My take on Global Warming (AGW)

NO, i said you were unable to Refute my statements!

notice the difference?

what were the statements you mentioned if not the original one with the cartoon.

Global warming..? It's freezing in SoCal lately. I've taken to wearing a jacket in the daytime recently.

Global warming..? It's freezing in SoCal lately. I've taken to wearing a jacket in the daytime recently.

Rug - do you believe in the "Ice Ball" theory..? It's claim is that the sun will burn out in 50 billion years and the Earth will become this giant floating ice ball in the universe. Whatever we do here, now, doesn't really matter in the grand scheme.

Rug - do you believe in the "Ice Ball" theory..? It's claim is that the sun will burn out in 50 billion years and the Earth will become this giant floating ice ball in the universe. Whatever we do here, now, doesn't really matter in the grand scheme.

Fifty billion? That's a little far.

The sun's gonna go around four or five billion years from now.

I would hope that mankind, or whatever we become, will have established the technology required to handle such a situation in five billion years. If we haven't, then we as a species have failed.

Fifty billion? That's a little far.

The sun's gonna go around four or five billion years from now.

I would hope that mankind, or whatever we become, will have established the technology required to handle such a situation in five billion years. If we haven't, then we as a species have failed.

more than likely our species won't even last 1 billion years, evolution will have taken it's toll by then.

What makes you think we'll even be a distant memory? We've had 4.6 billion years and every form of life (or I should probably say dominant species,) has become totally extinct without anything left in a matter of tens or hundreds of millions of years. Even with the rapid developement of humans, I doubt if we could last that long in any form at all by scientific standards. If we're still alive then, who knows what could happen, if you don't presume that the current trend of advancement continues. We might be on other planets by then, for all we know.

If we are living in other star systems, great... we succeed. Our sun could nova and we would survive.

As for what we will be, by scientific evolutionary standards, who knows. For now, there's no real driving force behind any radical changes. We're fine as we sit. No natural predators, death by disease has dropped sharply. Where's the need for evolutionary change? Granted, over a four billion year stretch, there's no telling what could happen. But for now, we're not gonna change... much.

I doubt we'll even survive long enough to experience the death of the sun. Compared to the age of the earth humans are the last 2 seconds of the 'earthly clock', I can't say i even know of one animal species that has survived more than 2 million years nontheless a couple billion years.

Cocelanth
Horseshoe Crab
Crayfish

We evolved sentience, and that's what will keep us around a bit longer.

That sounds like wishful thinking. Genetically speaking, we are killing ourselves.