Climate change could mean the extinction of our species

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Originally Posted by trish

Follow the really big money.

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Yup, and keep your eye on who receives money for carbon credits.

Hey Stav, you know how you tell when its summer in Seattle? ... The rain gets warmer..

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Originally Posted by Faldur

Yup, and keep your eye on who receives money for carbon credits.

Hey Stav, you know how you tell when its summer in Seattle? ... The rain gets warmer..

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It will be corporations and businesses, not climate scientists, I assure you.

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Originally Posted by trish

It will be corporations and businesses, not climate scientists, I assure you.

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Ahh.. So Al Gore.. ok got it

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Originally Posted by Faldur

Yup, and keep your eye on who receives money for carbon credits.

Hey Stav, you know how you tell when its summer in Seattle? ... The rain gets warmer..

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Funny someone said that to me at a bustop in Manchester onetime. The rain capital of the UK.

Hey Stav, you know how you tell when its summer in Seattle? ... The rain gets warmer..

It's not the warm rain you should be worried about, Mr Faldur, its the hard rain that's gonna fall...they have warm rain in Singapore, I was ok with that. But San Francisco? That's a whole other type a rain....but the view from the space needle over Puget Sound, one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. Shame to lose it.

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Originally Posted by Stavros

Shame to lose it.

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Curious, how are we going to lose it?

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Originally Posted by Prospero

Funny someone said that to me at a bustop in Manchester onetime. The rain capital of the UK.

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Often said in Scotland too, Prospero. There's a variation in Cornwall where they say that in summer at least the rain is vertical....

I have a vision of the climate change deniers still pouring scorn on the great conspiracy as the rising waters finally close over their heads.

I go walking in the Alps every other year, and can say from the evidence of my own eyes that the rate at which glaciers are disappearing is frightening, What were formidable ice sheets just 15 years or so ago are now just scraps in a muddy landscape. And what is the main carbon deposit up there in these 3,000m mountains? Diesel from cars and industrial applications.

The Alps have a delicately balanced climate and ecology, but they also have a profound effect and act as a control valve of sorts on the relatively benign weather of much of the western European landmass. As the glaciers continue to erode, the airflow that passes over the alps changes too, and if it continues at the present rate, the glorious high alpine scenery and way of life will go first, but the impact on agriculture in northern Italy, southern Germany, the midi in France and Austria will be immense. Wine yields and other crops are already down and the region has had worse flooding, again of arable land, in the last ten years than in the previous hundred.

I'm no scientist, haven't read much on the subject, but I believe the evidence of my own eyes. It may be too late already.

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Originally Posted by robertlouis

Often said in Scotland too, Prospero. There's a variation in Cornwall where they say that in summer at least the rain is vertical....

I have a vision of the climate change deniers still pouring scorn on the great conspiracy as the rising waters finally close over their heads.

I go walking in the Alps every other year, and can say from the evidence of my own eyes that the rate at which glaciers are disappearing is frightening, What were formidable ice sheets just 15 years or so ago are now just scraps in a muddy landscape. And what is the main carbon deposit up there in these 3,000m mountains? Diesel from cars and industrial applications.

The Alps have a delicately balanced climate and ecology, but they also have a profound effect and act as a control valve of sorts on the relatively benign weather of much of the western European landmass. As the glaciers continue to erode, the airflow that passes over the alps changes too, and if it continues at the present rate, the glorious high alpine scenery and way of life will go first, but the impact on agriculture in northern Italy, southern Germany, the midi in France and Austria will be immense. Wine yields and other crops are already down and the region has had worse flooding, again of arable land, in the last ten years than in the previous hundred.

I'm no scientist, haven't read much on the subject, but I believe the evidence of my own eyes. It may be too late already.

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gurgle,gurgle the water is over my head a polar bear just floated by:dead:

The science of cimate change was born in the Alps with John Tyndall's observations of glaciers in the mid-19th century...

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Originally Posted by russtafa

gurgle,gurgle the water is over my head a polar bear just floated by:dead:

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Sometimes it isn't worth the effort of replying, but I've done it anyway. :dead: