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My climate studies class has really been an eye-opening experience. It's great to sit with 13 really smart firsties and 2 really smart LT's and discuss the problems of our world. Obviously, we talk a lot about "global warming", climate change, and what it means for our earth. I get frustrated when I realize that alternative energies is there (some more efficient than others), but it's about breaking through people's apathy. The only way to start making these methods more attractive is to place tax on the fossil fuels methods, because by the time the costs get too high for the consumers and it's too expensive to extract oil/coal/natural gas from inaccessible places, it will be too late to make a smooth transition, and our economy will fail. The only way to do this is to have the technology now, be implimenting it into industry, and wean ourselves off oil. Congress could mandate all this, but no politician in his right mind would suggest this unless the pressure from the voters was there. But no, they're all reading People Magazine and watching TV of those poor black people in New Orleans stuck in the Superdome. If only they'd realize that hurricanes are fed by the temperature of surface waters, and the surface water absorb sunlight, and that the temperatures we feel lag behind the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere by 30 years. We're killing ourselves because we can't make small lifestyle adjustments until there's a tragedy to react to.
Everyone should spent time with the IPCC report summary. Just read the bold and boxed print, and look at the figures. It's pretty digestable. And its biggest criticism is that it's too conservative...
Everyone should spent time with the IPCC report summary. Just read the bold and boxed print, and look at the figures. It's pretty digestable. And its biggest criticism is that it's too conservative...