It's getting hot in here....so lets...read this article?Follow

Id rather spend money solving problems we face today, like the rampant hunger issues plaguing the world, issues that should have not existed since the Agricultural revolution, let alone the industrial revolution. I dunno, guess I am more of a realist and not into some spooky predictions of something that is completely hypothetical, and largely irrelevant.

Food production isn't the problem that leads to starvation. It's intentional. Societies in power need to maintain control over subject societies so they inflict varying degrees of stress on them. Sometimes letting thousands die through inaction, sometimes just killing them out of hand. How is the possibly not obvious given the history of mankind???

Maybe your company could start working on integrating advanced irrigation systems...

To help distribute what water is available, duh.


edit: wtf those smileys go?

Edited, Sep 21st 2012 4:41pm by Debalic

Creationist's Timeline, 6000 year old scale.



Jesus fits in right around the tail end of the Archaen era.

None of that had anything to do with what I said but, sure. Glad you got it out of your system

It's all right if you don't have to suffer?

It's all right if any of us here on the forum don't have to suffer?

The scientists who are saying ACC is happening have taken into account natural climate cycles the earth goes through, including the fact that we're geologically slowly coming out of an ice age. They have definitely taken into account that the sun is going through a "hot phase" and is putting out more sunlight onto the Earth than it was a hundred years ago. They've taken into consideration all the volcanic activity releasing CO2. They've taken into consideration every conceivable background, natural explanation for temperature fluctuations and they STILL come up with 50% of the temperature rise over the last hundred years coming from human release of CO2 from under the Earth into the atmosphere.

There are now 40 extremely sophisticated computer models running all over the world that all pretty much agree with each other on where ACC has come from, what it's done to the Earth right now, and what effects it'll have on the Earth if X amounts of more CO2 is released over Y period of time.

• The US is still number one in terms of per capita emissions among the big economies - with 18 tonnes emitted per person
• China, by contrast, emits under six tonnes per person, India only 1.38

~2012 figures

Considering China has more than three times our population (four?)...I think it's a valid concern.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/geekquinox/antarctic-sea-ice-record-high-doesn-t-disprove-185906522.html

TLDR we think a bunch of **** is going on, but we don't know we haven't experienced it before. But we are certain that Global warming is real...but it might not be. We don't know.

Even if you don't believe it's happening, why take the chance?

Not everything cuts into profits. A lot of green initiatives have excellent ROI's.

...and the two are comparative events how?

There is plenty of reason to wean ourselves off fossil fuels. The planet is already suffering from the effects of atmospheric changes due to increased levels of CO2. No need to 'wait and see' if it's going to happen. It has, it is, and will continue to do so. How much or how little the changing climate will impact you may be negligible, but there's no denying that burning fossil fuels is not sustainable, not healthy and is changing our atmosphere.

Human health effects of air pollution alone should have prompted us to continue to find better, cleaner and more efficient ways to create and use energy decades ago.