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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Ugh...........
Deep breaths......
Happy place .......  happy place......  happy place 
Ahhh there.
Of course there could be more going on, but the point is we don't KNOW we don't have a fucking clue really. The models don't work, and the past is ignored. We don't know why it was warmer in the 1300's, we don't know why it was MUCH warmer 5000 years ago, we don't know why it got so damn cold in the 1700's, we dont' know why it was getting colder in the 1970's.
We have some untestable theories and nothing more. Are YOU confident enough in them to change the global climate on purpose based on an entire set of unknowns? What if the cooling of the 70's returns? We don't know why we had it then, we don't know if it would come back. What if we decide to seed the atmosphere and then we have a major krakatoa type eruption? That could put us in another ice age! What if what if what if. Acting for the sake of acting because 'something must be done' when we don't even know what the problem is, is beyond foolish, its just stupid. |
i never claimed to support doing something drastic to change our climate. no one here has. if you read the article, you'd see they're talking about researching for a "worst case only" scenario. but i'm confident enough in the science that's been done that shows that humans have and are continuing to contribute to *this* period of global warming that we should be doing more to curb our contribution to it. we could do more. it would cost more in the short term, but it's worth it if it means a potential disaster could be avoided.
i don't plan on having kids, but i'd think it'd be swell if your grandkids and their grandkids had a habitable planet to live on.