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Originally posted by b50m:
All thses guys paid off by the Koch brothers, seeweed?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...nt_of_global_warming
Seems most of those you point out agree the earth is getting warmer, just whether it is man made , natural, or a combination.
We do know that during the past, 150 million years or so ago, the earth was much warmer than it is now, and at that time from ice samples , there was more CO2 in the atmosphere (? why).
Now, was the CO2 responsible, or other causes.
We may never know for sure, but one thing IS for sure. If you and the Koch brothers are wrong, we humans are in for a tough future and BUT there is something we can do to mitigate the eventual outcome. If y'all are right, we humans are in for a tough future and there is NOTHING we can do to mitigate it.
My personal preference is to believe that we humans CAN have an affect on the future. That is the best of the two given scenarios.
If that is the case, we should do whatever we can to start today, as to wait until it is too late would be tragic.
For the life of me, I cannot understand why some of you are so happy to accept anyone that hints that global warming is false, or that it is not man made.
The earth is warming, fact. In fact, I can tell a difference, a big difference in my relatively short life-time. Is my life-time long enough to make a judgement in the overall scheme of things ? Probably not, but to me it is a lifetime.
So, here are the options:
> Believe the whole thing is bologna and the majority of scientist in the world are crazy- do nothing but continue to pour millions of dollars into the fossil fuel business until it is completely depleted or in the case of coal, "the land was forsaken" as John Prine wrote.
>Believe the majority of scientist in the world are correct in that the earth is warming, but believe they are wrong that carbon is the problem. Do nothing, hope for the best.
> Believe the majority of scientist in the world community are correct both in the earth warming and in their assumption that carbon is the problem. Do whatever we can to limit the ammount of carbon WE are responsible for putting in the air (as I mentioned earlier). Support political policies that promote carbon-free energy supplies.
Coincidently, the third approach is what China is doing now . They realize the consequences of continuing to pump carbon into the atmosphere, but I have to admit it is easier for them to do because they don't have Republicans who are bought and paid for by the Koch brothers, and other carbon-based energy companies to contend with. Maybe you should tune into Radio China on occasion, they have an English broadcast, and from time to time they talk about their attempt to move as quickly as possible to a green economy even though they are having to build coal fired power plants in the interim.
We've let the rest of the world get ahead of us on a lot of things, getting a handle on this sort of thing ie: green energy, could be a very good thing for our economy. Lets face it, the days of a middle class manufacturing stuff in this country is about gone. Robots can do almost all of it. We gotta do something else.