at the presenrt time it is probably correct to say that global warming is now known and accepted to be a cataclysmic threat to life on earth. if this is so......how long do we have before it is .......THE END! a decade, a generation, a lifetime? how long?
well its still up to us. just because there's a real problem doesn't mean its irriversable. we don't know where the point it becomes irreversable is. we MAY have already passed it. but we also may not. and i prefer to act as if there is hope, because only by doing so can there be any. what i think is more important is that we CAN do something about it, that is at the level of national energy, transportation and population policy. the problem is the level of the use of combustion times the number of us using and using the products, of it. we need to reverse this 'race to the bottom' that economic interests have set up. and this is something, where it really is about policy on a larger scale then turning off a light switch at home. those who can afford it, to buy solar panels and windmills is a good thing, and get cogeneration credits pumping energy back into the grid instead of only sucking out of it. but its a balot box issue where the most good can be done, and of course the other balot box, the one that's always counted, the cash register. we don't have to choose to doom ourselves. really we don't. unless we already have. and if we have, we're a long ways from knowing that for sure yet. we COULD loose the arctic ice cap by the summer of 2013. but it doesn't HAVE to happen. what does and will happen is that 40 years from now, no one is going to be driving a car that is propelled by a petrolium fueled engine. that isn't an end of anything though. right now there could be all the tecnology, infrastructure and comfort zone we ever want, more even then we already have, without the automobile, the burning of anything to generate electrical power, or our currently excessive human birthrates. but we've GOT to get those policy chainges implimented to do so. =^^= .../\...
We have the know-how to prevent really serious negative consequences related to global warming. Even under the worst case scenarios we don't expect an end to the world, but on the other hand, if we have to be faced with "the end of the world" to act there has to be something very wrong with us Judging by other mammal species, if we end up living (as a species) an average amount of time, we have around a million years left, as a species. Chris
Well if you factor in that scientists are only predicting an increase of 7 degrees in a time span of several centuries, I'd have to go with many lifetimes. Interesting article from National Geographic: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/071025-global-warming.html
I don't honestly think that anyone can say how long we've got left man. But the fact is if we don't do something to stop this heat spread then no one will man. I'm not some scientist in D.C., I'm not some fat-ass senator sitting at home watching the Office, an' I'm not the president who is standing around ordering innocent people's deaths an' playin' like I'm God man. But what I am is a young adult who wants to see some changes for the better in our world. Maybe if we all started riding bikes everywhere instead of cars. Oh hell man I just got a good idea for a protest man! Peace an' check the Boycott forums for my new idea man.
global warming has been around since the beginning of time man, it was cataclysmic back in the ice age, it was catclysmic during evolution if you believe that, it was catclysmic in the 90's man..it will always be here, its just the way the world is letting us know whats going on..did we cause this? I read somewhere we contribute about .0000002% of the pollution to this whole global warming thing. I think that our problem is our destruction..trees are being taken down, oil is being taken that cools the earth, fuels and carbons are polluting, toxins and poison from landfills, mining...all these things since we started building..look at our "green" cars...do you know how we make the batteries? mining nickel, which in turn destroys everything around this mine, theres actual a topic on that in this forum. ethanol gas from corn, are you kidding? you would need a corn crop THE SIZE OF TEXAS to supply enough gas to a certain amount of people...global warming is nautral..it will happen if we contribute to it or not..we have the know-how to do what? destruct MORE things to help disipate some heat by building things made out of metal,iron,steel,nickel? nothing is man made anymore, yet look at the chinese...they are using glass bottles,plastic bottles, for water heaters, and other such things...they got it down man, while america is wasting away, china will have it down...
