Thread: Any doubts about Climate Change?

Originally Posted by sabang

The bottom line is, can the human race get it's act together, and do much about it? Personally I doubt it.

Not a chance, which is why i totally dropped out of the debate long time ago. Too much money/vested interest spreading too much disinformation to too many greedy morons.

It's past the point of salvaging anyhow.

There are too many stupid, greedy and self-centred people for the race as a whole to get it's act together......for a long time, anyhow. For instance, the Australian government is imposing a carbon tax whilst selling billions of tons of coal to China.
They CANNOT stop selling coal....it would financially ruin too many people.
The only hope for the world at large is that there are various homeostatic biological feedback mechanisms in place. They may keep the earth balanced longer than expected. But we simply don't know. If a tipping point is reached, things may accelerate out of hand. For instance the Arctic tundra is warming, which releases methane, which is a potent greenhouse gas (much more so than CO2).
Bangkok is HOW many feet above sea level ???

Originally Posted by FlyFree

Originally Posted by sabang

The bottom line is, can the human race get it's act together, and do much about it? Personally I doubt it.

Not a chance, which is why i totally dropped out of the debate long time ago. Too much money/vested interest spreading too much disinformation to too many greedy morons.

It's past the point of salvaging anyhow.

My best guess (on insufficient data) is that we can. However we will need another 30 to 50 years to get our act together. That may be too late to avert significant change. But that does not mean we will go extinct.