Global Warming - I'm melting

[Tashtego]

It's more cultural imperialism from the Great Satan. The inner city black kids of the US are remorselessly conquering the entire planet with hip-hop culture. 'Fat' has been used as a variant of 'cool' for at least 20 years.

[StukaJU87]

Am I missing something? The word Fett in the german language means fat. It´s not cool. Having written this I am sure now that I missed the joke in another thread ... lol

5074, it's the same thing in Norwegian, but for some bizarre reason people have started to use the word to describe things that are cool, or awesome etc.

Must be a variation on the slang word "phat" that gets used too often by the hip hop culture here in the US. Meaning is the same...sool, awesome....
e.g. "Yo Money! Those be some phat spinna's on you ride, G!"

[lerxstcat]

Am I missing something? The word Fett in the german language means fat. It´s not cool. Having written this I am sure now that I missed the joke in another thread ... lol

It's American ghetto slang now, but spelled "phat" when it means cool. I guess the diffreent spelling didn't cross over in translation. Like "I got a phat blunt ta smoke, yo!"

Edit: Stuka beat me to it!

[Guitardude86]

The inner city black kids of the US are remorselessly conquering the entire planet with hip-hop culture.

You know.. The only thing worse than that are white kids living with their parents trying to be like them. Do they really think they can relate to that?? No way, Jose

[lerxstcat]

"The Stern Review forecasts that 1% of global gross domestic product (GDP) must be spent on tackling climate change immediately.

It warns that if no action is taken:


Floods from rising sea levels could displace up to 100 million people

Melting glaciers could cause water shortages for 1 in 6 of the world's population

Wildlife will be harmed; at worst up to 40% of species could become extinct

Droughts may create tens or even hundreds of millions of "climate refugees" "

So what else is new? I hear that every day. I'm not saying I don't care, I just think it's kind of funny when someone makes a 700 page report on something we're all VERY MUCH AWARE ABOUT and act like they discovered it first... What the f*** is that all about?

It's because government and business are largely ignoring the findings, so they keep doing more studies and increasing the number of findings supporting their beliefs. They hope that eventually the necessary changes will be made - or if not, they'll have a helluva "I told you so" to taint our generation's leaders throughout history.

I certainly believe it's happening, Katrina is considered to have been made stronger due to global warming than it would have been without the trend.
Considering it destroyed many homes that dated back to the early 1800s I would say that indicates that conditions are now brewing stronger storms.
And we had tropical storms in that season all the way into January 2006 IIRC.

Anyway, if storms like Katrina become common, life in the Southeast US and along the Gulf of Mexico are going to be much more grim. Multiply that effect worldwide and a 20% shrinking in global economy sounds optimistic.

[OnlineStageGear]

What about the Greenhouse Effect? Should we dismiss that as BS too? If that's the case I'll have to have a chat with the teachers at some of the schools I've went to, because they made a big deal of hammering that into our brains!

I never said it was BS, but they do like to exadurate numbers to scare us. Do you remeber in the early 80s the enviromentalists said we had 4-8 years before we filled up all our landfills and would have trash everywhere ? Hell, Ted Dansen said on the Tonight Show that we had 4 years left before we had nowhere else to put our trash.

[AfterForever]

Damn, furinners.:ROTF: :ROTF: :ROTF: In Gemany, I'm cool. In Norway, I'm fat. This international stuff has me perplexed.:ROTF: :ROTF: :ROTF: :ROTF:

In the Netherlands your name would mean "greasy" hahaha

(It can also have the german meaning btw)

[Nuclear Vampire]

This is part of the reason why Global Warming isn't dealt with the way it should be in North America

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/denialmachine/index.html

[Guitardude86]

In the Netherlands your name would mean "greasy" hahaha

(It can also have the german meaning btw)

Hey Fett, you're officially Greasy Kid's Stuff!

[HoWheels]

Hey look what I found in the news this morning!

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/11/16/smog.warming.ap/index.html

