[Earth]

Has anybody been noticing a difference in weather patterns lately? It seems to be hotter then usual and more dry then usual over here this year. I noticed last year it was pretty bad with storms but also a lot of drought too.

My grass is starting to suffer, I personally believe in climate change but its like what they said is going to happen is starting to happen sooner then scientists said it will.

[Dubstep]

2 Words, Global Warming. Nothing new..

[Kaneki Ken]

Well, considering the Earth is changing as well as our solar system then yeah. The climate will change over time. It's Global Warming as well as other factors. Our moon is moving farther away from us as well as we are moving closer to the sun (but this stuff won't happen for millions of years so it doesn't make that much of a difference) but we're fucking our planet up. I'll agree it's happening sooner than what we predicted but this is expected from us.

[Saikou]

Regardless of whether or not climate change / global warming is a true occurrence, termites are the culprit.

For several years scientists have been warning that carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere by increased burning of fuel is likely to alter world climates, like a greenhouse, by inhibiting the escape of heat into outer space.

Now researchers report that termites, digesting vegetable matter on a global basis, produce more than twice as much carbon dioxide as all the world's smokestacks.

Termite gas production has become particularly high, the researchers say, because widespread clearing of land has offered them abundant food in the debris of felled forests. By digesting this debris, they are adding not only carbon dioxide but also methane to the atmosphere. Other researchers have found that methane in the atmosphere is increasing 2 percent a year.

The high level of termite gas production is reported in the Nov. 5 issue of the journal Science. The authors measured termite gas production inside laboratory jars. In Guatemala forests, they enclosed a huge arboreal termite nest in a Teflon bag to confirm that the insects were prolific producers of methane.

As pointed out Wednesday by one of the researchers, James P. Greenberg of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., termites are far more abundant than most people realize. He estimated that there were three quarters of a ton of termites for every person on earth. Balance of Natural Cycle

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http://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/31/us/ter...ution.html

Termite and Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Facts:

• Termites produce more Carbon Dioxide (CO2) each year than all living things combined.

• Scientists have calculated that termites alone produce ten times as much carbon dioxide as all the fossil fuels burned in the whole world in a year.

• Pound for pound, the weight of all the termites in the world is greater than the total weight of humans

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http://termitedetector.com/detection.cfm