Stephen Hawking on human extinction

Quote from 377OHMS:

Physics degree from USC (ranked #11).

You are an idiot.

Next.

So tell me. Did you learn what the term :"greenhouse gas" means while taking your physics degree?

Do you know CO2 levels are skyrocketing and at levels not seen in millions of years?

Knowing these two things can you tell me how the temperature on earth should NOT rise?

No, I'm not an idiot. People who fall back onto such name-calling usually have nothing and are starting to feel defensive.
 
Quote from pspr:

Do you know that CO2 is a trace gas in the atmosphere and it has been shown to be a result of natural warming not a precursor?

We have been in an interglacial warm period which is near if not at the end of it's cycle in geologic terms.

The extra CO2 has been proven to be from combustion of fossil fuels through isotope analysis.
 
I see you have your GW talking points down. Unfortunately, the facts don't bear out the GW proponents conclusions. You didn't take the time to read the data at the link I provided, did you?

BTW, we are in the time frame for a new ice age. It may be hundreds of years away or may be happening now. No one knows until it does. Just as a large meteor strike or a super volcano eruption could happen any time. However, of the bunch, the ice age senario is much, much more likely to happen in the very near future.

You are also wrong about the effects the sun has. The last few sunspot cycles were mysteriously odd and the sun supplies nearly ALL energy to our planet. The sun has had periods of lesser energy output. That is what caused the ice ages (which make up the largest periods history of on earth) and the Maunder Minimum a few hundred years ago. It also caused the Medieval warm period.

Your knowledge is biased and has be tainted by liberal instructors, no doubt.

BTW you are confusing the Methl hydrate term with Methane clathrate which is the frozen methane on the ocean floor.

Quote from futurecurrents:

The hockey stick graph is valid, no matter how many years you add on. This was just recently proven with a re-examination of the data, ironically funded by the Koch bros. Of course we won't hear this on Fox. Temps and CO2 have skyrocketed over the last two hundred years. The CO2 is man-made, proven through isotope analysis. Malkovitch cycles or will eventually lead to a new ice age but that is hundreds of thousands of years in the future. Usually, rational people want to look at closer time frames.

Changes in ocean currents may occur that may lead to cooling of certain areas of the globe. These ocean current changes would be caused by global warming. This is one minor theory that has some credibility but changes nothing for the world as a whole.

Sunspots, while being a favorite fall-back for the deniers are simply not powerful enough or lengthy enough in duration to have a long term effect. Since they occur in 11 year cycles their influence is easily determined.
 
Quote from Lucrum:

MSNBC?

I can see that.

Unlike yourself, I get my (new) science from science periodicals and unbiased news sources. I do not, and will not ever watch either MSNBC or Faux News for more than a few minutes. Scientists don't like bias.
 
The "Hockey Stick" chart is fabricated from several segments of data that have been "normalized" by unaccepted methods to achieve a continuous and monotonically increasing curve. It is bogus.

Futurecurrent's education qualifies him to work at a recycling center


Phhht!
 
It's really pretty simple. You can believe the brain-dead, science ignorant, denialist chatter echoing among the corporate (read fossil-fuel interests) bought media sources like Fox and right wing blogs or you can believe the scientists. I wonder if you're also a creationist. Much of this denier stuff is just pure ideology driven. If you're a good righty you have to deny it. I was a science student way before I had formed any favoritism toward one party.
Quote from pspr:

I see you have your GW talking points down. Unfortunately, the facts don't bear out the GW proponents conclusions. You didn't take the time to read the data at the link I provided, did you?

BTW, we are in the time frame for a new ice age. It may be hundreds of years away or may be happening now. No one knows until it does. Just as a large meteor strike or a super volcano eruption could happen any time. However, of the bunch, the ice age senario is much, much more likely to happen in the very near future.

You are also wrong about the effects the sun has. The last few sunspot cycles were mysteriously odd and the sun supplies nearly ALL energy to our planet. The sun has had periods of lesser energy output. That is what caused the ice ages (which make up the largest periods history of on earth) and the Maunder Minimum a few hundred years ago. It also caused the Medieval warm period.

Your knowledge is biased and has be tainted by liberal instructors, no doubt.
 
Quote from futurecurrents:

The extra CO2 has been proven to be from combustion of fossil fuels through isotope analysis.
As I've pointed out, this is irrelevant. It isn't the cause of any warming. I urge you to read the PDF file I suggested a few posts back. You haven't been listening.
 
Quote from futurecurrents:

... I'm not an idiot. People who fall back onto such name-calling usually have nothing and are starting to feel defensive.

Quote from futurecurrents:
01-09-12 12:27 PM
Given the abject stupidity displayed here it makes me wonder.

Quote from futurecurrents:
01-08-12 10:56 PM
...brain-dead right...
You rabid righties ...

Quote from futurecurrents:
01-08-12 05:18 PM
...game of whack-a-mole with these idiots... the rabid righty ...drooling readers...

Quote from futurecurrents:
01-07-12 11:29 PM
... foaming at the mouth rabid righty...

Quote from futurecurrents:
01-07-12 11:09 PM
No I don't read stuff from wacko right-wing-paranoia websites.

Quote from futurecurrents:
01-05-12 08:52 PM
...you are an anti-intellectual...

Quote from futurecurrents:
01-05-12 07:08 PM
... ignorant, right-wing, flag waving morons who think America can do no wrong.

Quote from futurecurrents:
01-02-12 07:03 PM
Then you are a dick-head. An ignorant dickhead. You should try getting a clue. And no, I'm not Jewish. No, the problem with the country is morons like you. Ron Paul supporters must be cringing at your idiotic bigotted statement.
 
Quote from futurecurrents:

Unlike yourself, I get my (new) science from science periodicals and unbiased news sources. I do not, and will not ever watch either MSNBC or Faux News for more than a few minutes. Scientists don't like bias.

Hey that's about as long as I'll watch FOX news as well. Does that mean I'm a smart guy too?
 
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