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Originally posted by Pooeypants
Shouldn't all major polluting countries ratify the Kyoto Treaty? |
Sure they should, but they're (mostly) run by politicians whose precious careers don't allow them to think in terms other than short-term political gain: on no account alarm your voters by suggesting that there's no such thing as a free lunch. Only when seawater starts lapping up over people's front doors will it suddenly occur to them to take action. But it will be too late. Probably already is.
The news ain't good.
The Guardian recently had this cheery warning:
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Some scientists (fear) that the greater than normal rises in C02 emissions mean that instead of decades to bring global warming under control we may have only a few years. At worst, the figures could be the first sign of the breakdown in the Earth's natural systems for absorbing the gas.
That would herald the so-called "runaway greenhouse effect", where the planet's soaring temperature becomes impossible to contain. As the icecaps melt, less sunlight is refected back into space from ice and snow, and bare rocks begin to absorb more heat. This is already happening. |