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Quote by: xyzer  200 years ago there wasn't enough industrializton and anthropogenic CO2 created to influence anything? What are you talking about? It wasn't til' after WW2 that industrialization boomed.
Dunfunkin speaks with 'straight tongue"! We've yet to have convincing evidence that humans are the main influencer on warming? As more scientific study in undertaken we may find we are responsible or may not be responsible? The debate is far from over!
You, Gore and others are basing you frenetic beliefs on a correlation between the warming trend and an increase in human caused CO2 emissions? Human caused CO2 emissions are some small fraction of the 1% total CO2 gas in the earths atmosphere? Considering the other natural influences on climate(the Sun, its rays and magnetic changes, cosmic particles, continetal drift, the earths eliptical orbit and wobbles around its axis, ocean currents, atmospheric moisture and cloud effects,volcanic actions and other natural(NON MANMADE) influences you'r stretching creditiblity? |
I'm all for this global warming stuff though. After more than a decade of severe drought here in the desert southwest, northern New Mexico is mostly a 'disaster area' due to all the snow. Elephant Butte lake, our state's largest, was down to a 10th of capacity with experts predicting at least 20 years of normal precipitation necessary to refill it. I think it might exceed normal levels this spring. We are in an El Nino year that was supposed to create a warmer than normal winter and well below normal precip. The opposite has occurred.
I sure hope experts on other things are more accurate than they have been on long term climate change or even shorter term climate conditions. The fact is, we have ALWAYS had new records for highs and low in every year and will probably continue to do so for as far ahead as we can see. It happened before global warming, it is happening during any global warming, and it will happen long after the global warming crisis is no longer a crisis.
Meanwhile, lets focus on increasing benefits to humankind in general when it is absolutely obvious we have no power to change long range climate shifts.