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Island-scale study reveals climate-change effects

A large-scale experiment with ants, lizards and seaweed on a dozen Caribbean islands shows that predicting the effects of environmental change on complex natural ecosystems requires a large laboratory.

Read full article here... (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110131092153.htm)

hmmm, what to say about global climate change.
I guess in all honesty I dont know the latest ground breaking science behind it all, but to my layperson ears, I agree that there is climate changes, I however like to take the scope of things into consideration. Meaning, that in the history of the Earth, taking chaos theory into consideration, which at this point is our best understanding of climate, at each and every epoch of time there has been changes. No matter how you divide or decide what epoch is which, even when you divide those epochs into smaller epochs there are changes. In the 70's there was a mass scare of Global Cooling, and only 30 years later there are people who are afraid of Global Warming. I think we should decide carefully the things we do to our Mother Earth, but I have a hard time thinking that "We" are the sole cause of anything Our Mother Earth does.
I totally support experimentation, because I believe in 'The Scientific Method' and hope that studies that make testable hypothesis take the forefront in what the media decides to show the public. I wish more people, including myself, read more of the scientific data itself, as opposed to hearing what the TV tells me, but I don't and a lot of people don't. Which is why I think a lot of strange things get spread. Which is why I wish more people were interested in science as opposed to the type of scare media we are inundated with.

I agree. I think the global warming stuff is overblown and more scientists are backing off the global warming thing.

Dan

One thing that is fact is that the earth's climate does change and has over the millions of years. It's an active planet, nothing stays the same forever...

True. What we are experiencing has happened before and has been much worse.

Dan

Dnag weathermen can't predict what is going to happen next week correctly, and they're going to say what's going to happen in a hundred years?

Dnag weathermen can't predict what is going to happen next week correctly, and they're going to say what's going to happen in a hundred years?

LOL @ Sara. They won't be around a hundred years from now to have to worry about being wrong :lmao:

Dnag weathermen can't predict what is going to happen next week correctly, and they're going to say what's going to happen in a hundred years?

Weather men just read what the computer model computes for what the weather will be.... and we all know how reliable computerized projections are!

Weather men just read what the computer model computes for what the weather will be.... and we all know how reliable computerized projections are!

Yes, but keep in mind that the weather report today about YESTERDAY'S weather is usually correct.:lmao:

Yes, but keep in mind that the weather report today about YESTERDAY'S weather is usually correct.:lmao:

Only if they listened to everyone yelling at them on their way home, lol!

Yes, but keep in mind that the weather report today about YESTERDAY'S weather is usually correct.:lmao:

Today's report about what you already know is brought to you by warm and fuzzy.... :lmao:

The earth goes from a circular to an elliptical and back to circular orbit around the sun every 150,000 years. The earth also wobbles on it's axis. I never hear any of these things when they talk about global warming. There was a volcano erupting in Alaska last year I believe, I heard that it was spewing more green house gases in one day than is produced by New York city in a year. How can we be affecting the climate the way they say we are?

Remember in the 90's the big deal was the ozone layer and the hole over Antartica? They figured out that that's a normal process of the ozone layer. Scientists need a crusade so they can get their grants. I used to truely believe what scientists said, but since the whole Rodda thing, not so much anymore.