[QUOTE="guynamedbilly"][QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"] Im getting sick of these dumb global warming threads. Its happeing,whether its our cause or not,we have a choice to try to prevent it.Worry about the poor and money?The impact of global warming would not only kill the poor, but also lead to millions more with no home. As of Al Gore, the impact hes done, and the change he caused if far better than anything Bush has done. Bush the guy who worried about the US losing 400billion on global warming back in 2000, yet hes spent that much as of now on his "war on terror" which has done nothing good.
SaintLeonidas
Truth isn't really stranger than fiction in my opinion. I love when people say these BS things like millions will die, and the northern hemisphere will flood over... Nobody knows what will happen because man hasn't been recording this kind of stuff for a long enough period of time.
its not hard to predict what happens when large amount of ice melt. They know if all plays out it can cause a rise in sea level. Along with that the change in weather conditions. Spread of disease. Yes these are all predictions, but to say, no lets wait and see, or its not gonna happen yet evidence shows it will is not a very bright thing to do. We cant chance the lives of so many. This global warming thing really is a flip of the coin thing, it gonna happen, or it wont, but we cant risk it, especially when we know whats at stack. What sounds dumber, telling your kids in 20 years" ow we tried stopping global warming, but it wasnt real and there was a mass economic depression"...or " we did nothing to prevent it, leading to the death of millions,economic depression, war, massive change in climate, and so much more."
Humans cant take all the blame, i agree with that. This is a normal cycle on earth for the co2 and temp tp rise and fall. However, that normal cycle has been impacted by humans. Our addition of co2 is gonna alter that cycle were it will reach new hieghts, and there will be more co2 than the cycle has ever produced. We may not be able to stop it, but limiting our co2, doing research, and trying to cut back willl atleast help make the impact of global warming less servere.
People say it halts development. However we cant live in the past. In order for humans to survive, global warming or not, we must advance. We must get cleaner fuels and technology, not just to stop global warming, but to develop into a new age.
Is it? If the earth keeps getting warmer, wouldn't it stand to reason that more water would evaporate into the atmosphere? How do you know that would not be enough to take care of the water by itself?
Yes, there could be massive disease, global flooding, millions of deaths and so on...; but we can just go off following after the most popular social fad, no matter who endorses it. We can't just say that if we don't act and it does happen it will be worse than if it does happen and we don't act. The reason being is that their have been popular movements like this many many times in the past for various things. What happened to that comet (Swift-Tuttle I believe) that was supposed to collide with Earth in the 90s? Nothing, it missed. What about the great society collapse of Jan 1, 2000? Nothing much. Now, I realize that just because scientists have been wrong in the past doesn't automatically discredit them. But people have to accept that we can't just go chasing after every doomsday prediction or it's very likely that we'll bring doomsday upon ourselves by the collapse of our economy and government.
That said, I sort of support the global warming fearmongering. For one, it will force crooked corporations to stop ruining the environment for everyone and everything else. No matter what happens, making the earth a cleaner place is always a good idea. Second, it will bring new competition into badly needed markets. I'd love to be able to give my money to someone other than the big oil tycoons for a change. Third, it stimulates the economy. There's nothing like telling people the earth will be virtually uninhabitable in 50 years to make people spend some cash.
In conclusion, we can just go traipsing off after every new popular scare. We have to approach this in an intelligent way. But we must approach it, we can't just put it off forever.
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