OK, you don't take it seriously, and you are not a climate scientist. I won't label you a denialist, because I don't think you are one of "those people", but I don't think that dismissing climate change on the basis of the earth being a tough rock is a very good argument. Yeah, sure, the earth will survive; that isn't the figure of merit that we're interested in. The bigger question is what will happen to the inhabitants of earth in the near term, like say the next few centuries.
People will adapt like they always do.
BTW, why did you link to "Global Warming Fast Facts" from the National Geographic, and say it was from the "evil oil companies"?
A follow-up report by the IPCC released in April 2007 warned that global warming could lead to large-scale food and water shortages and have catastrophic effects on wildlife.
• Sea level could rise between 7 and 23 inches (18 to 59 centimeters) by century's end, the IPCC's February 2007 report projects. Rises of just 4 inches (10 centimeters) could flood many South Seas islands and swamp large parts of Southeast Asia.
• Some hundred million people live within 3 feet (1 meter) of mean sea level, and much of the world's population is concentrated in vulnerable coastal cities. In the U.S., Louisiana and Florida are especially at risk.
your information is coming from the denialist community or fossil fuel industry.
Was that supposed to be where you got the assertion that Florida would be underwater in 40 years? It didn't say that... Of all places, in a thread titled "What is fact and what is fiction", could we agree to deal in facts or else label fiction as such?
----> Geographic quote up above.
Ok, I might have exaggerated a bit by saying 60%, but then again I was being facetious.
Is 'navigator' a moderator or an administrator? In the beginning I created a thread to discuss fictitious or realistic ideas that would come out of nanotechnology. I was not intending to get sucked into the global warming debate. Hell, as I stated above I only put that idea out there to help move the thread along. Come up with a new idea that you think is more realistic and we'll have a gay Ol' time discussing it instead.
Edited by bobscrachy, 28 June 2009 - 08:04 AM.