It is!

I noticed something. On both sides of the global warming, people make the same assumption.

They assume that global warming is bad.

When did we decide this? Was there a meeting that I missed? Hasn't anyone considered that maybe it's a good thing? I'd certainly take rising sea levels over encroaching ice flows myself. Maybe mother Earth got tired of being all iced over and wants to be nice and warm again. I mean, can we actually do anything against nature? Aren't we part of nature?

It snowed here (Virginia) last night, too.

Snow? Snow! Snow.

I hate snow and ice so global warming's not totally bad, I guess.

I want snow

Temperatures go up and nature dies. It has happened before - 250 million years ago at the end of the Permian period 95% of life on earth was wiped out by a freak greenhouse effect caused by massive volcanic eruptions. 6 degrees of global warming was enough to make 9 out of every 10 species extinct.

On a more personal level, if you live anywhere near a coastline and are yet to develop gills, global warming is bad.

SILLY SPORK THE EARTH IS ONLY 5000 YEARS OLD :downs:

It's been snowing on and off for days here..I'm ready for spring..

it was 80 degrees here 4 days ago
and now there is snow on the ground
oh williamsburg, what is wrong with your weather?

A green house effect that caused volcanic eruptions?


EDIT: Oh wait, I mis read after all.

It snowed here in North Texas this morning..

I want heat

It was sunny and about 19 degrees today.

It's like fricken 80 degrees out here. (I love it)

Snow?

We've had really warm weather for the past little while, then all of a sudden a couple of days ago the temperature just dropped. We've had snow flurries constantly, and last night we actually got a little bit of accumulation (like, 1 cm, but still, it's April). I think this is the latest I can ever remember it snowing, not to mention snowing and actually sticking around.

It was in the 70's until Thursday, when it snowed a little. It still hasn't warmed up any yet. But crazy weather is pretty much normal in Kansas.

it snowed yesterday and it was 80 earlier this week

april pulled a giant april fools on us, sunny and getting up to the 60s, AND THEN SNOWSTORMS AND COLD

stupid weather

Oh yeah, and Ice Ages are SO MUCH MORE ****ing fun.

Yesterday it went from 80 degrees, to 50...there was no wind, then there was 50 mph gusts. There was sunshine and then there was a downpour. That happened in four hours. It was snowing this morning (and there are still randomly some flurries.) Overall, it's been really interesting trying to figure out what to wear. >_>

It's been below freezing for the last few days here. Getting kind of annoying. Global warming is meh, but I sure wouldn't mind some local warming.

Though, two years ago when I went home for the summer at the end of April there was a snowstorm. Silly weather.

Temperatures go down and nature dies. In fact, ice ages create deserts, global warming creates rain forests. Which would you rather have? Deserts or rain forests?

I'm having trouble detecting whether you are joking, Isuwen... do you really think global climate change will result in healthier rainforests?

Wasn't it alot warmer when the dinosaurs were around anyways? I don't seem to recall Global Warming killing them, I seem to recall a meteor killing them.

edit: and if its good enough for the dinosaurs, it's good enough for me.

what idiot would think that

Several people do.

Global warming is a political machine invented for power. Idiots believe that humans are the cause of the so called "rise in temperatures" when really the temperatures of the earth post ice age have been changing in cyclic patterns and that we are not even at the peak of the heat that we have had since then. ITS ****ING SNOWING IN TEXAS RIGHT NOW.

Statements like these are equally as :downs: as what the treehuggers spout on a daily basis.

I'll take the dessert. Especially if it's a plesantly cool one.

Wow. Just wow.

You know a desert is a place that is devoid of any precipitation, right?

There are few climates around that are pleasantly cool and have no precipitation.

^^ Devoid implies a complete lack of precipitation. A desert means that evaporation exceeds precipitation.

Desertification == bad.

Humid rain forests == good.

Deserts have little life, bad.

Rain forests have LOTS of life, good.

And you know dessert is the tasty treat that comes after dinner, right?

Learn to read.

I hate you, JG.


And I hate Rob... way more.

Discovery's Planet Earth begs to differ.

This man states the truth. Deserts are all full of life, just not always visible.

Well I never said that they were completely uninhabited. I knew that there is life in the deserts. I don't know how much life there is in a desert. The closest desert I have is about an hour east and usually it's VERY barren.

Anyone who tries to say a desert has more life then a rainforest is stupid. Rainforests are like a solid mass of living stuff.

Then there are no stupid people on this board, since nobody has openly challenged that fact.

Yes! Clearly, global warming will expand the tropical zone!

And there are plenty of cool places without precipitation. Like Antarctica. That's the problem with glaciers - they bottle all the water up as ice so that it can't fall as rain. Thus, they create deserts. Very cold deserts. The Sahara used to be a lush tropical zone. Even as recently as Roman times, large portions of it were farm land. Then we went and had the mini ice age that caused the European dark ages, which we only just pulled out of last century. And now the Sahara is expanding incredibly quickly.

Do you know what saved Europe from the mini ice age? Pollution! The ice age before that we were all running around hurling rocks at tigers. We barely had fire, we weren't living in giant cities and burning forests. But by time the mini ice age came around, we were. When it started to get cold, people just stuck another log on the fire. Europe was almost entirely deforested. All that smoke - that green house gas - saved us from an ice age. We might be in one now, with ice all the way south to the Ohio river, if not for all that pollution.

What's even odder is how vocal people are about it now, after all the really bad stuff has been cleaned up. The people whining today weren't around to see Akron Ohio with an inch of soot on every exposed surface and the Cuyahoga river burning!

Besides, it's all moot. Everything we do is what nature wants, because we are nature. It is as impossible to act against nature as it is for a rock to act against the earth. The rock can't act against the Earth, because it is part of the earth! They are the same thing! The matter that is the Earth encompasses that which is the rock!

"The ocean is a desert with it's life underground"

...Did isuwen just say...that global warming... Will help earth?
[BTW Isuwen. Yer gay lolz.]