Alarm at new climate warning

[Beemer]

Temperatures around the world could rise by as much as 11C, according to one of the largest climate prediction projects ever run.

So what would that make the temperature range for Canada be???

Full Story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4210629.stm

[KryoNexus]

lol, there probably wouldn't be a whole lot of canada left. 11C is about 51F. I'm sure that would cause a nice chunk of the polar ice caps to melt ;-)

[Trunks]

See my thread in "Laid Back" Winter in Canada for a temperature range of Eastern canada, or at least nova scotia:P

[Beemer]

See my thread in "Laid Back" Winter in Canada for a temperature range of Eastern canada, or at least nova scotia:P

That is what I was referring to, Canada will turn into Mexico's climate...

[XPTB]

See my thread in "Laid Back" Winter in Canada for a temperature range of Eastern canada, or at least nova scotia:P

That is what I was referring to, Canada will turn into Mexico's climate...


Wooooo! Break out the sun screen and the Hawaiian shirts!

[undergroundtech]

See my thread in "Laid Back" Winter in Canada for a temperature range of Eastern canada, or at least nova scotia:P

That is what I was referring to, Canada will turn into Mexico's climate...


Wooooo! Break out the sun screen and the Hawaiian shirts!

YEAH!! Thats what I'm talking about, palm trees and coconut Hotties 8)

[Trunks]

haha bloody windchill of -36ºC tomorrow brrr

[fstroupe]

When I was in high school (1972-1976), they told us that if the polar ice caps melted 1%, that NYC would be totally under water.

I heard recently that due to "global warming" the polar ice caps have melted 11%. The Appalatian mountains should be beach front property by now.

I read an article probably 5 years ago that the past 17 years had been the warmest on record. I was immediately pissed off...why, do you ask?
Because 99% of everyone that read that would take it at face value. Why 17 years? Why not 5, 10, 20, or 100? 17 years was the only number that they could make work.

There are three main reasons that I think "global warming" is a bunch of BS:

1. The continued study of it depends on either it being real, or probably real.

continued study = paycheck for scientists

Without continued study, those scientists will either have to research weather at a local TV station, be a weatherman, or flip burgers at McDonalds.

2. The earth is 4.55 billion years old. (at least that's the widely accepted theory) Men have been keeping records of temperatures for less than 150 years. How can you call it a trend if your test sample is like 1/30,000,000th of the whole? The last ice age ended around 10,000 years ago. If the earth is actually warming, how do we know that it isn't part of the warming trend that started then?

3. The typical massive volcano eruption (i.e. Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Pinatubo) spews more "greenhouse gases" into the atmosphere in one day than man has created in 10000 years. Every major volcano eruption should therefore cause the earth's temperature to rise noticeably.

[Beemer]

When I was in high school (1972-1976), they told us that if the polar ice caps melted 1%, that NYC would be totally under water.

Yeah, doesnt ice EXPAND as it freezes? Its always been something that bothered me. Even considering that the ice lies above sea level, the oceans are really really big, so when it melts it not only gets smaller but it is going into a huge body of water. At best I would think that it could only raise the overall level of the oceans by a couple feet. Maybe thats too much common sense...

[achilles]

Yeah but who said scientists had to have common sense...
Anybody see the movie Day after Tomorrow man that was some studipity as well.