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My expectation of the future is that eventually the area on and near the equator will become inhabitable to humans during the summer months(but that is many years in the future) because of the intensity of the heat.
Actually I am sure that it will become just as inhabitable to humans as it is now (depending on how you define inhabitable).
Vlad's source can be "The Princess Bride" (that is his choice, it makes for good comedy); however my sources are somewhat more relevant and factual.
Your sources or, in this case to be more accurate, your source is the same people who can't even accurately tell me if it is going to rain today or not?
Right....
The Princess Bride is much more relevant and factual than your sources. Its truth resonates.
The jig is up. We aren't buying what you're selling.
Yes, Gary. The United Nations is a pressure group. It's suppose to be a pressure group. It pressures the nations of the world to do the right thing, like not starting wars and stuff.
Now they are pressuring us not to destroy the environment! :D
Maybe we can pressure the UN to do the right thing and stop raping women and children which they have been implicated in according to the BBC and numerous other sources in Bosnia, Sudan and the Congo. If the UN were subject to U.S. law its leaders would be doing time under RICO statutes.
Good idea, then you wouldn't have to try quite so hard to ignore the actual facts. But I highly doubt that you will ever do it. For one thing it would please me and I doubt you could ever bring yourself to do that.
...stuff does happen, like always. The difference now is that it happens much more frequently. Gary, call up any insurance company and ask them about this; do not take my word for it.
The claim that stuff happens much more frequently is totally unprovable. Really, Paul, you need to stop trying to prove AGW by using various global weather events. Because you CANNOT PROVE that these weather events are either more frequent or more severe than any time period since the last global warming was known to occur.
As to the insurance companies, they have a vested interest in stating that stuff is happening more frequently. And even their claims only go back a very VERY limited period in time. It's like comparing a microsecond of evidence to a day of geological time.
AGW may be happening, but Paul Beckwith seems to like being Chicken Little. So far the only thing I've seen from him in terms of what we should DO about it is something about carbon nanotubes reaching up into the sky and blowing us further away from the sun....
Oh, well, at least he's stopped boring us with his climate change research exploits. What was that tantalizing bit he wrote about discovering something in sea floor cores that "no one else has ever seen"? No one bit on that one, so I guess he gave up.
Only the rushing is heard...
Onward flies the bird.
It is good to see the snowman (Bonnehomme) back again; in spite of swearing on a stack of Bibles that he was giving up Chesstalk for good. Welcome back!
If only Dr.Weaver would join the discussion on chesstalk and thoroughly refute the deniers claims...as well as showing the various evidence for global warming...they still probably wouldn't listen...
Vlad; chess is boring if you do not know how to play.
Please do not take this the wrong way but it is time for both you (and Bonnehomme) to read "The Idiots Guide to Climate Change"; Elizabeth May is the first author.
I have no interest in educating either of you on this topic; you are both misguided souls.
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