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Old 02-26-2007, 09:57 PM
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Default Global warming on a personal level

I have just seen the AL Gore movie An inconvenient truth. And i must say that he dont add anything new i didnt heard or read before. Then i log in to forums like this and can see threads and messages who try to deny or question the problem of global warming.
Is global warming a problem today?
Will it be a problem in the future?
I am not a scientist who have all the facts clear and ready to lauch on a forum like this, but i have a feeling that it is something wrong, and Al Gore have a very important point. As he said in the Academy award it is not a political issue it is a moral issue.
I can only tell this problem from my perspective but it is thrilling enought.

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Erwin was a powerful storm which hit Denmark and Sweden on 8 January 2005. The name Erwin was chosen by the German Weather Service, while the storm was named Gudrun by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. Sustained wind speeds of 126 km/h with wind gusts of 165 km/h were measured in Hanstholm, Denmark - the same strength as a Category 1 hurricane. At least 17 people died in the storm.

The storm caused a lot of financial damage in Sweden, where the forest industry suffered greatly from damaged trees, as more than 7,500,000 cubic metres of trees were blown down in southern Sweden. This resulted in sweden, at the time had the worlds biggest storage of lumber and got visited by enthusiasts all over the world because of the overwhealming stock sites. This was a huge blow to the lumber inustry and the goverment had to pay out enormous insurense money to the victims. About 341,000 homes lost power in Sweden and several thousand of these were out of power for many days and even weeks in some cases, as about 10,000 homes were still without power after three weeks. The death toll in Sweden was seven victims, while four were killed in Denmark.
I know beacuse i live in just that area there the storm named Gudrun hitted the worst. I remember i heard strange noise outside the window and could see the results the morning after. The last storm who hit sweden before Gudrun was in 1969, and it wasnt so big or caused so much damage as this one did.

I middle January this year we had our warmest Januari month i have ever experienced. The snow had been absent the whole winter, and it idndt came until in February. Some late evenings in January i could see the temperature was 9 Celsius outside. And that is what the temperature used to be in Late March or/and April here, not in middle January. Something is wrong with the climate!

Another point is what do you do on a personal level to reduce the global warming?
I think i do pretty much, i dont have a car, i use mass transit buses, trains to get around, or even walk if it is not to far away. I have that kind of lifestyle and i dont see that it is something strange or special with that. My countries infrastructure are very mass transit friendly with good bus connections to many part of the country eys even to countries abroad. Yes even within the cities the local transports are very good and used.

What do you others do?
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Old 03-04-2007, 07:21 PM
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Yo dude! I lived in sweden for 6 months in 2001 - kind of miss it.
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Old 03-06-2007, 05:48 AM
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Default The climate is changing

I live in Asia and I noticed that the climate has changed over the years. For instance, the summer has become hotter and the rainy season is often delayed by a month. There are also less rainfall and sometimes it rains on months that are normally dry. I also noticed that the populated cities are a lot hotter than less populated or crowded ones. So I guess we should be concerned about global warming.

When it comes to doing something about it, well I also don't have a car but mostly because I can't afford it. Even if I have enough money to buy one, the high price of gas will make a huge dent in my budget. In my country, a liter of gasoline cost more than a US dollar. That's very costly since the average worker only earns about $ 200 a month.
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Default The climate changes all the time

Sorry to disillusion you, but human-caused global warming (especially as a "crisis") is basically hot air. Science is making new discoveries all the time, and increasingly found in the learned journals are papers that Al Gore and his ilk either mis-represented (a judge in the UK ruled that for all schools in the UK to show 'An Inconvenient Truth' the 9 major errors and mis-representations must be told to all the students) or ignored.

Sea levels aren't accelerating in their rise, nor are any islands threatened with migration. Hurricanes aren't getting stronger due to global warming. The Thermohaline circulation (gulf stream) isn't slowing down, let alone threatening to stop, thereby plunging Europe into another ice age. Wildfires world-wide aren't increasing in acres burned. Polar bears and other wildlife aren't threatened. Coral reefs aren't going into decline.

If what appears in the peer-reviewed journals is any indication, the argument isn't "about over," it's only begun! There is no consensus of scientists on what's causing the observed warming (that it's happening is no indication of why), or what will likely happen due to it. Empirical science (i.e. done without using false science like a computer model) is increasingly saying all those doomsday scenarios are pure fiction.
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