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Originally posted by Rob Tucker
Climate change is a very real thing. It has been happening, driven by natural forces, since there was a climate to change. We are in the tail-end of an ice-age. Visit the La Brea tar pits and see the wooly mammoths and sabre-tooth tigers skeletons that roamed this area just a short time (in geologic) terms ago. Go to Central Park and look at the scrape marks on solid granite caused by a hundreds of feet thick Ice Sheet that covered the area, again, recently (in geologic time).
Modern cars, BTW, produce so little CO that suicide in the manner you describe is difficult if not impossible.
Every facet of nature, animate, inanimate and otherwise has an impact on the environment. Whales poop, so do seals and millions of tons of animate biomass, both wet and dry. Yet the earth handles it all.
Occasionally, the earth belches more pollution in a relatively brief period, pollution and dust that alters the climate, that circles the globe, yet the planet keeps on chugging. Witness the series of Supervolcanoes that terminates at Yellowstone, Krakatoa, Mt. Rainier, St. Helens etc., Earth digests it all.
Do you really think that the climate change brought about by man's activities, as compared to climate change that occurs naturally on an on-going basis, is significant, or even measureable? We are emerging from an Ice Age that covered most of North America with an Ice Sheet hundreds if not thousands of feet thick. "Global warming" brought Earth out of it, just as global cooling put earth into it, but we, as a species, had barely invented the Camp Fire. A Temperature shift that is massive, and it was all by natural circumstances, and happened before, and will happen again.
While it goes unreported, there are many climate scientists who do NOT support the conclusions the ones you listen to dol
You and those of similar opinion remind me of a guy here in SoCal that had studied the Bible and was certain the apocalypse was just around the corner, even had the date. Millions believed him, some sent in their life-saving beforehand, but guess what...it never happened.
Similarly, nothing you have "swallowed" as certain to happen, will happen. You will be sitting in Puna watching "nothing" (except the next eruption) happen.
And, finally, even if I was certain man-made global warming was happening. I wouldn't change my lifestyle. The impact is just too minor to worry about. I only live once, and those that follow (if they follow), will deal with it using their advanced technologies. It is unrealistic and unfair to expect one generation to live for an as-yet non-existent generation. Who knows, perhaps Yellowstone super volcano will erupt next month and spoil mankind.
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