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This was probably the best global warming cartoon I’ve seen.\u00a0 I caught it in yesterday’s USA today which I only read while I’m in the airport for some reason.\u00a0 There should be another guy asking, “But what if it’s true and we don’t do anything.”\u00a0 And then they’ll have a guy on the stage with a list of catastrophic events like\u00a0ramped disease,\u00a0hightened\u00a0natural disasters, and cities under water.\u00a0 That would be funny.<\/p>\n
But seriously, forget about all the benefits of climate change mitigation and think about the potential effects of global warming, they could\u00a0totally ruin us.\u00a0 So basically, the risk of not doing anything is\u00a0huge\u00a0and the risk of doing something is, well, nothing.\u00a0 I really have a lot of difficultly\u00a0listening to flat Earthers cry about some hoax or conspiracy.\u00a0 If we don’t curb climate change and the potential effects that come with it, we’re going to have more problems than Tiger Woods’ marriage.<\/p>\n
In fact, a few extramarital transgressions will be the least of our problems because the greatest transgression of all will be too great to reverse – the pollution of the planet.\u00a0 The bottom line is that the Earth is warming.\u00a0 And while you could claim that this is some natural cycle of global temperature, you should first consider that the Earth’s average temperature is 14 degrees Celsius and it has gone up 1 degree Celsius over the past 150 years.\u00a0 That’s a 7% increase – and this is in only 150 years!\u00a0 Geologically speaking, 10,000 years is a nano second and 150\u00a0is a negligible amount of time.<\/p>\n
The following excerpt was taken from the website of the COP15 conference:<\/p>\n
At present the concentration of CO2<\/sub> in the atmosphere is about 385 ppm (parts per million). Before industrialization it was about 280 ppm. Analyses of air contained in ice from the Antarctic ice cap show that there is far more CO2<\/sub> in the air today than at any time in the last 650,000 years.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yesterday marked the beginning of the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference which is being held in Copenhagen, Denmark.\u00a0 Many are hoping for the conference to result in an ambitious agreement to reduce carbon emissions involving all countries of the World.\u00a0 In the very least it is a refreshing opportunity for leaders of the World to discuss a threat for which a unified effort is necessary.<\/p>\n
I’m personally not going to listen to any nay-sayers of the green movement or efforts to curb climate change because there is very little detrimental results that could come for any\u00a0approach at\u00a0reversing climate change – the risk of doing nothing is just far too great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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