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byChris Katko ( 2923353 ) writes:
...A man has cancer, and and he's still getting sicker, but not sicker at a faster rate, so I'm sure he'll be just fine.
byCoren22 ( 1625475 ) writes:
If you thought it was easy to cure all the world's ills, wouldn't you expect it to of already happened?
The world doesn't stop on a dime, it takes time to switch to low CO2 technologies.
bySmidge204 ( 605297 ) writes:
More importantly, this strains the argument that green technologies threaten economic growth. That means dirtier fossil energy is a lot harder to justify, and renewable energy more appealing.
Could be the beginnings of a positive feedback loop. Here's hoping!
=Smidge=
byJBMcB ( 73720 ) writes:
It could also be a result of increased biomass eating up more CO2. Someone needs to compare biomass via satellite mapping with the usage levels of natural gas, wood, coal and oil.
byAnonymous Coward writes:
It can only be man's fault and CO2 is the only cause of any fluctuation of our climate.
It's telling too that they don't say anything about the global temperature in the report.
I'm always amused that people fall for the CO2 canard. I think CO2 levels can have some effect on the climate but to say it is the only reason is just wrong to me. CO2 isn't even the most abundant greenhouse gas. There are so many other influencing factors that we know of and I'm sure there are still others we don't know of that to si
byWGFCrafty ( 1062506 ) writes:
You're right it isn't ONLY CO2.
Man also produces many MANY other heat trapping gasses that by weight trap hundreds of times more heat.
Even if increasing CO2 levels don't directly lead to global warning (unlikely that it won't but there could be some reverse feedback mechanism we haven't recognized) it STILL will acidify our oceans when it dissolves as carbonic acid.
This is definitively man's fault. It will effect all of the animals that need calcium carbonate to make shells as it means that it is more easily dissolved in ocean water, weakening their shells and potentially killing them off. These animals (a whole lot of animals) are at the bottom of the food chain. Think of it as a food pyramid with us at the top. They are our foundation, and we are weakening it.
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