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RE: amusing
By JediJeb on 3/3/2011 3:54:31 PM , Rating: 2
What if it is discovered that the position of the Continental Plates is the cause, should we then devote our full effort into trying to freeze them in place so they never move again?

In the past CO2 levels have been higher with lower temperatures than now, also temperatures have been higher with lower CO2 levels than we have now, so can we be certain humans are causing the warming simply because we emit CO2? Also how can we predict with certainty that the warming will become exponential? What if as the warming accelerates the flow of fresh water from ice melting shuts down the ocean currents and drives us into another ice age? Did they plug the millions of possible variables into the equations to support the conclusion of exponential warming or did they use only a few?

Man should take a lesson from past history and understand that climate has never been "stable" for very long at a stretch and take steps to adapt or we will have to suffer more when the consequences finally hit. We build cities along shorelines which we know have changed in the past with higher and lower sea levels yet we think that since we have established our presence there the shorelines should now never change because we can not tolerate such disobedience from nature. Man once crossed on dry land from Russia into North America, if he had built a city the size of New York along the shore line then, where would it be now? Under water just like New York will be some day as nature has its way with mankind. If instead we suddenly change from warming to cooling and the major coastal cities are then land locked with no ports because sea levels have fallen, will man they cry that we need to melt the polar caps so they can continue shipping goods into their ports without having to move the ports out to the water?

Mankind is not big enough to control the Earth, and until we understand that, we are doomed to a short existence. Adapt and survive, whine and complain only leads to extinction.

