Global Warming...

I am not disagreeing but I said not to put all our resources and efforts into trying to completely reverse the onset of GW. As you say, we cannot simply ignore trying to take remedial steps but we do need to consider and take action to help regions that will become uninhabitable sooner rather than later (plan A and B) . Nature does not give a sh*t about humans -
that is in our hands. If we do ultimately become extinct taking most of the planets flora and fauna with us Earth will continue to spin and will recover as new life forms evolve from any hardy flora and fauna adapt to the new conditions.
In a nutshell it is not about any desire to save the planet Earth but more ourselves and the lifeforms we currently share our planet with.

 

It’s not that cold..

 

I'm frozen. So cold my knob has shrivelled up.

 

Boo climate change denier, anti vaxxer, transphobe Tory etc etc. admin ban him

 

Aye that’s my excuse n’all. Global warming..

 

I’m in Montrose atm it’s a freezing cold wind here with a bit of snow blowing through.
Global warming my arse.

 

Remember it well. Think we lost 1-0 too.....

 

Yes we did. Promotion would have been guaranteed if we'd won. All for the better because 21,000 turned up next match at home to Rotherham to see us promoted.

 

I bought a camcorder in the early 90s and one of the first times I used it was to film it snowing in our garden - in June.

Global warming refers to the average temperature of the biosphere - the part of the planet where the vast majority of life is located, ie the surface, the seas and the lower atmosphere. Bearing in mind that the planet receives the same heat from the sun every second of every day of every year it radiates away roughly the same amount of heat at the same time. However, as concentrations of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide have risen due to human activity like burning fossil fuels there has been an imbalance between the heat received from the sun and that radiated away and this is causing the rise in temperature. One major result is a more energetic biosphere, both sea and atmosphere becoming more turbulent and producing extreme weather events on an increasing frequency. It will only get worse if we don't act now to stop burning oil, gas and coal.

 

Watford April 2008 on our way to Wembley

 

Not disputing scientists do know 'stuff'! Nevertheless it is not that many years ago that some were stating that a huge hole in the ozone layer that had appeared 'was irreversible' (or perhaps the media were sensationalising and misquoting).
The implication however, was that we would all die from skin cancer that would result from unfiltered sunlight!! Not unsurprisingly (given how much ozone a lightening storm generates and how many are concurrent at any time on the planet), the hole repaired itself.
The demise of human activity would result in vegetation, which actually absorbs CO2 and converts it to O2, re inhabiting vast swathes of former now abandoned urban areas. Reforestation would occur and the Earth would recover. Again, we would not be around to see it but, like I posted previously, all this it is not about saving planet Earth but self preservation we are talking about.
My point, again, is that if conditions are changing and we are merely deferring that change, for future generations, we should focus more on mitigation... i.e. mass mobility and relocation plans , drought resistant crops , reservoirs, etc whilst we continue to reduce CO2 emissions . At the moment we seem to be only looking at the latter
The timeline indicated in a documentary that showed if humans suddenly disappeared of how long before every single trace that we ever existed was obliterated was an eye-opener and a testament, IMO, to man's arrogance that we have control or any real influence over nature in the long term. That is not cynicism it is being pargmatic.

 

If we left things to nature would Doncaster be a coastal town?

 

We stopped globally using CFCs, and the reduced emissions into the atmosphere allowed the hole to recover.

Incidentally, CFCs and leaded petrol were both invented by the same person - who is responsible for more pollution and deaths as a result than any other person ever - Thomas Midgley Jr. After contracting polio in 1940, his contraption to help him out of bed malfunctioned and strangled him in 1944.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr).