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global warming?

Jan 30, 2006 08:44

First post here in god knows how long.
I was just reading this article on cnn.com Climate risk 'worse than thought-click hereFor the sake of discussion I was just curious what people's thoughts were. Granted, I'm sure the human race has had an affect on climate. I mean how could we not? We've torn down forests, polluted the air-water, etc etc ( Read more... )

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vnsplshr January 30 2006, 15:38:15 UTC

I'm sure the human race has had an affect on climate. I mean how could we not?

I don't buy this. Global Warming trends started before the industrial revolution, there are more trees in the US than before white settlement, there are more cars, but fewer turn of the century factories, ships and trains belching smoke, plants and rainforests put out a huge amount of greenhouse gas, and so on. By degree, I think we're insignificant.

kathhazel January 30 2006, 18:11:36 UTC

Before the industrial revolution people cut wood for fires, used charcoal for kilns. As long as another tree grew for the one cut down, the balance remains carbon neutral ( ... )

instantamish January 30 2006, 23:00:52 UTC

I don't believe 'simply stopping' is the answer we're looking for. How would the world look in 20 days after we've simply stopped burning fossil fuels?

Absolute chaos, that's what it'll look like. No cars, no computers - nothing. Stock piles of food requiring refridgeration would go bad and the entire nature of surviving in developed countries would take a drastic change.

Besides that, you'd have wide-spread revolts. Try cutting off someone's power and telling them that they're going to have to just 'tough it through because you're killing the planet.' - it simply won't cut it.

villainoust January 31 2006, 02:18:47 UTC

They didn't say don't use power all together, they just said not fossil fuels. There are plenty of alternative energy sources that we as a society don't invest enough time and money in.

I'm very happy to see that even American's are starting to realize we can't just always drive around hummers and gobble up of fuel. The $3.00 gas set off a few alarms for the average joe causing companies to comply with demands. Gas efficiency and other sources. Hopefully it's coming soon...

kathhazel January 31 2006, 16:01:16 UTC

It would be impossible to stop overnight, I agree, we have a little time to play with but not as much as some people think. It would be fairly easy to convert many of the power stations that burn coal to be wood burning. At least that way you go from carbon heavy to carbon neutral power production and stop things getting worse ( ... )

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