Scientists: Pollution could combat global warming

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Air pollution may be just the thing to fight global warming, some scientists say.
Prominent scientists, among them a Nobel laureate, said a layer of pollution deliberately spewed into the atmosphere could act as a "shade" from the sun's rays and help cool the planet.
Reaction to the proposal here at the annual U.N. conference on climate change is a mix of caution, curiosity and some resignation to such "massive and drastic" operations, as the chief U.N. climatologist describes them.
The Nobel Prize-winning scientist who first made the proposal is himself "not enthusiastic about it."
"It was meant to startle the policymakers," said Paul J. Crutzen, of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. "If they don't take action much more strongly than they have in the past, then in the end we have to do experiments like this."
Serious people are taking Crutzen's idea seriously. This weekend at Moffett Field, California, NASA's Ames Research Center hosts a closed-door, high-level workshop on the global haze proposal and other "geoengineering" ideas for fending off climate change.
In Nairobi, meanwhile, hundreds of delegates were wrapping up a two-week conference expected to only slowly advance efforts to rein in greenhouse gases blamed for much of the 0.6-degree-Celsius (1-degree-Fahrenheit) rise in global temperatures in the past century.
The 1997 Kyoto Protocol requires modest emission cutbacks by industrial countries -- but not the United States, the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases, because it rejected Kyoto. Talks on what to do after Kyoto expires in 2012 are all but bogged down.
When he published his proposal in the journal Climatic Change in August, Crutzen cited a "grossly disappointing international political response" to warming.
The Dutch climatologist, awarded a 1995 Nobel in chemistry for his work uncovering the threat to Earth's atmospheric ozone layer, suggested that balloons bearing heavy guns be used to carry sulfates high aloft and fire them into the stratosphere.
While carbon dioxide keeps heat from escaping Earth, substances such as sulfur dioxide, a common air pollutant, reflect solar radiation, helping cool the planet.
Tom Wigley, a senior U.S. government climatologist, followed Crutzen's article with a paper of his own October 20 in the leading U.S. journal Science. Like Crutzen, Wigley cited the precedent of the huge volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991.
Pinatubo poured so much sulfurous debris into the stratosphere that it is believed it cooled the Earth by 0.5 degrees Celsius (0.9 degrees Fahrenheit) for about a year.
Wigley ran scenarios of stratospheric sulfate injection -- on the scale of Pinatubo's estimated 10 million tons of sulfur -- through supercomputer models of the climate, and reported that Crutzen's idea would, indeed, seem to work. Even half that amount per year would help, he wrote.
A massive dissemination of pollutants would be needed every year or two, as the sulfates precipitate from the atmosphere in acid rain.
The American scientist said a temporary shield would give political leaders more time to reduce human dependence on fossil fuels -- main source of greenhouse gases. He said experts must more closely study the feasibility of the idea and its possible effects on stratospheric chemistry.
Nairobi conference participants agreed.
"Yes, by all means, do all the research," Indian climatologist Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the 2,000-scientist U.N. network on climate change, said.
But "if human beings take it upon themselves to carry out something as massive and drastic as this, we need to be absolutely sure there are no side effects," Pachauri said.
Philip Clapp, a veteran campaigner for emissions controls to curb warming, also sounded a nervous note, saying, "We are already engaged in an uncontrolled experiment by injecting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere."
But Clapp, president of the U.S. group National Environmental Trust, said, "I certainly don't disagree with the urgency."
American geophysicist Jonathan Pershing, of Washington's World Resources Institute, was also wary of unforeseen consequences, but said the idea might be worth considering "if down the road 25 years it becomes more and more severe because we didn't deal with the problem."
By telephone from Germany, Crutzen said that's what he envisioned: global haze as a component for long-range planning. "The reception on the whole is more positive than I thought," he said.
Pershing added, however, that reaction may hinge on who pushes the idea. "If it's the U.S., it might be perceived as an effort to avoid the problem," he said.
NASA said this weekend's California conference will examine "methods to ameliorate the likelihood of progressively rising temperatures over the next decades." Other such U.S. government-sponsored events are scheduled to follow.

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[fett]

Hey Fett, you're officially Greasy Kid's Stuff!

Get serious here, you guys. That's why you should always check a name before sticking it to a newborn.

[Accept2]

This is part of the reason why Global Warming isn't dealt with the way it should be in North America


http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/denialmachine/index.html

I watched this last night and laughed as it was so obvious that it was bullshit. I guess its more plausible that Bush must have travelled back in time to change Egypt from lush forests to a desert, then to think it was caused by natural fluctuations in the atmosphere. Remember our atmosphere is influenced by higher dimentions. Its a concept that goes over the hystericals heads because they use propaganda like the shit above instead of acknowleging that no one on the planet has all the answers as to why the earth does anything it actually does. The problem with alot of the environmental studies is that they have a conclusion long before they even do the research, and that happens 100% on both sides.............

[JC_Denton]

Global warming my ass it was 10 below 0 and it was October for christ sake!!!!!

[Tashtego]

It's clear that global climate varied greatly even before the industrial revolution . On the other hand, the global warming mass hysteria is a great way to garner widespread support for developing energy sources that will allow us to destroy the middle easterners. I'm all for it even though the scientific community is doing great damage to its integrity.

[shadowcat]

Am I missing something? The word Fett in the german language means fat. It´s not cool. Having written this I am sure now that I missed the joke in another thread ... lol

Wait... you come from Hamburg...

... you can't tell me that you've never seen a kid yet shouting out stuff like "fett, digger!"