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Originally Posted by hulkrogan
Just watched this tonight. Really disturbing, especially since its pretty much impossible to find much evidence out there disputing the numbers present. For those of you saying "We shouldn't rush into this, because it might just be cyclical" I present:
We are talking FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND years of evidence. We are nothing even close to CO2 levels experienced even in times of massive volcanic eruptions, meteor strikes, etc. I don't get how people can say this might be cyclical. Even if it is "just cyclical" we're screwed anyways if the earth heats up as much as it appears its going to, so we might as well do our best.
I also don't buy the "what a waste of money it will be if its not true". It reminds me of when people were saying how computers and robots would take everyone's jobs. It doesn't work that way. A move towards clean energy and the technologies it will take to reverse our course will create completely new industries with a lot of opportunity and a lot of money in them. I'm sure a lot of us in Calgary collecting oil stained pay cheques, myself included, would love to think this isn't happening and everything is going to be just fine for us, but I think you are fooling yourself. |
Many people have also come in here claiming the contrary, and no one has addressed the above graph or any points raised here.