Posted by Guy on June 24, 2007, at 10:27:09
In reply to What if?, posted by Guy on June 23, 2007, at 12:20:52
To blithely lump climate change together with chicken little stories does a huge disservice the mountains of scientific evidence that have been accumulated in recent years. The ozone problem is slowing being resolved because governments worked together to eliminate the offending agent (CFC's) and because a substitute was readily available. The global warming problem is infinitely more difficult to tackle because fossil fuels are intertwined with the very fabric our lives--from the food we eat, to the clothes we wear to the way we get around. Also, there is no substitute that will allow us to maintain business as usual. The bottom line is over-consumption by humans and the burning of hundreds of millions of years of dead plants and animals. Nature sequestered the carbon in the ground for a reason...it was never meant to be dug up and burned. If you think GW is not a problem, just look at what is happening to every glacier on the planet, to the coral reefs, to large parts of Australia, to the boreal forests of Canada (massive pine beetle infestations), etc., etc. Please, do some reading before you dismiss GW as a false alarm.
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