# You know, we should chat about global warming **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 21, 2015, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365 "2015-10-21T16:32:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/21 "2015-10-21T23:59:14Z")
I am against global warming in the Summer and global cooling in the Winter. I support global, year-round, Early June in the Midwest. Fuck the polar bears and penguins. Note that I live about 800 feet above current sea level. People downhill, like **canned mayhem** , better start saving their nickels for a down-payment up here because they won’t get one from selling ocean. ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/22 "2015-10-22T00:42:29Z")
If we can get just the right amount of sea level rise, the beachfront here on Sacramento Bay should be quite pleasant. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/23 "2015-10-22T00:49:43Z")
> [@Twoflower](#): > > If we can get just the right amount of sea level rise, the beachfront here on Sacramento Bay should be quite pleasant. Your beachfront will have a three foot thick skin of used condoms and broken syringes. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/24 "2015-10-22T00:54:12Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Your beachfront will have a three foot thick skin of used condoms and broken syringes. What do you attribute the decline in thickness? ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/25 "2015-10-22T01:22:56Z")
If you look at the second Tuesday in February in 1992, and then in February of 1997, the trend line is clearly declining. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/26 "2015-10-22T01:44:09Z")
> [@canned\_mayhem](#): > > I was hoping all the morons who bought in to Al Gore’s super awesome rising seas theory 15 years ago would’ve sold their beach front property and moved the fuck away from me by now but unfortunately that never happened. > > I guess the only people who benefit from that hoax is the assholes who fly their gas guzzling private jets to 100 thousand dollar climate speeches. Trollie, you’re the worst character ever. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/27 "2015-10-22T02:41:57Z")
I know you guys were seriously annoyed, however, I’m just glad that someone (he who won’t be named) moved off of the Fukushima/anti-nuke topic (and let that damned thread finally die) and onto other things. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![canned\_mayhem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/53a042/32.png) [@canned\_mayhem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/canned_mayhem)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/28 "2015-10-22T02:58:45Z")
I still think it’s hilarious how the global doomsday crowd was lamenting about how in 20 years the glaciers would be gone, the polar bears would be extinct, snowfall would cease, and the seas would rise 20 feet. They said that bullshit back in the early 90’s lmao. Lemme guess, it’ll all happen next year right? Right??? lol ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/29 "2015-10-22T03:03:34Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > If you look at the second Tuesday in February in 1992, and then in February of 1997, the trend line is clearly declining. And if you use a sample set of a single measuring station, it’s especially disturbing. PS For future reference, you can fool at least two people (let’s call them 49 and 84, which I might have picked out of the blue) if you use terms like “5 year trend” while linking to the chart, instead of being so specific. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/30 "2015-10-22T03:14:53Z")
> [@canned\_mayhem](#): > > I still think it’s hilarious how the global doomsday crowd was lamenting about how in 20 years the glaciers would be gone, the polar bears would be extinct, snowfall would cease, and the seas would rise 20 feet. > > They said that bullshit back in the early 90’s lmao. > > Lemme guess, it’ll all happen next year right? > > Right??? > > lol You have big stupid shoes to fill, with small stupid feet. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/31 "2015-10-22T03:37:59Z")
> [@canned\_mayhem](#): > > I still think it’s hilarious how the global doomsday crowd was lamenting about how in 20 years the glaciers would be gone, the polar bears would be extinct, snowfall would cease, and the seas would rise 20 feet. > > They said that bullshit back in the early 90’s lmao. > > Lemme guess, it’ll all happen next year right? > Right??? Wrong; generally, and this is based on years of discussions, the sorry points you are using here are based on media speculations or some scientists also misunderstood by the media, or obscure scientists that are also not well respected managing to publish in bad journals. The media is not looking at what the expert climate scientists are actually reporting. [QUOTE] Snow in Britain? In winter? The internet of course is awash with theories about how and why this "unprecedented" event is happening now. I hope you will know me well enough by now to know that the first thing I do when confronted with internet hysteria is, that’s right, tracked the information back to its source most internet sites quote other Internet sites that quote other Internet sites it’s the electronic adult equivalent of schoolyard gossip but when we follow the trail right back we find that all these assertions come from just one source. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/32 "2015-10-22T03:40:12Z")
> [@canned\_mayhem](#): > > I still think it’s hilarious how the global doomsday crowd was lamenting about how in 20 years the glaciers would be gone, the polar bears would be extinct, snowfall would cease, and the seas would rise 20 feet. > > They said that bullshit back in the early 90’s lmao. Ah, the famous “global doomsday crowd”. So stupidly credulous, so irrepressibly hysterical, so conveniently unidentified. Personally, what _I_ still think is hilarious is that time a few years ago when **canned mayhem** was covertly whacking off in the library to full-color images of slaughtered pigs, and the librarian walked over and grabbed the book away from him just at the critical moment while **canned mayhem** panic-spooged all over himself in full view of the horrified and revolted girls’ swim team at the next table. All of which is fully as accurate and well-documented as **canned mayhem** ’s alleged reminiscences of some unnamed “global doomsday crowd” twenty years ago predicting complete disappearance of glaciers within twenty years. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/33 "2015-10-22T03:49:11Z")
Another quote from science writer Peter Hadfield, AKA Potholer54: > [@](#): > > So why hasn’t the climate models showed us that there would be snowing winters? > > Answer: climate models have shown us exactly that. > > Well, it’s hardly surprising that people don’t read the research that predicted the deep chill preferring instead to read fluffy stories about children never knowing the joys of snow. One’s hard the others easy. > > So now the “No Snow” myth joins the other myths attributed to scientists that “they predicted global cooling in the nineteen seventies” and “an ice age” in the nineteen nineties. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/34 "2015-10-22T04:19:23Z")
> [@canned\_mayhem](#): > > I still think it’s hilarious how the global doomsday crowd was lamenting about how in 20 years the glaciers would be gone, the polar bears would be extinct, snowfall would cease, and the seas would rise 20 feet. > > They said that bullshit back in the early 90’s lmao. > > Lemme guess, it’ll all happen next year right? > > Right??? > > lol Sheesh. You’re not even a good troll. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/35 "2015-10-22T11:24:18Z")
> [@canned\_mayhem](#): > > I still think it’s hilarious how the global doomsday crowd was lamenting about how in 20 years the glaciers would be gone, the polar bears would be extinct, snowfall would cease, and the seas would rise 20 feet. > > They said that bullshit back in the early 90’s lmao. > > Lemme guess, it’ll all happen next year right? > > Right??? > > lol I’ll ask again: any chance you’ll ever, you know, actually try to talk to people, or is this empty sloganeering all you’ve got? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/36 "2015-10-22T11:54:16Z")
I want the old global warming thread back! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!! Just kidding!! Hoooo-eeeeee! ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/37 "2015-10-22T12:09:09Z")
I hope we don’t have to wait as long for this troll to be shown the door. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/38 "2015-10-22T12:39:54Z")
So, if I join the Global Doomsday Crowd, do I get a shirt? If it’s just a laminated membership card like the Nattering Nabobs of Narcissism , then I’ll skip it. I’m usually busy on Thursday nights when they have their potlucks anyhow. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/39 "2015-10-22T13:55:11Z")
I’m definitely selling any beachfront properties I own. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/40 "2015-10-22T14:15:43Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I’m definitely selling any beachfront properties I own. I’m buying properties several miles inland and buying big beach umbrellas. Screw those Doomsday Sayers who think global warming will be an economic disaster! There’s money to be made! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365.md?page=3)