Will Global Warming Effect Islands?

Re: Will Global Warming Effect Islands? - by HST

HST — Fri May 22, 2009 2:40 pm

Author: HST

Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 2:40 pm

Check this out katvira.

Re: Will Global Warming Effect Islands? - by katvira

katvira — Fri May 22, 2009 7:09 am

Author: katvira

Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 7:09 am

How is deforestation causing global warming and why is that bad for us?
I have to do this report for my World History class about why I think humans are causing global warming. I had to pick three reasons, and one of them was deforestation. So how is this causing global warming and why is it bad for us?

Re: Will Global Warming Effect Islands? - by Rod

Rod — Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:55 am

Author: Rod

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:55 am

vivalibre wrote:

Can you name a prominent scientist who shares your disbelief in climate change?

Dr. Edward Wegman--former chairman of the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics of the National Academy of Sciences--demolishes the famous "hockey stick" graph that launched the global warming panic.

Dr. David Bromwich--president of the International Commission on Polar Meteorology--says "it's hard to see a global warming signal from the mainland of Antarctica right now."

Prof. Paul Reiter--Chief of Insects and Infectious Diseases at the famed Pasteur Institute--says "no major scientist with any long record in this field" accepts Al Gore's claim that global warming spreads mosquito-borne diseases.

Prof. Hendrik Tennekes--director of research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute--states "there exists no sound theoretical framework for climate predictability studies" used for global warming forecasts.

Dr. Christopher Landsea--past chairman of the American Meteorological Society's Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones--says "there are no known scientific studies that show a conclusive physical link between global warming and observed hurricane frequency and intensity."

Dr. Antonino Zichichi--one of the world's foremost physicists, former president of the European Physical Society, who discovered nuclear antimatter--calls global warming models "incoherent and invalid."

Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski--world-renowned expert on the ancient ice cores used in climate research--says the U.N. "based its global-warming hypothesis on arbitrary assumptions and these assumptions, it is now clear, are false."

Prof. Tom V. Segalstad--head of the Geological Museum, University of Oslo--says "most leading geologists" know the U.N.'s views "of Earth processes are implausible."

Dr. Syun-Ichi Akasofu--founding director of the International Arctic Research Center, twice named one of the "1,000 Most Cited Scientists," says much "Arctic warming during the last half of the last century is due to natural change."

Dr. Claude Allegre--member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences and French Academy of Science, he was among the first to sound the alarm on the dangers of global warming. His view now: "The cause of this climate change is unknown."

Dr. Richard Lindzen--Professor of Meteorology at M.I.T., member, the National Research Council Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, says global warming alarmists "are trumpeting catastrophes that couldn't happen even if the models were right."

Dr. Habibullo Abdussamatov--head of the space research laboratory of the Russian Academy of Science's Pulkovo Observatory and of the International Space Station's Astrometria project says "the common view that man's industrial activity is a deciding factor in global warming has emerged from a misinterpretation of cause and effect relations."

Dr. Richard Tol--Principal researcher at the Institute for Environmental Studies at Vrije Universiteit, and Adjunct Professor at the Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change, at Carnegie Mellon University, calls the most influential global warming report of all time "preposterous . . . alarmist and incompetent."

Dr. Sami Solanki--director and scientific member at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany, who argues that changes in the Sun's state, not human activity, may be the principal cause of global warming: "The sun has been at its strongest over the past 60 years and may now be affecting global temperatures."

Prof. Freeman Dyson--one of the world's most eminent physicists says the models used to justify global warming alarmism are "full of fudge factors" and "do not begin to describe the real world."

Dr. Eigils Friis-Christensen--director of the Danish National Space Centre, vice-president of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, who argues that changes in the Sun's behavior could account for most of the warming attributed by the UN to man-made CO2.

http://www.amazon.com/Deniers-Renowned-Scientists-Political-Persecution/dp/0980076315

When did global warming start? - by Warner

Warner — Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:46 am

Author: Warner

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:46 am

Jimmy Carter is a big global warming guy, but he never mentioned global warming when he was President. He had access to all the data from the National Weather service, yet he never mentioned anything about global warming. I take it that global warming must have started when Ronald Reagan was elected. When do you say that global warming started.

Re: Will Global Warming Effect Islands? - by Warner

Warner — Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:18 pm

Author: Warner

Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:18 pm

[quote="Stevv"]Hmm you remind me of someone... but he doesn't live in VA beach. Anyway... Here is a map showing some waming Earth:
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8c/Global_Warming_Map.jpg[/img]

Here is sea level rise:

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Recent_Sea_Level_Rise.png[/img]

(And because I have to, I'll say this is all under the Global Warming Act by Robert A. Rohde and released under GNU Free Documentation License, and so I have to let t his post be available under that license)[/quote]

Thanks for trying Stevv. I think your heart is in the right place, even if I do not agree with you. You showed a map with some colors on it with no facts or numbers to back it up. Where is any proof? Where are the temperature records? What is the perfect temperature for the earth? What temperature would you like it to be? No one will even tell us that. It looks like they just want it to be what ever temperature it was when Jimmy Carter was President.

