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Skriven 2006-06-02 21:30:00 av Robert E Starr JR (1838.babylon5)
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On Wed, 31 May 2006 00:37:37 +0000 (UTC), Matt Ion
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>Funny, I was just thinking the same thing... or put another way:
>5. If global warming is a problem, CAN we even fix it, assuming we ARE 
>responsible?

This is why we must act now. Global warming /isn't/ reversible, not in
a reasonable time -- the CO2 we're putting in the atmosphere now will
stay there, give or take some (there's some evidence that plants may
metabolize more rapidly and absorb part of the difference), and will
still be there many years from now.

What we /can/ do is stop adding more greenhouse gases and making the
problem worse. And that can make a huge difference, the difference
between consequences that are affordable and consequences that aren't,
between extinctions and massive extinctions, between taking immensely
costly economy-damaging emergency steps to stop greenhouse gas
production and the economically benign ones we could take now.

>If it's a part of a natural climatological trend, that means our input 
>into is is probably minimal, and any attempts to counteract it would 
>likely be equally minimal.

True, but it's now known that it isn't natural, which isn't
surprising, since this warming period doesn't look anything like the
ones in the past -- it's a lot faster.

-- 
Josh

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