatsiaq.com/news/nunavut/51223_10.html Here is Simeonie Aqpik describing the shift in the weather, and why the Inuit knew the climate would change. Most of what tells is exactly what the AGW scaremongers love to hear, but wait...

There is a warming cooling pulse in Earth’s life exemplified by tracks left from ancient glaciers to deserts once flush with flora and fauna. When did all this occur and why? Here’s what I think: Moon orbits Earth, Earth orbits Sun, Sun orbits Milky Way, Milky Way orbits ? Each event takes...

emergence of economic, technological, military Superpower China is important to understand and think about http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2005/11/china-book-reviews.html books are coming out about this and so the New York Review of Books has articles like this...

This paper has been stalled for almost a year and concequentely misses the latest climate reconstructions (Moberg etc) but finally somebody got the most brilliant and original idea:rolleyes: that the heating source itself may perhaps not be ruled out completely as a factor determining...

When researching the climate during the ice ages (Pleistocene) large isotope jumps were discovered in the ice cores , and obviously they were tied to the supposed large temperature changes. This was quite logical since those spikes seem to be co-dated with ice age transitions to moderate...

so I am thinkin of wrting and essay on global warming... ive kind of decided if I am going to write it on global warming i want to argue that it does not pose a real threat. Its so cliche to write essays on effects of glbal warming and how its going to ruin our Earth and all that media hype. If...

As we know about global warming , how many of you have heard of global dimming? As you may well guess, it's all to do with the pollution effects of sunlight over the whole world, particularly in places like south east asia where there is a hell of a lot of coal burning and eccesive factories...

He's not done making change! Good for him! http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/18/AR2005091800441.html In his closing remarks Saturday the first annual Clinton Global Initiative, the former president promised progress reports on the more than 190 initiatives...

Hey there.. My pops read a book by Michael Crichton or someone like that that basically says global warming is not occurring. Every science magazine I read continually talks about global warming and shows how physicsists, climatologists, etc, are all working on ways to help remove CO2 from...

"Key Argument for Global Warming Critics Evaporates" http://www.livescience.com/environment/050811_global_warming.html

"Oregon summers reflect global warming" http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/uoo-uoo080805.php

Hey kat, I still don't have an axe to grind, but I saw a report that I found really chilling just now and it applies directly to you comment about an attack on Iran: Check the link. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20050802&articleId=791 I thought I...

The vote of the majority may say more about the convincing power of the ideas than provide an good understanding of the reality. But what do we think?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/26/AR2005042601623.html Why is it thought that aggression will lead to less terror? Particularly pre-emptive aggression? This is from a few months ago, and I don't know if it has been discussed already. I searched for relevant...

Global warming and "glaciers melting" In another thread I promised to go over all the alarming climate features like glaciers melting, sea levels rising etc, I think that was actually off topic over there so I start a fresh one. About the glaciers and ice sheets; yes, most glaciers are...

Wow! Bush says humans contribute to global warming! http://news.ft.com/cms/s/cb0c3b94-ee84-11d9-98e5-00000e2511c8.html Has hell frozen over?

Monique: Thank you for posting links to the two reviews on climate change, in the sticky thread. I am heartened to see that in fact, the PF are not comprised of global warming skeptics, as was my first impression. Both reviews lie with consensus opinion. It's been my experience that all "anti"...

Does capitalism seek to create an individualistic society? Evidence shows it does exactly the opposite. Even if some inequality may be necessary the distribution of wealth and earnings is unfair, dysfunctional, or immoral in capitalism. In the US, the shares of earnings and wealth of the...

According to http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/figspm-2.htm the carbon dioxide level has been rather constant thougout the last millennium before it started to skyrocket in the late 19th century. This information is based on the contents of ice cores of Polar ice sheets and glaciers...

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