Blah Blah Cafe, the Jean-Michel Jarre forum

[Robi]

, I will not be proud of this. It's a disgrace. There is humans who care.

There is sure, the minority. At the moment.
Anyway i do have hope really that human will change the source of energies to alternatives sources, sooner or later,.. what worries me - this can be too late. If we cut off the whole Amazonas...then what?
What will absorv CO2 cleaning the air with O2 ?

I wanna be optimistic. I'm trying not to waste.
Wind, solar energy, hydrogen...? Energies of future! Must be!

[Robi]

Chain reaction is working...

http://www.physorg.com/news139315982.html



"Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is leaking from the permafrost under the Siberian seabed, a researcher on an international expedition in the region told Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter on Saturday.
"The permafrost now has small holes. We have found elevated levels of methane above the water surface and even more in the water just below. It is obvious that the source is the seabed," Oerjan Gustafsson, the Swedish leader of the International Siberian Shelf Study, told the newspaper.

The tests were carried out in the Laptev and east Siberian seas and used much more precise measuring equipment than previous studies, he said.

Methane is more than 20 times more efficient than carbon dioxide in trapping solar heat.

Scientists fear that global warming may cause Siberia's permafrost to thaw and thereby release vast amounts of methane into the atmosphere. The effects of global warming are already most visible in the Arctic region."



"Help us! "

[Jon]

I only caught a few seconds of it on the news yesterday, but some British canoist is currently canoeing around the pole(s) seeing how bad the ice melt is.

[Velodynamic]

I only caught a few seconds of it on the news yesterday, but some British canoist is currently canoeing around the pole(s) seeing how bad the ice melt is.

Wich also could mean; finally breakfast for some hungry polar bears.

[Kanta]

Yes, they can drown on a full stomach.

[Robi]

http://australyear.blogspot.com/

Good blog about South Pole, read it from the beginning!

[Kanta]

Thanxs for the link. A very informative read.

[Velodynamic]

"Antarctic ice expands - global warming at work ? "
http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/20 ... g-at-work/



"Ozone hole over Antarctica biggest on record."
The September 16, 2008, ozone hole covers 27 million square kilometers, compared with 25 million kilometers in 2007 - bigger than North America.
http://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov



Mother nature is changing pretty fast these days so it seems...
"constant in motion, the future is".

[Kanta]

Rubber ducks help scientists understand global warming

[Robi]

Atmospheric CO2 growth

Annual mean growth rate of atmospheric CO2 was 2.2 ppm per year in 2007 (up from 1.8 ppm in 2006), and above the 2.0 ppm average for the period 2000-2007. The average annual mean growth rate for the previous 20 years was about 1.5 ppm per year. This increase brought the atmospheric CO2 concentration to 383 ppm in 2007, 37% above the concentration at the start of the industrial revolution (about 280 ppm in 1750). The present concentration is the highest during the last 650,000 years and probably during the last 20 million years. [ppm = parts per million].

[Kanta]

Polar warming 'caused by humans'

[AnDrOiD]

Note to The Android Agency:

"In order to rescue the Earth's climate, destroy all human beings. Commence phase One!"

[Analog-Umph]

Note to The Android Agency:

"In order to rescue the Earth's climate, destroy all human beings. Commence faze One!"

"faze" -

Dictionary meaning:

1. Disturb the composure of...

[mathetes1963]

I've been pretty quiet on this "global warming" hysteria up until now for fear of "offending" people, but frankly, my thoughts on the matter can be summed up in the following quotes:

• "Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please." - Mark Twain
  "If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything." - Fred Menger
  
  And I don't recall who said this, but:
  "Too many people accept too much upon the basis of too little."

Yes, I'm a global warming skeptic, I freely admit it. To my mind, one can file global warming right next to "Y2K", "killer bees", or the doomsayers who say we're on threshold of a recession, even though the economy is stronger now than 20 years ago. The climate data says nothing of itself, it must be INTERPRETED, and the interpretation depends in large measure on the proclivities of those doing the interpreting. The radical environmentalists are in the majority, so that is the opinion accepted by the masses. Take the long view, people, and don't let yourself be swept up by mass hysteria.

• "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

OK, I've said my piece, I'm sorry if it may ruffle some feathers on this board, but there it is.

[Kanta]

Note to The Android Agency:

"In order to rescue the Earth's climate, destroy all human beings. Commence faze One!"

You'll have a busy day, then.

OK, I've said my piece, I'm sorry if it may ruffle some feathers on this board, but there it is.

On the contrary, your opinion was very nice to read.