Mostly By Mankind?
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A spectacular, pulse racing recent National Geographic show called “Six Degrees Could Change the
World” and “An Inconvenient Truth” which garnered Al Gore it’s high profile author and promoter a Nobel Prize each have a similar point of view of science and man’s carbon based activities. Each in it’s own ways present the case that man made doom is on the way unless rich nations like the US reduce it’s oil consumption before it is too late. They believe it could be too late within 5 or 10 years.
Please contribute to thoughtful discussions on this issue which some say is “closed science” and others dispute.
Comment by Snark Twain on 17 February 2008:
It’s too late already. Not that we should do nothing, but the world won’t and can’t drastically reduce its oil and coal consumption in five years, or ten, or twenty, for that matter, enough to stop global warming, if the science is right.
It might not be right. We can’t do a decent job of predicting a hurricane season yet, or what the weather will be in three months, much less fifty years.
But you can’t be a global warming skeptic anymore. These days, if you have any doubts, you’re a global warming “denier.” Which puts you in the unsavory company of Holocaust deniers. And I don’t want to be there and neither do you.
So cut carbon, by all means. But also think about mitigation of global warming’s effects.
Seawalls, anyone?
Comment by TROSKI on 17 February 2008:
A UCSB researcher is critical of the global warming findings and hysteria saying scientist should rely on science on the issue and are not. In a NEWSMAX article a CARIBEAN AND AUSTRALIAN SCIENTISTS said carbon dioxide is not the cause of warming in any case - water vapor is. Others contend deforestation is must morecontributory than other factors. In England AL GORE’S film can not be shown in classrooms without a disclaimer that it is a political and no science work.
As far as anyone can tell the earth is about two-thirds of one degres warmer on the celcius scale than it was 1,000 years ago and 2 degrees cooler than 10,000 years ago.