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Just fourty years ago, the same types of folks were screaming that an impending Ice Age was coming.... There wasn't internet to pass it on to everyone so it just faded away. They can't even get tomorrow's weather right, do you really think they can get the next century right? If you do, then I have a bridge that you need to buy that is going to be the only high ground around.....



A refreshing view, fogtender - and one which I agree with. What's missing in all the media hype and scare stories about CO2 and global warming is a view of the bigger picture. Many climatologists perform endless calculations trying to predict how much sea level will be affected by melting ice caused by this or that increase in temperature, while others point out that the thermal expansion of the top ocean layers would dwarf the icemelt effect.

As you say, there's very little we can do about it. Even if CO2 WERE responsible for the climate warming experienced over the last few decades, and even if the worlds' major countries were able to reduce CO2 emissions by say 10%, this would have virtually no effect. 10% of the 3% of atmospheric CO2 that mankind is responsible for is a VERY small proportion of the total. Worse than that, the relationship between CO2 levels and heating effect is logarithmic, so that complete removal of that 3% (which is of course impossible) would only result in about 1% reduction in the total heating effect of CO2.

Indeed, we're just along for the ride, and the way I see it, clinging on by our fingertips.
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