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jenks
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United Kingdom
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 Posted - 2007/02/23 : 02:07:52
You're kidding yourself mate, 99% of scientists will tell you that global warming is fact.
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'In its most recent assessment, IPCC states unequivocally that the consensus of scientific opinion is that Earth's climate is being affected by human activities'
The only scientists you'll find that disagree are the ones who are funded by big companies who stand to lose out, this only seems to be going on in North America however...
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whispering
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Posted - 2007/02/23 : 07:10:13
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Originally posted by Dain-Ja:
Global warming might exist - the question is whether it's man-made or not. At this point there is NO consensus amongst the scientific community so we can't say it is.
Its man made, theres no doubt about it. This has been proved by all scientific surveys. Besides saying we shouldnt do anything because its not fully man made would be like saying, that meteor thats going to hit earth, we really shouldnt do anything about it, 'cause it wasnt man made. You dont throw gasolin to your house when its on fire. Due to nature the heat goes up and down in cycles, its true. But, now it goes higher then ever before, it changes the climate in a scale and speed, that the results are impossible to fully know. What we do know, if we dont do anything, just the rising sea level will result in 100's of millions of enviroment refugees.
From wiki:
This figure shows the variations in concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere during the last 400 thousand years. Throughout most of the record, the largest changes can be related to glacial/interglacial cycles within the current ice age. Although the glacial cycles are most directly caused by changes in the Earth's orbit (i.e. Milankovitch cycles), these changes also influence the carbon cycle, which in turn feeds back into the glacial system.
Since the Industrial Revolution, circa 1800, the burning of fossil fuels has caused a dramatic increase of CO2 in the atmosphere, reaching levels unprecedented in the last 400 thousand years. This increase has been implicated as a primary cause of global warming.
Global annual fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions, in million metric tons of carbon, as reported by the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center.
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