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It is a test, definitely.
The largest test we have ever ome across, and it MUST be dealt with during the next up-coming
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I'm not convinced we're the cause of it -- those greenhouses gases must be pretty dang bad to be
warming up Mars, Jupiter, Europa, Charon, and others...! And REALLY odd that the temperature shift
on Earth has been lesser than those other places... Almost as though Earth's biosphere were
attenuating the effect.
To declare that we are the cause of the warming smells a lot like anthrocentrism. "Something is
happening so we must be to cause!" I don't doubt the climate shift... Just the cause. To my rational
way of thinking, if other planets and planetoids are heating up as well, the cause must be
external.
The Earth is historically free of glaciation more often than not. I was 9 when they told me the Ice
Age would end someday. I guess a lot of people didn't get the news.
Nonetheless, it IS a test. Can we transition to the new version of planet Earth without slaying each
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Putting aside the ethical considerations of taking responsibility for the ecological ramifications
of our activities and putting aside the frankly ridiculous debate over exactly how much our
pollution has contributed to existing global weather trends, and just discussing the possible
ramifications of radical weather changes over the course of the next couple of hundred years in
conjunction with increasing population density worldwide we are facing a challenge that could easily
include a large scale collapse of modern society.
If you wish to put the future of humanity in the hands of vanishingly small percentage of global
warming dissenters when the theory represents one of the most universal consensuses in the
scientific community well that is your choice. To me that seems to be betting on pretty long odds.
Especially considering that there are a host of other environmental issues resultant from
anthropogenic pollution that directly impact our long term survivability as a species without even
considering global warming |
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If we are wrong, this experiment cannot be reversed. |
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It is the greatest challenge our species has ever faced. Unfortunately, I'm not optimistic that we
can rise to it. We are too close to the tipping points at which snowball effects will kick in,
making the problem almost impossible to solve. And it's hard to believe that the rapidly
industrialising countries, like China and India, are going to forego economic growth because of
predictions about global warming.
It's amazing that our entire civilisation is heading towards perdition because of the lure of a few
consumerist gew-gaws. We are like moths to the flame. Our intellect cannot overcome our instincts. |
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Global warming is nothing but a natural climate cycle, nothing more— that is, if global warming
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Of course its not its been made by us by the greenhouse gases(carbon dioxide, methane ETC). |
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09 Jun 2008 07:10
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