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Originally Posted by retsuki03
Also, even if it did, it effects the temperature at such and alarmingly small rate (.6 C since the industrial revolution!?) that worrying about it in our lifetime seems foolish.
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yep, lets screw our kids. Why worry about something that could affect them?
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Originally Posted by retsuki03
Also, as I understand it, global warming would provide a net benefit to agriculture anyway.
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Yep, as long as you don't live in the Pacific or near a coast. Or do you mean "underwater agriculture"?
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So seriously, what is the big deal?
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The deal is, that our planet has to deal with a lot of natural caused changes (ide ages, hot periods etc.) so I don't think it is wise to throw some extra spanners in the works. We should try to keep our impact as small as possible because when we see the big changes we made it might be too late.
as for you claim about no evidence, a recent study:
http://www.physorg.com/news3118.html
more at google:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ne...nG=Search+News