Greatest threat - Climate change or Terror

Looking at recent weather phenomenom and regular terrorist attacks what do fellow members believe to be the greatest threat.

I think without a doubt climate change is upon us and we could be in for a very fast change. I dont mean fast as in the next year or 2 but within the next decade or so.

In the past it has been suggested that the earth has gone from being an ice planet to a dry planet and vice versa in the space of a few decades, not just once but many times. Of cause there are also scientists that disagree and say that it takes thousands of years for a signifigant climate change.

I am very interested in this subject and have spent many hours reading books and so on and i personaly think from what i have absorbed that a very signifigant climate change could happen in a very short time.

 

i think its the climate change. its really unpredictable like what happened to the tsunam in Thailand. we can evade terrrorists attack if we just unite and cooperate.

 

Keep in mind that these natural disasters have been happening for quite some time.

 

The weather in england has been rearly topsy turvy for a few years now, nothing compared to the predictable weather we used to have.

When i was a kid 25 odd years ago we would have snow every winter im my area, guaranteed. Now were lucky to get any snow at all that sticks.

Natural disasters have happened since time began, long before humans were around and they will continue till the end of the earth but at some points in time they become more frequent and more intense.

It looks to me this is one of those times and it could get a lot worse

 

True, we just do not yet know as to what extent.

 

Climate changes are happing since the beginning of earth. http://www.ipcc.ch/ The only thing is that we are pulling so much earth resources for human benefit that humans influence climate changes more than nature does it self.

Terror is human related; I mean people are commited to terror because of religion, money, power..

So what's worse? We're a both to blame for it.

 

I really wish Bush could go another term so he could ride out the new enemy and launch a "war on weather".

el Nino you are going DOWN!

 

We have a fairly good idea as to what extent.

We may be helping climate change along the way but it will happen anyway, its inevitable. Even if we vanished tomorow the climate would still change drasticly from time to time.

At the end of the day there isnt rearly anything we can do about climate change. We are at its mercy.

 

Do you mean the 260 days/year rain?

 

Well thats it gworld.

Last summer it rained most of the time and then the winter came and it hardly rained at all. was still hot and cold when it should be but it just seems messed up.

 

I think you need to do a bit more (critical) reading, wanboll. Climate variations are cyclical and long-term. What happened or didn't happen in the past 25 years is pretty much irrelevant in the life cycle of a planet. On top of that, people have been saying pretty much the same thing for a century or more.

 

I think whether it's happening on a cyclical pattern or not is beside the point here. The fact that some drastic change that some drastic climatic change that happened long ago might happened right on our time is the more important thing to watch out.

 

Digimania - How do you propose changing it if its cyclical?

 

The poles switching (as happens every couple hundred years) is more of a threat. Planes dropping from the skies and hard disks wiped are just two consequences out of the many ones there are.

 

Devangel - Climate changes don't have any effect on Tsunamis...they are caused by earth quakes.

http://www.uaf.edu/seagrant/earthquake/tsunami.html

 

better get storing your data on your fingernails then

 

Flight instruments getting confused, I can understand, but how would this wipe our hard drives?

Cheers,
Mat

 

1's and 0's are just a matter of switching magnetic fields. Turn them all around and all your ones are zero's and vice versa.

That's what I think will happen but I haven't looked into it much.

Here's some reading on it. This one suggests it might take 7 to 28 thousand years so we'r eprobably OK if that's indeed true. Though I was told before it's instant.

http://www.meta-religion.com/Physics/Other_subjects/doomsday_polar_flip.htm

 

Also what would happen to the moon?

 

We're talking about magnetic fields here - not gravity. So it shouldn't affect the moon's orbit. Not sure if it would affect the moon in any other way.

Mat