Earth Hour should be grounded (1 Viewer)

[Gay Captain]

After all of Al Gore's carrying on last year is it possible to create any more awareness?

 

[-WaxingLyrical-]

if you turn your lights off during earth hour you will not save electricity but i fact waste it
that is my point.
just because you dont use it doesnt mean it wont be produced and if everyone in the world turned off their lights for 1 hour it will not make a diffrence to global warming
in fact humans are he biggest contributors to co2 in the atmosphere through constant exhaling of carbon dioxide, we contribute 90% of all co2 by breathing, and 95% of all greenhouse gases are released by nature(including human exhaling), manmade greenhouse gas accounts for a tiny proportion of all greenhouse gas so if you think turning your lights of for ONE hour makes a diffrence well have fun doing nothing for an hour.
ps. GLOBAL WARMING IS INEVITABLE

Do you even know what you're talking about? As far back as humans have existed, they have had the ability to breathe, and the effects of global warming have been showing fairly recently in comprison to the length of human existence.
Also, the greenhouse effect in itself is not the problem, because it's essential for life on earth - rather the enhanced greenhouse effect is the problem that has contributed to global warming and hence climate change, and that has only started since the industrial revolution, and gotten steadily worse.

Earth hour will have very little impact in the grand scheme of all this, but I guess the passivity and the relative simplicity of the protest, and the little effect on our daily life makes people feel like they're doing something. I guess that's the basic aim of it all.

 

[boris]

The human population 200 years ago was.........
2007....... almost 7 billion
theres a big diffrence in population therefore co2 emissions

Fuck you and go and read up on ice core samples from 10,000 years ago and natural variation. Especially read up on natural variation. Make the term your friend.

You might be suprised to learn that temperatures we're facing now are not the hottest it has ever been Nor the most turbulant.

Fuck hippies. Seriously. Fuck them.

 

[Gay Captain]

fucking country hicks who don't believe in global warming

 

[boris]

fucking country hicks who don't believe in global warming

Sif man, I did a semester of Earth Science. My degree was full of hippies, who despite being told to the contrary WERE CONVINCED THE EARTH WAS ABOUT TO IMPLODE.

My Earth System Processes lecturer was hot, so if he says it's a crock of shit, who am I to argue?

 

[boris]

It's true. We had no less than 5 experts tell us that human contribution to weather variation was minimal, but because it was an Earth Science degree it was full of hippies who were convinced our lecturers were being paid by the Howard government to downplay global warming.

Idiots.

 

[Gay Captain]

Isn't there a massive global consensus of scientists that humans are heating the earth?

 

[boris]

Isn't there a massive global consensus of scientists that humans are heating the earth?

Depends who you ask. Quite literally.

Some argue we are directly responsible. Only problem is, some of them use data from the last 30-50 years to show the earth is heating.
Other scientists use ice core samples and other means over 10,000 years to determine heat and other factors, and have concluded humans arent directly responsible.

 

[Gay Captain]

News Ltd journalists don't count

 

[boris]

News Ltd journalists don't count

Um.
ARE YOU SAYING I SHOULDN'T TAKE EVERYTHING I READ ON NEWS.COM.AU AT FACE VALUE?

 

[Gay Captain]

Um.
ARE YOU SAYING I SHOULDN'T TAKE EVERYTHING I READ ON NEWS.COM.AU AT FACE VALUE?

I MEAN TO IMPLY THAT THE MURDOCHITLER PRESS IS POISONING YOUR MIND

or something

 

[-WaxingLyrical-]

The human population 200 years ago was.........
2007....... almost 7 billion
theres a big diffrence in population therefore co2 emissions

There has also been a global boom in businesses since then. I think the effects of that are far greater than the population jump in terms of its effects on the environment.

Greenhouse gases come from natural sources and human activity; present CO2 levels are 380 ppmv, approximately 100 ppmv higher than they were in pre-industrial times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas

 

[boris]

I MEAN TO IMPLY THAT THE MURDOCHITLER PRESS IS POISONING YOUR MIND

or something

orly

 

[Gay Captain]

orly

orally

they're behind fluoridation of our water.

 

[hairspray]

i support earth hour but looking outside... most of my neighbours has their lights turned on... ><''

 

[-WaxingLyrical-]

NO.
just like day and night global warming is inevitable

You're still in high school. What makes you such an expert?

people dont lie to little kids in primary school so it must be true

You must be a troll.

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

You might be suprised to learn that temperatures we're facing now are not the hottest it has ever been Nor the most turbulant.

Not true. They aren't the hottest temperatures that humans have ever seen, but they are the hottest temperatures this generation has seen. And since a great deal of the population of the earth seems to live in areas which would be badly affected by global warming, it seems to make sense to do something about it.

Foo.

 

[Nurse Clancy]

You people need to relax.

I love summer, and the hot temperatures have been great for my tanning.

Stop taking yourself so seriously. The world isn't going to end, gosh!

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

There's no such thing as a healthy tan

 

[Nurse Clancy]

There's no such thing as a healthy tan

Yes there is dummy, I have one.