09-12-2002, 12:59 PM
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Originally posted by Suzaku:
Perhaps you misunderstand what Global Warming is. It is the definitive average warming of the climate, not just regional rises and fluctuations of temperature. It is the world average temperature recorded throught the world around the year. And yes, it is rising. And if u refuse to believe that, then maybe this will; C02 concentrations in the atmosphere are HIGHEST in the past 42000 years, by examination of polar ice layers on studying the past accumulation of snow and climate samples.
Global warming is not only in the atmosphere. As MagiK said, pro-technology is
stuff like nuclear reactors right? You know what thermal pollution comes out of those suckers right? The ocean water is used as coolant, and as a result gets warmed, and thrown back into the ocean, and ppl think it's fine because the ocean is so huge. Now ocean temperatures are rising world-wide due to this kind of actions.
You can't deny the basic actions, now it's up to you to decide whether you want to ignore and run from these problems, or face them and fix them for our comtinued existance. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what's happening out there...
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You are right, everything we do will have a result, but on a global scale, all the heat pollution of all the nuclear reactors in the world doesnt even compare to a single geothermal event called a volcano. Hot springs, geothermal vents above and below sea level, sunlight all have bigger impacts than man, because they are ALL much larger in scope. Mans total wattage output is miniscule compared to the total hitting it every day just from the sun. I don't mind working toward cleaner cheaper energy sources and fission reactors are not good mostly because of their wastage. Solar is better but is years away, so is fusion. Unless we kill of 4 or 5 billion of the 6 billion of us around you are just gonna have to face the fact that we do have to deal with the fact that we do have some impact.
(and if you want to reduce world population I heartily invite you to take steps to reduce it...say sterilize yourself, and if you are in an extreme fit over "over population" Im pretty sure you could lead with a demonstration of dedication and leave the ranks of the living [img]smile.gif[/img] By the way I limited myself to replacing me and my wife, then had myself sterilized so I walk the walk.)
No one is running away, there is just a choice of being chicken little running around being reactionary and alarmist about things, or you can behave in a more rational way and realize that we have cleaner industry than we did 200 years ago when millions of tons of soot was sprayed into the atmosphere from dirty innefficient coal burning.
As for being agenius about what ius happening out there, there ARE a great many indicators that what is happening out there (re global warming) is a completely natural thing. The only problem is...if it is completely natural no one gets huge government grants and payoffs from industry to go away, no one gets to try and coerce huge cash payments to their favorite cause. You might want to look into why the founder of Green Peace left the organization some time.. I found it a very revealing and telling read.
[ 09-12-2002, 01:01 PM: Message edited by: MagiK ]
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