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Quote by: Will In response to your previous thread, even if you continue to believe Global Warming is completely man-made, it will hurt our society and economy if we go to such extremes that many people state as necessary. |
Number one, it will hurt our society far more if we allow Global Warming to proceed unchecked, eventually threatening life on Earth as we know it.
Number two, you don't know that... in fact, change can be a hugely beneficial thing. Folks could make fortunes off of new innovations for energy, the U.S. could once again take the lead in technology, with the world clamoring at our door for new innovations, rather than, as it appears, clamoring at Asia and Europe's doors. We'd rid ourselves of our trade deficit, which is comprised mostly of imported oil, we'd rid ourselves on dependence of oil producing nations that hate us and are inherently unstable, and of dependence on oil resources that, by every estimate, are about to run out anyway!!!
What happens then, Will?
Or are you still upset about all the buggy whip makers, saddle makers, livery stable owners, horse wranglers, blacksmiths, buggy makers, horse poop sweepers and cavalry officers that were thrown out of work when, in ust a few decades, the steam age was replaced by the automobile age?
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Quote by: Xyzer Answer the question? CO2 is being increased by humans,, how come it is getting globally cooler in the past few years by actual measurement? |
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question has been answered SEVERAL TIMES, Xyzer.
From the link...
"Here we can see cooling trends from 1880 to 1910, about 30 years, a dramatic rise for about 30 years (1910 to 1940) another cooling - more like a leveling off - from 1940 to 1975 (35 years) and another dramatic rise from 1975 to now, about 30 years." 
Even within the latest dramatic rise has been regular fluctuations... up dramatically from 1975 to 1980, leveling down from 1980 to 1985, up dramatically from 1985 to 1990, leveling down from 1990 to 1995, up dramatically from 1995 to 2000,
leveling down from 2000 to 2005.
Here, does
this V work for you??? It's a chart of
the sunspot cycle, which seems to line up very nicely with the small, regular spikes in global temperature. Hmmm, looking at the page, I think we can expect a dramatic temperature raise over the next five years. Here's my hundred bucks... who's in?
Get it? So knock it off.
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