Global Dimming

[julien_simon]

we are screwed. If we fight global warming, global dimming will make us go back to ice age, if we fight global dimming, we'll cook like an oven.

let's stop worrying about the environment and post japanese crap in this forum

-2058273530743771382

ok, I don;t know how to embed GV.

here is the code. Can a smart person please do it for me?
Global Dimming (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2058273530743771382&ei=r_T-SvWWBKaIqQOJtYnlCQ&q=global+dimming&hl=en#)

[Ferre]

I tried a few times and hit preview but I don't manage to get it to work either. :sqfrown:

[Zap]

Use just the number between the GV tags and, apparently, the minus sign before the number is also needed.

[iowadawg]

Well, depending on who one listens to, and what methodology is used, we will either:
1. fry
2. freeze
3. drown
4. starve

Not to be confused with the end of drinkable water as we know it.

[julien_simon]

-2058273530743771382

let's try

[julien_simon]

yeah, it works!

[julien_simon]

Well, depending on who one listens to, and what methodology is used, we will either:
1. fry
2. freeze
3. drown
4. starve

Not to be confused with the end of drinkable water as we know it.

it's pretty much depressing...good thing almost nobody is gonna watch the video on this forum :sqwink:

[iowadawg]

Way I look at the whole problem?

Al Gore will be dead and buried before he will ever find out if he was telling the truth or stretching the truth or just shilling for the wrong people.

Same with me....

[julien_simon]

They forgot to mention cow farts in that documentary, responsible for ozone layer holes.

[Atom]

it's pretty much depressing...good thing almost nobody is gonna watch the video on this forum :sqwink:I will watch it this very moment, but only to prove you wrong. Ok j/k, I won't watch it this very moment, I'm not really in the mood for being depressed at this time, but I'm glad you said something because I'll have something to do when depression strikes, I'll use the experience in an attempt to justify the depression.

[Atom]

Things are actually looking up. I'm not really fond of the depression mode, bad enough depressing shit happens when it does, you know?

[julien_simon]

that's the spirit! keep it up Atom!

[Atom]

I am currently downloading the item in question. I've decided to watch it at this time, which is not that other time, BTW. If I come out of this experience depressed, I will take a stroll up and down the drive way, that may help. I saw some kind of a zygote looking critter and paused it right there figuring I'd better download the whole thing before I watch it. Funny how a zygote can trigger such thinking, I don't understand it myself, I just live. Which reminds me incidentally of the famous Peter Griffin line; we lived, Lois, we lived our lives. lol

[julien_simon]

well - make the best of this video...that's all I can say.

[Atom]

You know what? I actually think that I may have seen it before because that zygote looks kinda familiar.

[julien_simon]

it's a pretty old video - If you are familiar with the concept of global dimming, destroying lives, creating natural disasters but compensating for global warming....you've seen it.

[Strong]

I remember seeing this program some time ago on TV. I suspect that current climate models will incorporate the global dimming data. And current predictions show massive changes, up to 6 degrees change in temperatures for the British Isles. That will cause massive problems.

Current predictions say our entire climate will change, new deserts will be created, flooding will wipe out some low lying areas like Bangladesh and the Moldives (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldives), the Arctic will lose most of it's ice during the summer months.


The Maldives is the smallest Asian country in both population and area. With an average ground level of 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) above sea level, it is the lowest country on the planet.[6] It is also the country with the lowest highest point in the world, at 2.3 metres (7 ft 7 in).

[ewomack]

Warming, dimming, etc., etc... how wonderful it is to be a collection of aimlessly wandering eukaryotic cells...

[ewomack]

I've never seen "Horizon," evidence points to British origins... BBC?

[ewomack]

Ah! Yes... Horizon... BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/index.shtml)

How come Brits get all the good telly? I can't turn TV on in Yankee land without vomiting out my vitals...

[ewomack]

We are incapable of doing anything outside of our human nature, so it seems... destroying ourselves seems to be well within our nature... oh well... it was fun...

[Strong]

Ah! Yes... Horizon... BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/index.shtml)

How come Brits get all the good telly? I can't turn TV on in Yankee land without vomiting out my vitals...

Ironically Horizon has dumbed down quite a bit over the last few years, it used to be the supreme science program on UK television. It still is, but in search of larger audiences it has gone for increasingly more popular subjects and more sensational presentation techniques.

That said it is still worth watching and outclasses most other science programs on British television. (Although I'm particularly fond of The Sky at Night (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sky_At_Night), an astronomy program that has been running 1957.)

BTW the BBC is publicly funded through a licence fee which all house holds who have a TV must pay. It has a remit to produce programming that other broadcasters do not produce, including educational programs. There have been calls to scrap the license fee and force the BBC to fight for advertising revenue like other broadcasters, but I suspect that would sound the death knell for quality TV in the UK.