Global... Cooling?

[Lysander]

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=332289

So yeah.. what is this? I'm just waiting for the global warming alarmists to say that the cooling was caused by the warming and WE caused it.

[Sazabi]

Oh sweet, its 1970 again!

[The Cat]

Because we totally made the sun spots inactive. Oh yes.

Or maybe some people secretly added fertilizer to the water near the south pole, creating more algea growth that would then cause the global temperatures to cool some how or another. No, just kidding, but that is a way that they could stop global warming, it's just too dangerous because it could cause an ice age, and because you should never mess with the oceans.
Yeah, that was a tiny bit off topic.

Seriously though, the people who are all crazy over global warming will probably say that the general warming of the Earth is causing harsher winters or some similar thing.

Edit/P.S.: I'm new here, so I may not know how things work, but, shouldn't this go in Biology and the Environment? Sorry.

[Lysander]

I thought of that, but Global warming is a hot button political issue, so I posted it here instead.

[The Cat]

Ah, I see. That makes sense.

[UNODRAGONE]

I am sure we are having a negative affect over all on the planet by some things we do, but lets be honest...how old is this planet!? After everything is said and done the planet is just going to shake us off like a bad case of fleas :) Look at all the things that happen to let us know we are at the mercy of this planet and who is really in charge (Katrina, tornadoes, hurricanes, earth quakes)

[greggchamberlain]

well, i can think of at least ONE upside to global warming.

[SleepingSilently]

I am sure we are having a negative affect over all on the planet by some things we do, but lets be honest...how old is this planet!? After everything is said and done the planet is just going to shake us off like a bad case of fleas :) Look at all the things that happen to let us know we are at the mercy of this planet and who is really in charge (Katrina, tornadoes, hurricanes, earth quakes)
actually in retrospect the planet is young compared to others.

[Galliard]

well, i can think of at least ONE upside to global warming.

Okay, I''l bite: what's the upside to global warming?

[UNODRAGONE]

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2008/planet.in.peril/

[Krallis]

Global warming is a shit idea so is this. WE didn't cause it. It's a climate shift, something that has ocurred naturally before (last ice age).

[Vendetta]

WE don't KNOW if we caused it.
Fixed for you.

Please to seperate fact from speculation