Re: Will Global Warming Effect Islands? - by enjoythesilence

enjoythesilence — Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:49 pm

Author: enjoythesilence

Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:49 pm

Definitely, agentyumi, these little atoll and island nations are really the canaries in the coalmine for problems that will eventually hit the developed world- and hard. Few people might know where Nuie is, but they'd better be concerned if it gets swamped by rising seas!

Re: Will Global Warming Effect Islands? - by agentyumi

agentyumi — Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:55 pm

Author: agentyumi

Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:55 pm

Environmentalists have warned that global warming, caused by a build-up of greenhouse gases, will cause thermal expansion and a meltdown of glaciers. That could lead to seas rising by up to 23ft, and would be devastating for countries such as Bangladesh, India, Vietnam and China. But the tiny nations of the Pacific, where some of the world's lowest-lying islands are situated, would be the first to be swamped. Those considered particularly vulnerable, as well as Kiribati, are Vanuatu; the Marshall Islands; Tuvalu and parts of Papua New Guinea.

Global warming causes some unexplained circumstances in our environment. For example, because of higher waves and more violent storms it threatens to wash away the tiny island nation within this century.

Re: Will Global Warming Effect Islands? - by vivalibre

vivalibre — Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:13 pm

Author: vivalibre

Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:13 pm

Wow Stevv, great find!

For all the global warming deniers spouting off their talking points, I'm going to take a page out of your book: Can you name a prominent scientist who shares your disbelief in climate change? How about a tenured professor at a top American university? In fact, can you name a single RESPECTED (ie. not employed by industry) member of the scientific community who denies that humans are having an impact on our climate?

No, but of course you know better than some egghead Ph.D., don't you. Nevermind decades of study and research- it was a cool summer and it barely snowed last winter, so climate change doesn't exist!

Re: Will Global Warming Effect Islands? - by Stevv

Stevv — Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:01 am

Author: Stevv

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:01 am

Hmm you remind me of someone... but he doesn't live in VA beach. Anyway... Here is a map showing some waming Earth:

Here is sea level rise:

(And because I have to, I'll say this is all under the Global Warming Act by Robert A. Rohde and released under GNU Free Documentation License, and so I have to let t his post be available under that license)

Re: Will Global Warming Effect Islands? - by Warner

Warner — Tue Sep 02, 2008 10:40 pm

Author: Warner

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 10:40 pm

This is for you global warming guys. In the last one hundred years, how much ocean ries has there been? If you don't know tell us what you think it is. If you do know then tell us what it really is. If you are just guessing that is OK just say so.

Re: Will Global Warming Effect Islands? - by Warner

Warner — Tue Sep 02, 2008 10:12 pm

Author: Warner

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 10:12 pm

If you think that there is global warming. What do you think is the right temperature for the earth to be? If you think that the ocean has risen, how much do you think that is has risen? I think that man made global warming is a scam. Global warming is a weapon that the left likes to use to destroy ,what they call capitalism, and we on the right call freedom.

Re: Will Global Warming Effect Islands? - by Stevv

Stevv — Mon Jun 30, 2008 1:47 am

Author: Stevv

Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 1:47 am

I actually read a news article many months ago and it was interesting because the people in Kiribati--which is getting smaller and some of its islands sinking due to global warming--point out that the most common visitors are ones from the biggest polluters in the world--USA! I seriously think there is a problem with USA and polluting, because until very recently, it was the biggest polluter in the world, and the new biggest polluter, China, has 4 times as many people and a growing economy and military. The EU, commonly said to contain the most "developed" countries in the world along with USA Japan S. Korea and a few others, has 50% more people but 1/2 of pollution as the USA.

Re: Will Global Warming Effect Islands? - by littlemermaid

littlemermaid — Wed May 28, 2008 4:05 pm

Author: littlemermaid

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 4:05 pm

Land rising and falling due to tectonic plate action has been a well-known scientific phenomenon for many decades- but I disagree that it's responsible for the issues now associated with climate change.

Plate tectonics results in a *small* amount of rising or sinking, but it's the interplay between this a climate change that will truly cause problems.

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/stories/s288994.htm

On the other hand, a significant rise in planetary temperatures may disrupt plate tectonics itself:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080512135102.htm

Re: Will Global Warming Effect Islands? - by vivalibre

vivalibre — Mon May 26, 2008 3:41 pm

Author: vivalibre

Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 3:41 pm

Hmm... that's a good point about tectonic plates, although I still feel that there are dangers from climate change. Here is an interesting blog post about the subject...

http://ianmott.blogspot.com/2007/03/rising-sea-levels-or-just-sinking.html

Re: Will Global Warming Effect Islands? - by markre

markre — Thu May 22, 2008 12:50 pm

Author: markre

Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 12:50 pm

unlikely...they show islands that are sinking due to tetonic plates, but blame it on global warming.