The day after tomorrow?

[Silk]

Freaky weather ahoy!

Massive Cyclone about to hit Queensland:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12342031
"Queensland residents have been told it is now too late to escape as the most dangerous storm ever predicted to hit the state makes its approach."

1/3rd of USA being hit by severe snowstorms:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12339494
"Nearly 27,000 homes in Texas and 14,000 in Ohio were without power, and storm alerts were issued in 19 states. "

Do you think this is random or brought upon us by our neglect/abuse of the planet and it's natural rescources aka Global Warming?

 

[thatbloke]

OH GOD WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIEEEEEEEEEEE

...

To be honest, storms this size do gather but are quite rare, it's just coincidental that a large number of such storms seem to be affecting multiple areas at once.

 

[Panda with issues...]

Freaky weather ahoy!

Massive Cyclone about to hit Queensland:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12342031
"Queensland residents have been told it is now too late to escape as the most dangerous storm ever predicted to hit the state makes its approach."

1/3rd of USA being hit by severe snowstorms:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12339494
"Nearly 27,000 homes in Texas and 14,000 in Ohio were without power, and storm alerts were issued in 19 states. "

Do you think this is random or brought upon us by our neglect/abuse of the planet and it's natural rescources aka Global Warming?

Impossible to say.

However I would say that messing about with the climate by releasing around 7 billion metric tons of CO2 a year isn't exactly a safe bet.

 

[Wol]

snow

<snip>

Warming?

Duh. Of course not!

Can we have some snow please. It's boring down here still.

 

[Ronin Storm]

Worth remembering that weather != climate and vice versa. I think that's why they now talk about "climate change" rather than "global warming" to try to make that distinction clearer.

 

[Panda with issues...]

Duh. Of course not!

Can we have some snow please. It's boring down here still.

I actually think this is actually quite a big issue for the climate change researchers to address.

People have very short memories. They need to be able to explain in a way that everyone can understand, why in some regions, on occasion, it is very cold compared to those same regions on those same occasions in the near past, while the earth, as a whole is getting warmer.

 

[BiG D]

Major snowstorms in north america?! Oh dear god no! The only other time this has happened is EVERY YEAR PRIOR TO THIS ONE. Nothing to see here...

 

[thatbloke]

Major snowstorms in north america?! Oh dear god no! The only other time this has happened is EVERY YEAR PRIOR TO THIS ONE. Nothing to see here...

YES BUT AUSTRALIA IS BEING HIT BY A GIANT CYCLONE AT THE SAME TIME!!!!


CAN'T YOU SEE THE END OF THE WORLD IS COMINNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG



(not)

 

[Silk]

YES BUT AUSTRALIA IS BEING HIT BY A GIANT CYCLONE AT THE SAME TIME!!!!


CAN'T YOU SEE THE END OF THE WORLD IS COMINNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG



(not)

Their worse storm EVER, and after severe floods..

Also let's not forget the riots on Egypt right now!
So much drama everywhere.
It's the end of the world I tell ya!

 

[BiG D]

Severe weather in the american midwest! Violence in the middle east! Australia! Truly the end days.

 

[Tempscire]

Their worse storm EVER, and after severe floods..

Also let's not forget the riots on Egypt right now!
So much drama everywhere.
It's the end of the world I tell ya!

Well Citizens of the world, we've had a good innings. There were times when we got a bit.... high spirited you might say. A small gaffe or two in northern Europe throughout most of the start of the 20th century, plus the odd genocide but otherwise I think we've done very well for ourselves. We've had a bit of luck with all those fossil fuels we've been pumping into the atmosphere too. Who'd have thought that we'd get away without doing any damage to the Earth? I mean, it's the only one we've got, so treating it with anything other than respect would be silly, if not downright suicidal! I'm sure we can go out knowing that we cared for this planet to the best of our ability

Oh wait, that's right. I'm a cynic not an optimist. We're doomed.

 

[[THN]Buffalo_Hunter]

Maybe this is the planet's way of controlling the population - there are too many of us as it is so maybe this is a natural cycle:

Too many people = lots of CO2 = severe weather = DEATH!!!!! = Less people

 

[Wol]

Maybe this is the planet's way of controlling the population - there are too many of us as it is so maybe this is a natural cycle:

Too many people = lots of CO2 = severe weather = DEATH!!!!! = Less people

severe weather, old people can't afford heating in the winter, old people die, less people?

But then theres some external "lets all help the old people with money" thing in it all.

 

[Ronin Storm]

Natural selection doesn't feel so good when you're not picked for the surviving team.

That said, VHEMT. (Though, in theory, that just seems like a way for the liberal intelligensia to wipe themselves out, me included.)

 

[Panda with issues...]

Well Citizens of the world, we've had a good innings. There were times when we got a bit.... high spirited you might say. A small gaffe or two in northern Europe throughout most of the start of the 20th century, plus the odd genocide but otherwise I think we've done very well for ourselves. We've had a bit of luck with all those fossil fuels we've been pumping into the atmosphere too. Who'd have thought that we'd get away without doing any damage to the Earth? I mean, it's the only one we've got, so treating it with anything other than respect would be silly, if not downright suicidal! I'm sure we can go out knowing that we cared for this planet to the best of our ability

Oh wait, that's right. I'm a cynic not an optimist. We're doomed.

It's ok, the environment can take another one for the team...

 

[Zooggy]

Hoy,

Severe weather in the american midwest! Violence in the middle east! Australia! Truly the end days.

Cheers,
J.

 

[Dragon]

Maybe this is the planet's way of controlling the population - there are too many of us as it is so maybe this is a natural cycle:

Too many people = lots of CO2 = severe weather = DEATH!!!!! = Less people

So we conclude: more people = less people ...

 

[Taffy]

Thankfully I live in none of these terrible foreign places...

*wanders off to find some coal to burn wrecklessly*

 

[Xylak]

Proof that Hell exists on Earth

Feel free to panic.

 

[SgtFury]

Thankfully I live in none of these terrible foreign places...

*wanders off to find some coal to burn wrecklessly*

Wales isn't foreign??? really?