maybe obama will sign the kyoto protocol

[maks]

too bad we're living at the end of an ice age and there's no evidence that humans are the cause of rising temperatures

[timmy]

too bad we're living at the end of an ice age and there's no evidence that humans are the cause of rising temperatures

exactly...
ice ages and warm ages come and go regardless if we're polluting or not...
the only question is "are we speeding up the inevitable"..

[maks]

maks you're about the only one on this forum with a brain.

yeah I'm used to that

exactly...
ice ages and warm ages come and go regardless if we're polluting or not...
the only question is "are we speeding up the inevitable"..

I think we're pretty arrogant to believe we're causing geologic events that were happening for billions of years before we evolved, it's pretty much the new version of religion, man drastically overestimating his importance

[blumpkin blownuts]

incidental co2 releases are compensated for by temporary increases in the biomass of marine flora, which rebalance the carbon cycle within a few years
sustained releases can't be easily remediated by this mechanism

what's worse are the increased releases of alkanes and halogenated alkanes which are much greater promoters of the greenhouse effect and can only be remediated by incredibly slow upper-atmospheric chemical processes