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Except that these trends have been going on for longer than global warming would account for. Sheesh, yes global warming is playing a part in it, but this is also a natural part of the weather cycle on Earth. During the age of the dinosaurs, Earth was LITTERALLY a tropical paradise everywhere. And when I say everywhere, I MEAN everywhere. Antartica used to have all sorts of flora an fauna on it and look at it now! This "recent" trend towards warmer climate, though accelerated by Global Warming, would've happened regardless.

Yeah, but Antarctica was alot further north then it is now. If it goes all tropical soon in its current placement......

Water World anyone?

Good movie, eveyone should rent it.

At the time of the dinosaurs, Antartica was a lot further south, so it could support a tropical environment. As it drifted north, it lost this environment to the cold and turned into the Antartica we know today.

Actually, global warming has been going on for a long time, BUT we have considerably speeded up the process and increased the greenhouse effect as well. It all started at the beginning of civilization in the Middle East, with the start of farming. Especially rice patties, as they release large amount of methane when they decompose. Thats why a lot of the greenhouse effect can be attibuted to China today, but it is the factories increasing the amounts of greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, methan, and chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's), that have made a lasting effect on the environment.

With the climate forcing increasing at .5 watts per year, we are in for some trouble. Climate forcing has always been around, but it has gotten considerably worse lately.

Most people used to think that the greenhouse effect and global warming was attributed to the Industrial Revolution, but it was actually attributed with the start of farming, as I have mentioned before. Of course, these are the kinds of people that thought global warming and the greenhouse effect are the same thing.

The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)has done a study on climate, yet they are not really doing much to stop the trend that is occuring. We, the human race, care too much about our power now than the future of ourselves.

I had to do an essay on this very subject and I theorized about electrical energy and giving up on bad oil plants and nuclear energy, as they are damaging the environment. The problem is that this will make us lose a lot of our energy in electrical and other power resources that we have today and our technology will be sent back a couple decades. The electrical power that we start upon will get to the point that we are at now in a couple hundred years, but it seems people don't want to wait that long.


I do know what I am talking about here, as our Superquiz topic this year is climateology and the overall topic is China. All these facts are correct and have been created by the greatest scientists on the planet today.

The truth is, if we don't give up our selfish demand for power, we will doom ourselves and our end is much nearer than most think. The approximate 50 years that I mentioned.

If you don't know what Academic Decathlon is or want to see a little more about this year's Superquiz topic, go here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Decathlon

(Oh and we will beat State this year! If we do, then theres a good chance that we, I mean Texas, can get first place in Nationals. California and New York are our greatest competition, though Arizona and Illinois have been steadily improving for the past few years.)

Are there any noobs around, guys? My friend would like to... meet them...

.:.everyone is hardpressed not to notice the black scabbard upon my back, the pommel which sticks out over my shoulder irradiates a vile violet colour from the black gem that rests under the handle. Another gem, same effect, rests in the hilt, riding slightly into the blade.:.

He thinks they are... interesting...

-_- Oh for the love of all that's good and holy. Lord, preserve me.

For one thing, Antartica is as south as south can get. You can't GO any more south, which means that the only way to go is North. Therefore, since is had to drift there in the first place, it had to be farther NORTH than it is now, not farther SOUTH.

For another, though Wikipedia can and is changed very often, there are quality control measures to ensure that fraudulent information is not posted, or is at least not posted for very long.

Not only that, but it WASN'T it drifting South that made it change climate so drastically. Even during the era of the Dionsaurs (Mesozoic? Something to that effect) it got cold for part of the year, enough to freeze things over and for the sun to set for days at a time. So, even though it wasn't QUITE as far south as it is now, it was close enough for the sun to set for more than the length of a normal night. And you have to be pretty far south for it to do that.

Also, if you're going to say that the climate is increasing in wattage, please give something that you're trying to measure. Are you trying to measure heat, electricity, something else? Yeah, giving us that sort of information would help A LOT.

So, the world's gonna end in fifty years, is it? Show me proof. You stating it means absolutely nothing unless you back it up with proof. Not only that, but if we're so bad the environment and we're gonna kill ourselves in a half century, why the hell hasn't anyone done anything about it, hmm?

I try to be reasonable, but when you just pop in out of nowhere and start saying all this stuff with only a user-changed website to back you up, not to mention mixing up North and South, I'm gonna butt head with you.

So what you're saying is we don't have to worry about zombie dinosaurs.

I'm getting pissed that my insane rantings are actually get noticed and other people are getting blamed for them. I am the only one talking about Zombie Dionsaurs, me, singular, not people, just a person. I don't want other people getting yelled at for my stupdity.

I'm just saying... The conversation is just incredibly... Blah. The world is mesed up, yes, we know this. Globabl warming is probably coming as well. That's life! Whats going to happen is whats going to happen. Focus on today... Or something along those lines.

Rawr.