Re: Another comment.shanexDecember 17 2008, 20:29:48 UTC
Good questions.
1) This has been proven to my satisfaction. Whether or not it's man-made is very much in doubt in my mind. But the fact that it is happening is something I no longer dispute.
2) I doubt it. Mankind has survived ice ages without technology. I'm sure we can get through a much more mild climate shift with our current abilities. Our physical bodies aren't in much danger from weather and temperature nowadays. A more likely effect would be on food production and sudden shifts in the economy as priorities shift on food production and distribution. And I'm certain it would be less economic disaster than our own bankers have recently brought us.
3) If the climate is changing regardless of what we're doing, then that means our entire industrial output is having negligible effect. So reducing it will not help. There may be some proactive thing we could do (like some form of direct repair or buffering of the climate), but nobody has invented it yet.
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As I see it, there are 3 questions:
1) Is the climate getting warmer?
2) Are we likely to have serious problems because of this?
3) Can we do anything about it?
The rest is irrelevant.
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1) This has been proven to my satisfaction. Whether or not it's man-made is very much in doubt in my mind. But the fact that it is happening is something I no longer dispute.
2) I doubt it. Mankind has survived ice ages without technology. I'm sure we can get through a much more mild climate shift with our current abilities. Our physical bodies aren't in much danger from weather and temperature nowadays. A more likely effect would be on food production and sudden shifts in the economy as priorities shift on food production and distribution. And I'm certain it would be less economic disaster than our own bankers have recently brought us.
3) If the climate is changing regardless of what we're doing, then that means our entire industrial output is having negligible effect. So reducing it will not help. There may be some proactive thing we could do (like some form of direct repair or buffering of the climate), but nobody has invented it yet.
-ATW
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