Talk:Global warming

It has been not too many years since the climate change talk was all about the coming ice age.

The current rage is to talk about the great hazards of global warming and what we are going to have to do to prevent the new catastrophe.

More about politics and how to manipulate populations, nations, special interest groups, etc. than about substantative methods.

Fly cross-country anywhere in the world to see how puny man and his activities are in the overall scheme of the whole world picture. After you have been around a few years and seen the bad actors go down the tubes you realize that whoever is gumming up the works today will be gone tomorrow or the day after.

Good times don't last forever but neither do the bad except for those who have destined themselve for the unknown.


 * 2006-07-15 19:14:41 NotSCar

Man may seem puny, but look at the percent of the dry land surface which remains unchanged vs. the percent occupied by man's activities. (need facts on this item...)

More importantly, look at the fact that CO2 concentration has doubled, probably due to human activity. Or if it has doubled due to some natural effect, still the consequences will be extreme. There isn't much CO2 in the atmosphere, but it has a big effect. Small changes can have big consequences. Anyway, the answer isn't to stop using fuel which makes CO2, but to produce enough energy via other means that we can remove as much CO2 from the atmosphere as we want, thereby controlling the CO2 concentration and keeping it exactly where we want it.
 * Archimerged 14:24, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Almost everything green contains chlorophyl changing CO2 into more growing plant matter via photosynthesis and releasing O2 to the atmosphere. Too much worry about CO2, not enough about conversion to fixed carbon and O2. NotSCar 17:48, 16 July 2006 (UTC)