Climate 'warmest for millennium'

[Kim]

Did you know that a single tablespoon of oil on a mechanics garage floor evapourating causes more damage to the environment than a Porsche 911 driving to Edinborough and back to London.

Where did that little gem come from Jon?

[Mr. Jon Donnis]

guidedspirithunter said:

Did you know that a single tablespoon of oil on a mechanics garage floor evapourating causes more damage to the environment than a Porsche 911 driving to Edinborough and back to London.

Where did that little gem come from Jon?

Top Gear

[Kim]

oh well has to be correct then!!!!!!!!

[Mr. Jon Donnis]

yep

[katy]

Did you know that a single tablespoon of oil on a mechanics garage floor evapourating causes more damage to the environment than a Porsche 911 driving to Edinborough and back to London.

where on earth did you glean this highly dubious nugget of "information" from? *reads further down thread* oh, top gear. uh-huh. They're not biased at all are they? Did you not consider that that was rubbish? does it even sound remotely likely to be true? ;D

Rubbish, our effect on this planet is neglegable

If you believe that then you are a deluded fool. Don't listen to government or top gear. listen to the scientists, ideally the ones not working for a company that wants to carry on polluting and is therefore trying to manipulate the figures to make it look like nothing is wrong.

One Volcano erupting pumps more carbon and sulphur into the atmosphere than a 100 years of industry

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One volcano erupts over a period of hours, days, maybe weeks. The sulphur gets rained out within weeks. Anthropological emissions are constant, and increasing.


btw; good post pandora!

[Mr. Jon Donnis]

where on earth did you glean this highly dubious nugget of "information" from? *reads further down thread* oh, top gear. uh-huh. They're not biased at all are they? Did you not consider that that was rubbish? does it even sound remotely likely to be true? ;D

Yep!

If you believe that then you are a deluded fool. Don't listen to government or top gear. listen to the scientists, ideally the ones not working for a company that wants to carry on polluting and is therefore trying to manipulate the figures to make it look like nothing is wrong.

Top gear rules! They are my Derek Acorah

One volcano erupts over a period of hours, days, maybe weeks. The sulphur gets rained out within weeks. Anthropological emissions are constant, and increasing.

But a supervolcanoe is what they now consider to be one of the real explanations for the death of the dinosaurs

[katy]

But a supervolcanoe is what they now consider to be one of the real explanations for the death of the dinosaurs

Not its not. The major hypothesis for the extinction of the dinosaurs is a meteorite. Some scientists postulated the coincidence of the eruption of the Deccan traps being a factor, but this is generally considered to be unlikely

[Mr. Jon Donnis]

Either way no one knows.
Both hypothesis are equally accepted

[katy]

No they're not.

The meteorite hypothesis is much more credible and has far more supporting evidence; the Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan peninsula and the 95% reduction in plankton which is indistinguishable time-wise from the crater for a start!

Whereas the Deccan Traps being a factor is highly speculative; all the other mass lava eruptions (and there are many in Earths history) do not have a mass-extinction associated with them. The amount of sulphur produced is considered highly unlikely to have caused enough environment disturbance to have killed off the the dinosaurs.

[Mr. Jon Donnis]

dont confuse me with science

[katy]

ok lol! ;D