JcP wrote:
There may only have been a ~1 degree rise but think about how much our fuel consumption has increased over the last hundred years. The effect of CO2 emissions isn't necessarily felt immediately, oceans absorb many of the suns rays re-emmited by greenhouse gases causing them to expand(over time due to their size.) Add to this the melting of the ice caps and of glaciers, and you can see how much of a problem it is.
Also, think how much of an effect that 1 degree has had. For the first time in centuries the North West Passage is ice-free. The frequency of natural disasters has increased and thousands have died. The people living on low lying Indonesian islands have been forced to leave as their homes have become modern day Atlantis'. And that's just one degree...
The hundred years of records means we can predict how much sea levels will rise, and how much temperatures will increase. And they may only be higher, as our fuel consumption/emissions continues to increase. Predictions are that temperatures will rise ~8 degrees in Temperate Regions and ~5 degrees in the Tropics. Consider the effects of one degree and multiply it several times.
As for the idea that the Earth shifts in and out of ice ages, how long will it take to "research" this theory. The effects of global warming will be terrible, is caution not better when faced with such disaster? Is it not better to act now, especially when there is overwhelming evidence pointing to human influence as the major cause of global warming/climate change?
I understand that many of these people who make a fuss about climate change are hypocrites, but at least they admit it is a problem that must be tackled. If this type of person became leader, then did nothing about climate change because they were fear mongering, wouldn't there be a huge public outcry?
Once again, I am not denying that we need to be more conservative about human waste. Be it trash, emissions, etc.
Here. If this will make you feel better about the ice bridge.
Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa wrote:
Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, says the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than at this time last year.
OK, so one winter does not a climate make. It would be premature to claim an Ice Age is looming just because we have had one of our most brutal winters in decades.
With that being said...1 year vs 100 yrs. in relation to 4.5 BILLION years...is not really any different in proportion. You could make the same argument really over one day.
Sorry, I'm horrible at math, but i do understand proportions. 1/4500000000 and 100/4500000000 really aren't that different. When you look at it like that...how is it that we can be SO SURE that the data we have can be so conclusive. Also, how many meteors have struck the earth? how many volcanoes have erupted? How much carbon do you think has been put into the atmosphere from each of these? Over the span of 4.5 BILLION years, i could easily see it being almost as much as we have put into it in the last 100 years. Seriously man, I just refuse to be "SO DAMNED SURE" that we are making that much of an impact on such a little amount of data.
I'm not saying your wrong. I am just saying that we should have some more facts before I regress to the stone age living fearing that I will get a "green ticket" or something because i lit a fire to cook some food for my family.
Abraham Lincoln wrote:
You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
BTW, This is not how regular Americans think. So don't tell your friends in England that all Americans are dumb rednecks. I'm almost positive that I'm the only one.
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