[XCSSA] Man Made Global Warming Consensus A Farce?

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

Of course there are other factors and the earth will warm and cool  
because of them.  But the long term problem (100's of years)  
remains.  We won't have any ice unless we actually start reducing   
CO2.  We're at 360ppm now, up from 270ppm at the dawn of the  
industrial revolution and virtually flat for thousands of years prior  
to that, and it curves upward tracking our CO2 output.  Last time the  
earth was above 350ppm, which was 10 million years ago, there was no  
ice.  And when all the ice is finished melting, which may take  
awhile, the sea level will rise more than 200 feet because the ice is  
miles high on Antarctica and Antarctica is huge.  Economic recessions  
and depressions may reduce the rate of CO2 growth, but not stop or  
reverse it by any means, and there is enough coal in the world to do  
ourselves in.  Projections of CO2 level by the end of this century  
are in the 400ppm-600ppm range.  Doesn't that sound a little risky?

There's more than a "pretence" behind global warming theory.  There  
*is* a scientific establishment, such as the National Academy of  
Sciences in the USA, and similar organizations in other countries,  
and the UN panel which gets input from thousands of climatologists.   
And they all agree that Global Warming is a huge problem and that  
it's caused by human activities (using some typical conservative  
scientific language they say that the CO2 rise and global warming is  
"very likely" caused by human activity, there are a few gw critics on  
these panels, but they are a tiny minority and falling in number as  
more scientists are convinced).

Building renewable energy systems now will help the economy for most  
people, virtually everyone except the oil and coal barons.

Charles


On Jan 5, 2009, at 12:26 AM, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio  
wrote:

> Hey Charles (P.)..  Comments on this:
> 	
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/ 
> 3982101/2008-was-the-year-man-made-global-warming-was-disproved.html
>
> This has been a discussion at XCSSA in the past.. and I've never  
> been "sold"
> that global warming (as a scientifically provable fact) could be  
> linked to a
> human causality (iiutc).
>
> Tweeks
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