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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote]DL-44 said:Given the evidence out there I don't think it is remotely plausible to deny that we have had an impact, and that it is not going to be a positive one.[/quote] I disagree in part. While now or lately the proof may show something happened or is happeneing, I don't believe it to guarantee that it will be any sort of starting point for anything permanently done to the Planet. In the entire scope of this planets age, this might be a sudden increase in temperature for reasons we don't know, and no I don't mean religious reasons. What it might simply be is that the temperature has rose, we have noticed it, but it might be a regular occurance that we don't really quite understand. Not unlike a womans period. [quote]DL-44 said:Also note: they are not saying that temperatures over the last 400 years have been warmer - they are saying that the last few decades have been warmer than any time in the last 400 years.[/quote] Yet isn't that also an average of temperatures based on several different readings from different altitudes or underground temperatures, and NOT from everywhere in the world? I mean when do averages of averages become such an agreed upon fact? Where are the variances? " But it is not clear that human activity is wholly responsible. The Washington Policy Center reports that Mount Rainier in Washington state grew cooler each year from 1960 to 2003, warming only in 2004. And Mars is warming significantly. NASA reported last September that the red planet's south polar ice cap has been shrinking for six years. As far as we know few Martians drive SUVs or heat their homes with coal, so its ice caps are being melted by the sun--just as our Earth's are. " Not to mention the almost impossible goals of the Kyoto protocal. Sure the US is out but we still have our own rules to follow, and those ain't half bad compared to some existing countries standards. " As The Wall Street Journal recently pointed out, almost none of the nations that signed on are meeting Kyoto's requirements. Thirteen of the original 15 European signatories will likely miss the 2010 emission reduction targets. Spain will miss its target by 33 percentage points and Denmark by 25 points. Targets aside, Greece and Canada have seen their emissions rise by 23% and 24%, respectively, since 1990. As for America, our emissions have increased 16%, so we are doing better than many of the Kyoto nations. " [url]http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pdupont/?id=110008113[/url] And still after all that I do want to conserve and do whatever I can to help stop whatever I might be doing to add to this warming. It hit 100 here for a new record. Of course that's just one day of 365 of over 100 hundred years since they began keeping records, but of course it's still a fact.:p Loading...
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