Ice sheets NOT thickening

[El_Machinae]

and with a rise of less than one degree Celcius in the last century, I'm really not that concerned.

Taper; your opinion on global warming was formed (partially) using this data?

What would you say if the warming was much more significant?

 

[FriendlyFire]

And 50,000 years ago man was still living in caves with no metropolises on coastlines, near the equator, nor spread out about all the world. I'd world about any drasstic changes to the environment because it will cause a lot of upheavel, and we need to plan accordingly.

Thats correct IIRC Humanity developing into early civilization began around 6000BC. That fact that ice core dated to around 50,000BC melting is rather worrying. considering the last "great extinction" occured around this time.

 

[BasketCase]

Goodie! Another global warming thread!

Chalk me up in the not-worried column. But then, this thread wasn't originally about global warming anyway. FriendlyFire's OP is about how somebody butchered somebody else's report and only copied the stuff they agreed with. This is the real problem. The entire issue has been completely poisoned by people who don't care about finding the truth, and only listen to what they want to hear.

And yes, by that I mean the Seventh Day Globalwarmingists are doing it too.

 

[taper]

Taper; your opinion on global warming was formed (partially) using this data?

What would you say if the warming was much more significant?

If the warming was much more significant, I would probably start to worry, but since it's not, I'm not. From this graph, it appears modern temp change is entirely normal, and we still have a long ways to go before we hit temps seen 120,000 years ago, or 220,000, or 320,000 years ago. People can argue til they're blue in the face, but you just can't argue with geological records. I'm an engineer, open to new ideas, but you need to prove your views and back them up with data.

 

[FriendlyFire]

And yes, by that I mean the Seventh Day Globalwarmingists are doing it too.

Indeed although keep in mind that scientist tend to be "conservative" (ahha) in projecting the consequnces of global waming.

EDIT: ROLMAO "Seventh Day Globalwarmingists"
Oh the IRONY the IRONY

Someone is confusing science with religon