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Global Warming  

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  1. 1. In your opinion, is Global Warming happening (ie, is the global temperature rising)

    • Yes
      66
    • No
      15

  2. 2. Can we stop Global Warming?

    • Yes
      36
    • No
      45

  3. 3. Are we causing global warming as a whole, or merely exacerbating it

    • We are the only cause of it
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    • We are not responsible at all
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    • We are exacerbating it, but not the only cause
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killbot1000
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Earth will PHYSICALLY be here for another 4 billion years or so. But most estimates have the Earths remaining life sustaining ability pegged at around 400-500 million years from now. The MAIN reason for this is that the sun has just passed its mid-life, and at this point, many stars begin to slowly get brighter and hotter, not like when a sun turns into a gas giant or anything, but enough to have an effect on earth. What will eventually happen is that the earth's deserts (as they have already begun to do) will just spread (again this is over the course of millions of years).

 

The increased heat begins to have an influence on the deserts of earth and they will begin to spread, over the course of hundreds of millions of years, the earth's life-sustaining capability begins to decrease, climates will generally get dryer and harsher. Our oceans will evaporate, hence causing the death of algae and plankton, hence causing the death of oxygen producing organisms on earth. This will lead to a slow but steady decline in the amount of breathable oxygen on the earth until there is very little oxygen. At present, the earth is the equivalent of a very healthy 68 year old human being, its still got a lot of good years left, but its at the end of its life.

 

When it comes to global warming, its happening, whether humans have an input or not. What we need to do is to try to reverse it, or slow it down, for our own sakes, whether or not we are causing it does not matter, what REALLY matters is turning this trend around so that the earth can remain healthy for generations to come. It's in our best interests to care, whether or not we are causing it.

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killbot1000
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How are SUVs causing the ice caps on Mars to melt, is my question?

 

They're not...Mars is a completely different planet, do not compare Earth to Mars, Mars could have sublimation of its ice caps for completely different reasons than the MELTING of our icecaps. Do not compare the two, they are not related.

 

Also, it doesn't matter if Humans are the cause or not, the point is that it will disrupt the global climate of the earth. Rather than make the problem worse, we should try to reverse it, or keep it where it is, not simply say "its not our fault, therefore lets keep pumping {censored} into the atmosphere".

 

The earth is not simply there for us to take everything we can from it as fast as we can, it is an ecosystem, a system for life. By simply even existing in our modern society we are throwing wrenches into the machine that is the earth, hoping that a wrench doesn't get stuck in the gears.

 

I am not advocating the elimination of modern society, I am simply advocating reducing the number of wrenches that we throw into the gears of the machine (which is earth).

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Maxintosh
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It's in our best interests to care, whether or not we are causing it.

I agree 100% BUT it's going to be an uphill battle when countries like china are building pollution generating factories and power plants literally at a rate of several per week. The Beijing Olympics are our only real chance to expose and pressure them into doing something responsible.

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killbot1000
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Anyone see the news last night about the evictions taking place? I really hope this kinda becomes a publicity bombshell for China.....

 

China is also trying to control the weather by shooting anti-air guns with chemicals into the atmosphere, absolutely insane...

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