Is Global Warming the new Y2K issue?
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Unfortunately, unlike Y2K Global Warming is a real problem.
The bad news is that we would have to cut carbon dioxide emissions world wide to less than 10% of what they are today.
The cut backs would be draconian.
More recycling will not do it
More hybrid cars will not do it.
Turning out the lights and unplugging electric appliances will not do it.
Fortunately we can mitigate the effects of Global Warming.
The sea levels will rise. Most of the areas threatened by flooding can be protected by dike systems similar to those in Holland.
we must help the poor countries with dike systems and help relocate the populations in those areas that cannot be protected.
Hurricanes will be stronger and more frequent.
We must help the poor countries upgrade their disaster preparedness.
Droughts will impact many areas. We must help with supplemental water supplies and desalination plants.
The good news is that we can mitigate the effects of Global Warming even though we cannot prevent Global Warming.
Yes
It has been long noticed but the fact that the awareness only begin in y2k.makes it a y2k issue.
No.
Science has proved global warming, as much as any science is proven.
Forget the political stuff and the "logical" arguments. Just look at the numbers and the science.
Most of the arguments can be answered simply by this. Yes, there have been natural climate changes before, mostly due to the Sun. But the data clearly shows that, starting about 40 years ago, man's contribution overwhelmed the natural forces that controlled climate before.
This is a nice picture, includes the effect of the Sun, and there are many more scientific studies showing the same thing.
http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/ima...
None of the other explanations works nearly as well. The scientific equations don't work for them. The numbers come out wrong. Most questions are answered here:
http://environment.newscientist.com/chan...
Good general information on global warming. with data and pictures:
http://profend.com/global-warming/...
Y2K was seven years ago. It stands for year 2 thousand.
It's the new, Take the people's minds off of real issues like corrupt politics.
And I'm talking about both sides.
At least the Y2K hysteria ended when we lived to see the year 2000.
The Global Cooling hysteria stopped in the 80's when the planet started a warming trend.
Then the hole in the ozone that healed itself, but no one remembers that.
Acid rain was pretty scary. The world was supposed to end in the 60's due to overpopulation and lack of food and fresh water.
Oh, and what ever happened to the Bird Flu ? They even made a movie about that one.
Now we got this Global Warming nonsense and it's planned to last 50 years or more, depending on how long they can fool the ignorant masses.
Y2K was a serious issue at the time, but its solution was relatively simple, a few lines of code. The urgency was due to the short deadline to fix it. The problem was only discovered a short time before the deadline. With so many operating systems and computers in the world it was a monumental task to fix it so quickly.
Global Warming will not be solved with a few lines of computer code so I have to say the comparison is a stretch at best.
I wish.
Then at least we'd be able to see the light at the end of this tunnel of nonsense.
Killer Bees. I forgot all about the killer bees.
you know, it seems that it is.
I'd say within the year the global warming myth will become a non-story much like the ozone layer hole is now.
Major scientific figures who have converted to skeptics after reviewing new research
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.a...
absolutely! and probably being perpetrated by the same idiots.
As pointed out by grizz, Y2k was a problem, but it had a simple fix. Global warming is a bigger problem, and has a very diffcult fix.
Both have deadlines by which we need to repair the problem, but Y2k was a very fixed deadline while we don't know exactly how soon we have to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions or by how much. We have a rough idea, but it's nowhere near as precise as fixing all the code by midnight on December 31, 1999.
Both have bad reprocussions if no action were taken, but global warming's are far worse. They effect every species on the planet, and humans to a greater degree.
There were a number of Y2k alarmists because they didn't understand the problem. In the case of global warming, the people who don't understand the problem mostly dismiss it as a non-problem, so that's the opposite reaction.
So there are some similarities, but they're pretty different issues.
what are you ? under 20 years old? they didnt even know about y2k untill the 1980's. Global warming has been talked about since the sixties
What is this an expostfacto question? Y2K is gone gone gone.
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