wassworth (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Thank God and Englishman finally cleared this up. We've been having terrorist attacks done for a hundred years. Then the US gets attacked and flips their shit and declares a war on terror and starts attacking innocent countries in the middle east. If it was a true war on terror there would be more logic in invading northern Ireland and the Basques. Oh wait, they don't have oil. Fucking yanks.

sinan32121 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Well given our continuous exponential growth, and the depletion of more than half the world's oil supply, I'm sure that within 50 years or so, the oil wells will dry up (if oil consumption keeps growing exponentially as it has for the last couple hundred years). Whether or not that is before climate change becomes irreversible is a coin toss.

nobster3 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

You guys dream on .. of course man has impact the environment. What with our fantastic exponential growth over the years, our consumption and subsequent depletion of resources - it's only a matter of time before we all run out ! Mass Starvation etc,etc

Rey118 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Yeah! Everyone knows that it is caused by HAARP in alaska!! Bush told Palin to make catrina! No in all seriousness, look up global dimming. It has actually caused some serious havok on a lot of research that's been done on global warming. I have not read up on what you posted, but since you seem so interested I thought I might give you a car to chase.

rationalCrash (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

There is NO evidence that hurricane frequency or strength is caused by global warming. look up Dr. Christopher Landsea, a NOAA scientist who has contributed to the IPCC.

dojinho (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I read some comments below but I think an important issue has been overlooked: the declaration that "these islamists getting WMDs should be our first priority!" This is hilarious coming from a guy who just said that people should go on with their lives and not be scared of a fictitious enemy! After the nasty russians and the evil drug lords, now it's the mad Islamists? Apparently America needs to be at war at all times to keep the corporate giants happy. It pays to keep people living in fear!

maven0101 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Temperature, no. Nature, yes...within limits. Things have gone too far in some instances for humans to reverse and nature has to repair on nature's terms.

maven0101 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

#2 - More harm is done to wildlife by throwing out plastic from six-packs without shredding it first. It ends up in lakes, rivers and oceans, strangling birds and sealife. Things along those lines clearly damage aquatic life and effect the water system. Kaeles: can you pls. post data about 'megafauna' and its place in the ecosystem?

maven0101 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I think there's some truth to human enviornmental impact HOWEVER, NOT global warming. If the crisis were so severe, animal rights groups would have relocated wildlife at the first sign of the "irreversible loss of the polar ice layer". That they didn't says there is a natural loss of ice yet not the devasting loss. I'm not convinced animal rights groups would not be doing their jobs. There must be more than enough natural ice that hasn't shifted or its cause is oil drilling.

Kaeles (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

o.O You are saying we haven't affected the ecosystem, and yet we managed to wipe out all the megafauna in the southwest pacific while we were still using clubs and spears... YES, we have an impact on the environment.