Please tell me this is a joke.

That would raise it even more.

Quote from: SoporificSlash on December 09, 2015, 11:48:07 AM

When you get into a bathtub does the water level rise or lower?

So that's a no I take it?

Yes, but do you know why?

Quote from: Jagdtiger on December 09, 2015, 11:49:47 AM

Quote from: SoporificSlash on December 09, 2015, 11:48:07 AM

When you get into a bathtub does the water level rise or lower?

So that's a no I take it?

Yes, but do you know why?

Yeah I understand as you put something underwater, the water levels rise. I just figured since the ocean is so big that the void would've counteracted that.

Quote from: Jagdtiger on December 09, 2015, 11:57:45 AM

Since that wouldn't work nor is it even feasible, I was thinking maybe if we created large depressions in landmasses like Death Valley in California for seawater to fill as it rises.

Saving the environment by destroying it

Genius

So rather than insult my intelligence why don't you suggest a solution?

How exactly are you planning on "Sinking" a giant piece of land?

That would just displace more water, and cause it to rise...

Since the Chinks and India couldn't give two shits about the environment I don't think reducing emissions will be very effective.

India is taking great strides to reduce their emissions.

Nope. Nothing can currently be done. We're already in the runaway environmental effects. In order to even make a dent, you'd need to actually stop every single carbon emission on the planet. Shut down everything. And that wouldn't stop it at this point because it's moving on its own now.

So, long story short, we dun goofed, the weather's gonna do some dammicky shit, things are gonna get messy, and it'll be a long fucking time before the weather stabilizes once more.

And even then conservative would claim global warming being caused by man as bullshit.

Wait, guys, I got it.

Instead of sinking the Arabian peninsula, let's just blast it into the sun!

Quote from: Thunder on December 09, 2015, 12:34:43 PM

Quote from: Snowtrap on December 09, 2015, 12:32:03 PM

Nope. Nothing can currently be done. We're already in the runaway environmental effects. In order to even make a dent, you'd need to actually stop every single carbon emission on the planet. Shut down everything. And that wouldn't stop it at this point because it's moving on its own now.

So, long story short, we dun goofed, the weather's gonna do some dammicky shit, things are gonna get messy, and it'll be a long fucking time before the weather stabilizes once more.

And even then conservative would claim global warming being caused by man as bullshit.

They'd partially be right, actually.

The deal that everybody forgets with this "caused by man" bullshit is that, go figure, the fucking environment changes. Our world has had a lot of stages of weather over the course of its history. It's never stayed the same.

Over the course of thousands of years, the oceans might have rose on their own.

The only thing we've had a hand in, is accelerating how fast the change takes place.

The whole speal about us causing global warming or climate change is ridiculously overstating and overestimating our abilities to control anything on this planet.

I spent a fair amount of time actually reading the report on our effects on Global Warming

We're doing a lot, and if we keep at it, things could change by up to 4°C by 2100 if we don't try to reduce our emissions (Doesn't sound like much, but that's the global average, places could hit 10°C higher on average)

You gotta remember that even if we only account for say, 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, the Earth was already in equilibrium, recycling whatever got spewed out naturally. Our contributions cause more emissions than the Earth can recycle and so it just stays in the atmosphere, contributing to climate change

the trick is to airlift australia into space, then there'll be a void for water

yes, get rid of all those muslims lol