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I came across this article claiming that EVEN IF countries with plans to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions succeed, the global temperature of the planet will still increase by 35°F and there isn't anything we can do to avoid it.

It's unsettling because it makes you wonder... we're going through all this trouble to try and reduce our carbon footprint and for what? I suppose it's better than nothing, though. It's just a little discouraging when you feel it's an uphill battle that can't get any better.

What do you guys think?

Source: Sustainable Development | Global tempera...ty does not act

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I don't know. 35 degrees by when? This is one study. It's true that even if we were to stop C02 emission right now, warming would continue for some time. 35 degrees seems a lot, though - but by when? 100 years out? 200? There's not enough information in that short article to draw any conclusions and it's only one study. You may want to peruse the IPCC site.

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Well, I think that what we've done to our mother earth is now coming back to us. I am from the Philippines and because of climate change there are a lot of provinces here that are suffering from typhoons and some even died of that disaster, loss their homes, livelihood, business and also lives. They also said that there will be a part of the country that would sink or is below sea level. What's happening....


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Nonsense! The planet has been stable and, in fact, cooling for the past 10 years.
The so-called "greenhouse effect", which climatologists use to describe the fictitious temperature difference between a planet without an atmosphere and planet earth is only 33 degrees Celsius.

Global Warming, as defined, is a provable scientific fraud. It is a swindle designed by the United Nations to control the worlds fossil fuel energy supplies. That is exactly what the "cap and trade" legislation proposed in the congress will do.

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It's just a bit swishy summer, that's all..

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to control the worlds fossil fuel energy supplies

You cannot control something, which you haven't. Iraq war was such attempt, instead. It started oil crisis in the same way, like Vietnam war before forty years.



On the left are food prices, on the right are oil prices. Vietnam war finished in 1976, Iraq war has finished in 2006.


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I think that this article may actually be true and maybe there's nothing we can do about it, because it's too late for undoing damages that have been done.

The thing we can do about this is, for us to try to live more green and just help our environment heal itself.

Of course, there's no harm in hoping that there's still a great chance of our mother earth regaining it's beauty and health with our help.





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We should be reducing our carbon output through innovative energy policies, while also steadily ramping up carbon capture and sequestration funding and study. Hopefully we can start to use these theories in the near future.


Nuclear power is the pragmatic energy choice.

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