Climate change...

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Do you believe Climate Change/Global Warming is a result of modern society

Strongly believe
21
24%
Believe
14
16%
50/50 , not yet sure
12
13%
dont believe
25
28%
Strongly dont believe
17
19%
 
Total votes : 89

Re: Climate change...

Postby fish » Tue Feb 12, 2013 3:00 pm

New map pinpoints cities to avoid as sea levels rise

SYDNEY, Tokyo and Buenos Aires watch out. These cities will experience some of the greatest sea level rises by 2100, according to one of the most comprehensive predictions to date.

Sea levels have been rising for over 100 years - not evenly, though. Several processes are at work, says Mahé Perrette of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. Some land is sinking, some is rising. Stronger currents create slopes in sea surface, and since all things with mass exert a gravitation pull, disappearing ice sheets lead to a fall in sea levels in their surrounding areas.

Perrette has modelled all of these effects and calculated local sea level rises in 2100 for the entire planet. While the global average rise is predicted to be between 30 and 106 centimetres, he says tropical seas will rise 10 or 20 per cent more, while polar seas will see a below-average rise. Coasts around the Indian Ocean will be hard hit, as will Japan, south-east Australia and Argentina.
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Re: Climate change...

Postby fish » Tue Feb 12, 2013 3:06 pm

Kiribati to buy Fiji land amid rising sea levels

Kiribati has confirmed plans to buy land in Fiji to ensure food security for the island's population against the effects of climate change.

President Anote Tong says the 6,000 acres of land in Fiji's Vanua Levu will be used to plant food crops, not to relocate Kiribati residents.

Kiribati has been hard hit by rising sea levels, with sea water contaminating fresh water ponds and food crops.

Mr Tong has told Radio Australia the intrusion of sea water is seriously affecting food crop availability and causing irreversible erosion to land.

"We've been having these discussions in New Dehli for the past week, and everyone's talking about what is happening to communities, and nobody truly understands that the degree of vulnerability is different from country to country," he said.

"At this time, at this moment in time, we are at the very extreme end of the vulnerability scale. We're on the front line."
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Re: Climate change...

Postby scoob » Tue Feb 12, 2013 3:09 pm

Maybe we should all turn on our AC flat out, open our fridge and freezers to cool things down a bit!
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Re: Climate change...

Postby fish » Tue Feb 12, 2013 3:11 pm

scoob wrote:
FFS - look up hysteria in the dictionary and there is a pic of this article!
Make no mistake scoob, heatwaves can be deadly.

2003 European heat wave

The 2003 European heat wave was the hottest summer on record in Europe since at least 1540. France was hit especially hard. The heat wave led to health crises in several countries and combined with drought to create a crop shortfall in parts of Southern Europe. Peer reviewed analysis places the European death toll at 70,000.
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Re: Climate change...

Postby dedja » Tue Feb 12, 2013 3:18 pm

Based on the current state of the poll, 38% agree, 46% disagree and 15% aren't sure (where did the other 1% go?) that society is affecting climate.

Are you still suggesting that this is not all a natural phenomena?
Dunno, I’m just an idiot.

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Re: Climate change...

Postby scoob » Tue Feb 12, 2013 3:20 pm

fish wrote:
scoob wrote:
FFS - look up hysteria in the dictionary and there is a pic of this article!
Make no mistake scoob, heatwaves can be deadly.

2003 European heat wave

The 2003 European heat wave was the hottest summer on record in Europe since at least 1540. France was hit especially hard. The heat wave led to health crises in several countries and combined with drought to create a crop shortfall in parts of Southern Europe. Peer reviewed analysis places the European death toll at 70,000.


No sh!t - why do you think I suggested using our fridges and freezers... deadly times call for deadly* measures!

*Deadly as in cool innovative ways to keep things cool
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Re: Climate change...

Postby The Sleeping Giant » Tue Feb 12, 2013 3:21 pm

Records are made to be broken.
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Re: Climate change...

Postby therisingblues » Tue Feb 12, 2013 6:13 pm

dedja wrote:Based on the current state of the poll, 38% agree, 46% disagree and 15% aren't sure (where did the other 1% go?) that society is affecting climate.

Are you still suggesting that this is not all a natural phenomena?

Still?
How silly of him to fly in the face of an 8% differential on a footy poll. With what to back him up? Scientists! What do they know about climate change that the average SANFL follower doesn't know better? ;)
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Re: Climate change...

Postby dedja » Tue Feb 12, 2013 7:01 pm

Yes still!

Everyone accepts Newspoll and that is based on about the same amount of rigour as this poll ...

:lol:
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Re: Climate change...

Postby therisingblues » Wed Feb 13, 2013 3:32 pm

So if we made a poll that resulted in a majority of posters voting that Do-Do birds are not extinct they'd magically reappear?
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Re: Climate change...

Postby The Sleeping Giant » Wed Feb 13, 2013 3:42 pm

They aren't. I seen a flock of them fly past yesterday.
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Re: Climate change...

Postby therisingblues » Wed Feb 13, 2013 4:12 pm

What'd they look like?
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Re: Climate change...

Postby The Sleeping Giant » Wed Feb 13, 2013 4:18 pm

Dodo.
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Re: Climate change...

Postby therisingblues » Wed Feb 13, 2013 5:37 pm

And you're sure they were flying? I mean they weren't walking were they?
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Re: Climate change...

Postby The Sleeping Giant » Wed Feb 13, 2013 7:18 pm

They have evolved
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Re: Climate change...

Postby therisingblues » Wed Feb 13, 2013 11:19 pm

I'll only believe it if a safooty poll finds in favour of the question "do you believe a flock of evolved Dodos flew past TSG's window recently" by more than 8%.
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Re: Climate change...

Postby The Sleeping Giant » Thu Feb 14, 2013 12:07 am

And they taste yummy
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Re: Climate change...

Postby Bat Pad » Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:15 am

The Sleeping Giant wrote:And they taste yummy


Apparently they tasted horrible.
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Re: Climate change...

Postby The Sleeping Giant » Thu Feb 14, 2013 11:12 am

Not using the right herbs and spices.
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Re: Climate change...

Postby therisingblues » Thu Feb 14, 2013 12:32 pm

Bat Pad wrote:
The Sleeping Giant wrote:And they taste yummy


Apparently they tasted horrible.

Well, they've evolved now, apparently.
We thought they were extinct when actually all the delicious ones just flew away.
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