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GLOBAL WARMING

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GURT
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do you think that global warming is effecting skiing.
Jan 5 2006 9:43PM
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tay03usa
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its effecting our winters for sho. here in mn the land of ice and snow we havent seen a good winter in like 4-5 years
Jan 5 2006 9:48PM
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AndrewZ
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Really i think that global worming is pretty much a huge load of BS. The other day i was reading a garfield book from 1989 where they were talking about it and its been about 17 yrs since then and there hasnt been a huge difference in anything
Jan 5 2006 9:49PM
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BLKOUT
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huge outa control storms, the most hurricanes in one season ever recorded, widespread droughts, flooding, grassfires, melting glaciers and icefields, and that's just in our area. No, there's no global warming going on.
Jan 5 2006 9:53PM
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dbag37
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^kids got a point, i mean when was the last time we had a named tropical system at the end of december besides this year?
Jan 5 2006 10:02PM
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johanblaze
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as long as mammoth keeps ketting insane dumping i have nothing to complain about.
Jan 5 2006 10:03PM
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AndrewZ
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"The scientific opinion on climate change, as expressed by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and explicitly endorsed by the national science academies of the G8 nations, is that the average global temperature has risen 0.6 ± 0.2 °C since the late 19th century"

I just got that from Wikipedia so I guess Global Warming is happening a little but .6°C isnt a heck of a lot so I vote that we just wait a few hundred years or so and see what happens. Not that I'm saying we shouldn't stop polluting, we should still try to keep the enviornment clean.
Jan 5 2006 10:03PM
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danedegruyter
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might just be me but last year in thunder bay it was like -30 around now and its like 0 this year.. dont tell me nothings happeneing
Jan 5 2006 10:08PM
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BLKOUT
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The hole in the ozone is the biggest it's ever been and growing, the polar ice cap is the smallest it's ever been and shrinking at a record rate. It's too late to stop global warming. The damage is done, all we can do is try and slow it down. They say in about a hundred years there may be no more snow anywhere. I hope they're wrong.
Jan 5 2006 10:09PM
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AndrewZ
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yea, i know we're having a really warm winter in MI too, but global warming isn't a 30 degree in one year thing, its like ten degrees over 100 years. if you look at tempetures historicly they rise and fall and its to soon to tell whether tis is gonna be an ongoing trend or if its going to get colder again
Jan 5 2006 10:11PM
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watchmefall15
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political bastards
Jan 5 2006 10:14PM
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AndrewZ
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OK after about 30 minuites of research i pretty much stick to my origional statement, while the hole in the ozone layer is getting bigger the earths tempeture is rising at a rate of less then .1 degrees celcius per ten years. And most of the graphs that show huge temeture changes are from big cities that are just warmer because they are getting bigger as our population grows...and that pretty much covers it, and while its not something to forget about its not making a huge difference in our winters now, the differences now are just being caused by relitivly normal tempeture variations
Jan 5 2006 10:24PM
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steezerampage
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This may sound dumb, but I heard global warming will turn into global cooling when the ice caps hit a certain rate of melting and cool down the entire planet
Jan 5 2006 10:31PM
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Switchstyle
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by the time it matters I hope to be realllllly old and near dead
Jan 5 2006 10:32PM
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user098123
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I'm sick of these stupid Global Warming threads. I wrote up a huge reply like last year that I'm too lazy to find. But, it isn't doing anything! This is the normal cycle of the earth, the temperature is barely increasing (like 2°C over the last 100 years). Its nothing to worry about and it isn't affecting skiing.
Jan 5 2006 10:35PM
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BLKOUT
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I 'd suggest not having kids
Jan 5 2006 10:36PM
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hoodratz47
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yeah shit happens,,, its still snowing...
Jan 5 2006 10:39PM
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Liam.
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global warming isnt noticable at all...its bull shit how everyone is saying how ts affecting...i garentee next winter it willl be hella cold...if u remeber 2 years ago in boston MA we had like no snow and this year we got a strom the dropeed about a foot of snow....
Jan 5 2006 10:56PM
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b_dash_rian
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pssst.... we have been coming out of an ice age for thousands of years, what a few more????


