31-03-2014, 01:44 PM
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Global warming - irrefutable
Well, it seems the people who believed that the recent climate change was just a periodic blip in the grand scheme of things were wrong. Global warming is here and will impact on everyone.BBC News
Climate impacts 'overwhelming' - UN
31-03-2014, 02:18 PM
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Re: Global warming - irrefutable
Originally Posted by Alan Cooke
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Thank goodness I won't be around when things really get serious. Are we heading towards a planet which cannot sustain a human population ?
That's 'mankind' for ya - greed and excess - stripping all the goodness away
31-03-2014, 02:50 PM
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Re: Global warming - irrefutable
Originally Posted by Julie1962
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I don't think anyone denied global warming is happening it's the cause we dispute. Natural cycles of the earth cannot be affected by stopping me putting my heating on or taking a shower or driving my car.
Global warming isn't about any natural cycle but the result of our population explosion and the amount of gases we have thrown up willy nilly in to the atmosphere.
Originally Posted by BBC News
There is nothing inevitable about the worst impacts on people and nature, Dr Field says. We can cut emissions to reduce the risks of catastrophe and adapt to some changes that will inevitably occur.We have to re-frame climate change as an exciting challenge for the most creative minds.
Cutting local air pollution from, say coal, can also reduce carbon emissions that cause warming; creating decent homes for poor people in countries like Bangladesh can improve lives whilst removing them from the path of flood surges.
31-03-2014, 03:03 PM
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Re: Global warming - irrefutable
Originally Posted by Julie1962
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Well we can't both be right and neither of us will live to see the end and find out what actually caused it so I will carry on as normal unless someone can offer me definitive proof I am wrong.
Take for instance the electricity you consume, it might well have been created by a coal fired power station (unlikely now but at one time yes), or the metal in your car in huge smelly iron and steel works - not here so much anymore but in China and other developing countries the pollution is absolutely appalling. So the stuff we consume or use might well have created a great deal of atmospheric pollution at one time or other and still is probably. So in a way we are all to blame but more so the guys in charge who should know better, or should have known better.
I don't suppose many have taken global warming seriously so no-one is really to blame. Politicians and industrialists will be judged on how they behave from this point on. Do they carry on regardless or take stock of the situation? According to the report the fiscal price to pay is enormous.
31-03-2014, 03:34 PM
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Re: Global warming - irrefutable
What is irrefutable regardless of the cause, is that Britain cannot solve any problems on a global scale unilaterally. Without the huge polluters getting on board, and I won't hold my breath on that one, then we as a nation are powerless and impotent.My personal feeling though is that if all the world's scientists agree that the world is warming then I am rushing out now to buy more sweaters to combat the imminent ice age.....
31-03-2014, 03:37 PM
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Re: Global warming - irrefutable
Originally Posted by plantman
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My personal feeling though is that if all the world's scientists agree that the world is warming then I am rushing out now to buy more sweaters to combat the imminent ice age.....
31-03-2014, 03:44 PM
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Re: Global warming - irrefutable
Originally Posted by plantman
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What is irrefutable regardless of the cause, is that Britain cannot solve any problems on a global scale unilaterally. Without the huge polluters getting on board, and I won't hold my breath on that one, then we as a nation are powerless and impotent. My personal feeling though is that if all the world's scientists agree that the world is warming then I am rushing out now to buy more sweaters to combat the imminent ice age.....
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