Uncia on 14/2/2007 at 09:19
This thread suddenly redeemed itself. <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bc0mG5omTo">:D</A>
Rogue Keeper on 15/2/2007 at 07:23
And now for something completely different !
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Man-made climate change may be happening at a far slower rate than has been claimed, according to controversial new research.
Scientists say that cosmic rays from outer space play a far greater role in changing the Earth's climate than global warming experts previously thought.
Henrik Svensmark, a weather scientist at the Danish National Space Centre who led the team behind the research, believes that the planet is experiencing a natural period of low cloud cover due to fewer cosmic rays entering the atmosphere.
A team of more than 60 scientists from around the world are preparing to conduct a large-scale experiment using a particle accelerator in Geneva, Switzerland, to replicate the effect of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere.
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Uncia on 15/2/2007 at 07:49
If cosmic rays lessen the effects of global warming, wouldn't their supposed shortage strengthen man's effect on the climate by taking away that safety net?
Turtle on 15/2/2007 at 18:53
Wait, so when I get an MRI they will see that I'm thinking about clouds and they will arrest me?
What the fuck is going on here?
demagogue on 15/2/2007 at 23:14
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If cosmic rays lessen the effects of global warming, wouldn't their supposed shortage strengthen man's effect on the climate by taking away that safety net?
Less cloud coverage means hotter earth (an important point they failed to mention!). I think the idea is that the lack of cosmic rays, by causing less cloud coverage, contributes even *more* to global warming (not less), more as in more than human activity. What is supposed to be lessened is the human contribution to the problem, the key word being "man-made" change is slower. They did a piss poor job of making that clear, though.
I'd suppose the controversy is: the less humans contribute, the less they'll be "responsible" for slowing things down themselves, under their own power (although something seems perverse about that logic; if we found an asteroid flying at earth, we'd still feel responsible to do something). It could just mean that "Oh, fucking great, the universe has conspired to speed up climate change even more than we screwed ourselves right at this moment in history. Nice timing, jerk."
Either way, I think the most manageable final solution at this point -- the one we can really trust ourselves to get right -- is to simply increase the level of smog by dirty emissions. That will give us the coverage we need. :cool:
Shug on 16/2/2007 at 01:11
Quote Posted by Turtle
Wait, so when I get an MRI they will see that I'm thinking about clouds and they will arrest me?
What the fuck is going on here?
I'm thinking the sexually deviant activity in your brain will be the main reason