also, there was a show on discovery a while ago that said the global warming can actually cause really bad, cold, snowy winters, so if its going to affect skiing, it will not be that negative for us
Jan 5 2006 11:03PM
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grubix2
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I love the thought process of some people. Just because it's happening at a slow rate, and not affecting you right now doesn't mean it's not a problem. Even if it doesn't affect you at all during your entire life, don't you think we have an obligation to preserve the world? So maybe your great grand children don't have to deal with it? Everyone is always concerned about Now. People don't want to look into the future to make life better off down the road. How would you like it if the population fucked up the world 500 years ago, and you have to put up with it?
Jan 5 2006 11:07PM
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Liam.
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i would say sucks for them since they didnt have tolilets...and ill be dead so o well
Jan 5 2006 11:10PM
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ZavierV
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In Vancouver, its the second year in a row where all our local mountains are closed cus of the gayness of the weather.
Jan 5 2006 11:13PM
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grubix2
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thanks for providing an example of the people I'm talking about.
Jan 5 2006 11:13PM
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Liam.
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no problem
Jan 5 2006 11:14PM
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whattheshit
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global cooling.
Jan 5 2006 11:16PM
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Liam.
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blobal aids is a topic we need to relize and deal with that...am i right?
Jan 5 2006 11:17PM
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Silence
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Australia is completely fucked with global warming..we dont get shit for snow anyway and now its just getting worse..
Jan 6 2006 12:53AM
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nickmcnutt
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you and the thread creator have identical icons
Jan 6 2006 12:55AM
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NWFlow
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I read that its affecting global weather patterns more than its affecting actual temperature changes. And its really difficult to discern between "normal" climate cycles and human caused warming, since humans have been impacting the climate for such a short time. The new TIME has an article saying Europe might see a significant cooling trend. Brush up on your German.
Jan 6 2006 1:17AM
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JesseWest
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its hittin SE ak so bad. psh
Jan 6 2006 1:27AM
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Smidt
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r u and american? cuz u sure sound like one not thinking anything is gunna happen to the earth with all the shit were putting into the air but what ever it "wont" effect us cuz its not real
Jan 6 2006 1:54AM
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lalalalaura
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Mother nature is pissed, there's not much more to it than that. When you mistreat the earth for as long as we have, and as long as we will, reconciliation will take place in someform or another.
Jan 6 2006 2:00AM
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KeegLove
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haha i couldnt agree more.
Jan 6 2006 2:03AM
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E-ZRider
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Global warming is bullshit, its just gonna get colder now...
Jan 6 2006 2:20AM
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eheath
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Yeah dude fucking worrrrddddddd
Jan 6 2006 2:21AM
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alev
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in my town (not near the mountains) the harbor froze last year, which means weeks of single degree weather. this year weve had about one day in the single digits
Jan 6 2006 6:59AM
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pat-rickdaigle
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not here, last year we got tons of snow and this year we've had a 39 inch storm on top of an 8 inch base and we're supposed to get another 5 inches today.
Jan 6 2006 7:16AM
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A@ron
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global warming is effecting more than just skiing
Jan 6 2006 10:00AM
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Collgan
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I know someone who is from way the hell up north. Like the only way to get to her town is by plane or boat. Ne way she says that it used to be that the boats could only get to her town for about 3-4 months because pack ice was really dangerous and super thick so if they needed anything big (like sofa) they had to wait 7 months till the boats could come again. Now the boats can make trips to her town for 6months of the year. which is a huge difference. also the rivers around her in the past would melt in may now they are melting in the end of march. Her whole band's way of life is changing because of the climate.

So yes I belive that global warming is true and will affect skiing greatly. Here in the east we usually have hgot a good (by easten standards) dumping of snow by now that would stay all year round. we have nothing. last week it was like +5 degreess celcius and normal it would be like -10 or so.

I have seen a big change in my lifetime.



Yea people talk about how it is a natural cycle. but we have been overloading the earth with extra carbon emmissions that never happened in the past. Which has to change the weather patterns. We are also cutting down forests at a huge rate which is minnimizing the number of carbon sinks that allow the earth to regulate itself by absorbing natural carbon emmssions let alone the extra stuff by us.


and yes it is true that global warming will have a cooling affect in the future. Because if all of the ice caps melt the fresh water/cold water would disrupt the ocean conveyer belt. Now the ocean conveyer belt is like a cycle that brings the warm ocean water north where it cools and then sinks flows down south where it heats up rises and flows north. this is the reason why england can be farther north then parts of canada and the USA and not get any snow. If this convyer belt is stoped by the extra water enterig it the top half of the earth would cool because there is no warm water coming north and realeasing heat. Eventually england would cool and have snow and we would potentially enter into a mini ice age.

The day after tommorrow is a good movie to show this example but it would never happen like that. It will take a couple of hundred of years for this all to come to an end. But if you think of how big our population would be at that time and how many billions of people would be affected you have to think about what we could do to stop this from happening.


The earth will always try to regulate itself. That is why we have the climate cycles. It gets too hot it cools it cools too much it heats up. We fuck with this by warming it up too much then it is used too and we all get scrwed along with our eventul decendants.
Jan 6 2006 10:22AM
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Collgan
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thats really long. if you don't want to read it. Long story short if we continue doing what we are doing we are fucked.
Jan 6 2006 10:23AM
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CooksCorner
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dood, global warming would cause and ice age. seriously. everyone drive big cars!!!
Jan 6 2006 11:21AM
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HAM*
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no^
Jan 6 2006 11:35AM
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-_-Johnny-_-
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the hole in the ozone layer is actually shrinking.. but Global warming still sucks
Jan 6 2006 12:26PM
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-_-Johnny-_-
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research shows that human activity stopped a new ice age in the 12th century..
Jan 6 2006 12:29PM
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racerstyle
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theres no such thing as global warming. its the liberal media exagerating minor events to creat news storys and also they get paid by environmental groups to run storys. go read STATE OF FEAR, by Micheal Chricton. that books the shit
Jan 6 2006 12:34PM
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racerstyle
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its actually speculated that global warming is evident because of a tenth of degree rise. this is since the mid 1800's when people actually measured the temperature and also those measurments werent that acurate.

also those measurements are averaged with poor third world countries where tempaerature measurements are prettty pathetic regarding accuracy
Jan 6 2006 12:41PM
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Mattman
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in 5 years it won't matter at all
Jan 6 2006 12:42PM
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stylishskier
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global warming does have an effect on the winters but I don't buy completely into the fact that we are solely destroying our planet with pollution, I think its half evolution half us, and evolution=what we do today
Jan 6 2006 12:46PM
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ksski
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i think global warming is a load of crock.
Jan 6 2006 12:57PM
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AndrewZ
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pretty much global warming is probably happening and we should try to control our greenhoue gas emissions but its not to the extent that it will make a difference in skiing weather for a few hundred years, take ten minuites do some research, look at the graphs that make it look all bad but then actually look at the numbers not just the shape of the line and you will see that the earth hasnt warmed much more then one degree celcius in the past 150 years or so.
Jan 6 2006 1:36PM
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Collgan
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it would but you would never see it in your lifetime
Jan 6 2006 1:36PM
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