Re: How will the world end
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Global warming...this could cause a lot of natural distaters such as massive hurricanes. I don't think this is very close.
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Are you a climatologist or something? I like how sure you are.
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From Wikipedia:
"Storm strength leading to extreme weather is increasing, such as the power dissipation index of hurricane intensity[6]. Kerry Emmanuel in Nature writes that hurricane power dissipation is highly correlated with temperature, reflecting global warming. Hurricane modeling has produced similar results, finding that hurricanes, simulated under warmer, high-CO2 conditions, are more intense; there is less confidence in projections of a global decrease in numbers of hurricanes. Worldwide, the proportion of hurricanes reaching categories 4 or 5 – with wind speeds above 56 metres per second – has risen from 20% in the 1970s to 35% in the 1990s."
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there was an ice age documentary on a while ago about the 1500s. from 1520-1580 or so temperatures in central europe dropped by a some relatively huge #. there is evidence in soil samples, rocks, and tree rings.
during the next century, obviously temperatures rose by a similar #.
climatology is so ridiculously tough to see while it is going on.
now, that being said, i agree that just in case we ARE causing global warming, we should do everything humanly possible to prevent it's continuation (i.e. we shoudl recycle and i do. we should reduce emissions whenever possible and once ethanol is available by me i'll be buying it)
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