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ceilingFANBOY
03/02/09

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All this time Montgomery Burns was really just trying to curb global warming when he made that giant sunshade over Springfield.
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Gawd
02/28/09

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Kinda like THE CORE.

@twophrasebark: OCTOPII
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twophrasebark
02/28/09

@Gawd:

"There are three forms of the plural of octopus; namely, octopuses, octopi, and octopodes."

[en.wikipedia.org]
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twophrasebark
02/28/09

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"or an alien squid may appear and destroy Manhattan, of course"

There are no alien squid.

Just octopuses.
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Harrison_Bergeron
02/28/09

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Humans monkeying around with the climate is the last thing we need. Does anyone need to be reminded that the global climate is a DYNAMIC system? It has risen and fallen in temperature hundreds of times. There have been 75 major temperature swings in the last 4,500 years. If you look at a graph its one heck of a roller coaster. It reached much higher global temperatures than today's panic inducing warm up twice, once around 1000 BC and the other during the middle ages. Should we blame those warm periods on enterprising Egyptians and Europeans with their tanneries? In fact most temperature swings can be linked to changes in the Earth's volcanic activity and to solar variation. So based on a theory that's only been around for a decade or two and a very small subset of data going back to only the 1950's we should start messing around with the Earth's climate at will? I for one do not trust scientist that much and don't want my planet to be their sandbox. What's more, even if humanity is responsible for this current spike I say: so what? Global climate and environments are not static. I'll never understand people's preoccupation with trying to keep everything in nature the way they think it should be. Yeah that red wood forest is wicked cool, but keeping it the way it is breaks the natural cycle of which it is a part. Econazis don't get all up in arms when a beaver builds a dam or when a chimp grabs a rock to smash another one's face in. So if you're going to hang your entire movement on science why can't humans be accepted as just another animal in the system. So we modify our environment, tough luck, adapt or die.

And I know a lot of people are going to be like, "But the poor polar bears." That's all some people care about, but in closing: polar bears are assholes.
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Gann
02/28/09

@Harrison_Bergeron: While I agree with everything you said, I do think we need to try our hand at planet hacking eventually. Like you say, our contribution to climate change is insignificant compared to the massive natural swings in our relatively recent history. The problem I see is that in all probability one of these natural swings will eventually make our planet too hot or too cold to live on.
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