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    SundaySilenceSundaySilence Posts: 534
    Puck78 wrote:
    1. if you know about the 10 years thing, please let me know: as i've written i work on the field, as a researcher, and i've never heard a 10 years estimate.
    Anyway, it is not that because he studied and understands science that he's an environmentalist: in my department the majority of people are not environmetalists...

    Here's another reference to the 10 years thing.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4202649.stm

    Its seems to reference this report, but I couldn't find from the report where they came up with 10 years.

    http://www.americanprogress.org/atf/cf/{E9245FE4-9A2B-43C7-A521-5D6FF2E06E03}/CLIMATECHALLENGE.PDF
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    denverfandenverfan Posts: 218
    He learned to spell Potato and invented the net...he may be better than Bush!
    "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity but they've always worked for me." Gonzo

    'If my fuckin' ex-wife told me to take care of her dog while her and her new boyfriend went to Honolulu, I'd tell her to go fuck herself." -The Dude

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    Pearl Jam and toastPearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    denverfan wrote:
    He learned to spell Potato and invented the net...he may be better than Bush!
    Bush spells it Puhtater. Thank god for speach writers.
    Come on pilgrim you know he loves you..

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    know1know1 Posts: 6,761
    Pearl Jam and toast wrote:
    ask the dinosaurs, she'll just say "okay, fuck it" and start over.

    Is there a problem with that?
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
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    Pearl Jam and toastPearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    know1 wrote:
    Is there a problem with that?
    We die?
    Come on pilgrim you know he loves you..

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    sourdoughsourdough Posts: 579
    SundaySilence wrote:
    No

    http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/05/current-volcanic-activity-and-climate/#more-306

    One point that is also worth making is that although volcanoes release some CO2 into the atmosphere, this is completely negligable compared to anthropogenic emissions (about 0.15 Gt/year of carbon, compared to about 7 Gt/year of human related sources) .

    Thanks for the link. I'm a bit apprehensive about quoting the 10 years thing myself because although it does highlight the urgency of the problem, it does sound a bit alarmist especially if they are off base even slightly or it doesn't become apparent for a while longer, it will give the skeptics only more reason to point at the failures of climate data and thus deflect from the problem itself which is very real.
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