You keep going on and on about this, and how the Earth has not gotten warmer in the last 10 years or so.
When you look at the history of the Earth, it is BILLIONS of years old. Over time, there have been periods of warming and periods of cooling. During a 'warming period' not every year would have been warmer than the previous. Not to mention that 10 years over the span of millions is not even the equivalent of the 'blink of an eye' Take a look at this chart - http://www.daviesand.com/Choices/Precautionary_Planning/New_Data/IceCores1.gifit shows a relationship between CO2 levels and temperature. You can see that even during 'cooling trends' there were 'spikes' where it was warmer, but the overall trend was that it was getting cooler. The same can be said of the 'warming' periods and 'dips' where it was cooler, but the overall trend was that it was getting warmer. The thing that concerns me about that graph is the CO2 level at the far right of the graph. It is higher than at any other time that we can determine. I think it is a safe assumption that the big 'spike' on the right side of the graph is from humans. If you believe otherwise, you are foolish. The debate is what will happen because of those increased levels of CO2. And I don't think anyone can say with any level of certainty what will happen. But, if you think that we can continue to pump that mush C)2 int the atmosphere and not suffer some kind of side effects, you are also being foolish. So, my feeling is, regardless of what will happen with the climate, we, as a species, should be trying to reduce the levels of CO2. Why? Because we don't know what will happen. If we reduce our CO2 emissions and nothing would have happened anyway, the worst result is that we leave the planet in better shape. If we do nothing about CO2 emissions and it will cause the problems that some predict, well, then we are screwed. I think I want ot error on the side of caution on this one. On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > > You mean the fact that the NYT still pretends Climate Change is real? Wait > until the see the new IPCC report than they'll really feel stupid. > > . > > > -- Scott Stroz --------------- You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can wonder what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. Phil Harris http://xkcd.com/386/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:367110 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
