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Reply to "Okay all of you Global Warming nay sayeres,"

Gee NashBama,

Have you looked at the computer modeling? Human activity is not the underlying cause of global warming, it is a CONTRIBUTOR. The environment has been warming for 50 millenia or so. There has been a noticable, appreciable and accellerating increase in the RATE of warming over the past 150 years.
The combination of natural and human induced warming speeds up the changes in global climate.(that is why we call it CLIMATE CHANGE) This reduces the time available for ADAPTING to the changed situation. Humans are great at adapting to the environment, The range of the human species is the totality of the earth.
There are a couple of things we cannot easily adapt to. One is CROP FAILURE. Agriculture is an adaptation that has made it possible for the Human population of the earth to grow from about 150 million 2000 years ago to over 6 billion today. Agriculture, combined with transportation allows humans to be fed in Antartica, The only continent where humans are unable to prosper and reproduce. What adaptations will be necessary during the next millenium for the population of humans to remain at 6 billion, or even increase? One, agriculture will have to expand, if coastal regions are innundated by the sea, the land mass available for expansion will decline. Two, transportation will have to continue, or increase. Transportation TODAY is dependent on fossil fuels, they are not sustainable, and their use is accellerating the warming of the global climate. Three, the human population will have to stabilize, it cannot grow indefinitely. Present technologies do not provide the energy resources necessary to continue Mechanized Agriculture indefinitely. We are consuming, at an unsustainable rate, the food resources of the wild world. Mainly fish stocks. We are also consuming the Oxygen resources in the form of timber, and expansion of agriculture into jungles and forests. We are also putting toxins into the environment that are damaging the ability of the ocean to sustain its viability. I have read at least one abstract that predicts human life spans will begin to decline before the end of this century due to toxins in the atmosphere and our food supplies.
If we don't start to adapt to these problems now, we may not have time to adapt later.

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