Is America ready?

[das1ngerplayer]

Originally Posted by Reach

Not out of control? Where are you getting this information? As far as from what I've read, it's already out of control and it probably isn't possible to stop it now.

The earth does go through heating and cooling cycles, but you're view is unrealistic. Our CO2 level contentration in the atmosphere is twice as high today as it has even been over the last million years. Projections say if the trend continues the levels will be up to 5 times higher by 2100.

The world is growing quickly, china and india going through industrial booms. The effects of global warming are not going to improve. Your so called cooling trend is going to come, but its not going to be pleasant. If anything the excess heat is going to trigger a pseudo iceage that will devastate the economy.

People feel immune to these sort of issues, as if they don't apply to them specifically or something...kind of like a teenager that just gets their liscence thinks they can speed and not get in an accident. This is a real issue. Changing the chemical composition of the planet is going to have consequences.

With that attitude who knows, maybe your iceage will come. You are views are unrealistic, not mine.

When you say 'projections' you're not using the definition of that word correctly (You might know what it means but I'll continue my point...). What scientists measure in CO2 levels in our atmosphere is only a very small portion of time. The whole 'global warming problem caused by CO2' idea is based on measurements from only a few years time (Maybe a decade but still not long). Much of science doesn't take into consideration that 1-technology is advanceing and there will be ways to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere and 2-it's still not 100% proven that CO2 is the main cause of the current warming cycle.

As for you idea of an iceage. The earth will begin to coll in future decades but far from any iceage. You need to stop over reacting, no iceage is going to come from CO2 as of now. I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm saying the way things are going now it's improbable.