Climate change: is the science really settled?

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Originally Posted by tadink

my greatest fear is: what if we're wrong? what if humans really do contribute to climate change and by the time we realize it, its too late?

seems imprudent to dump crap into the oceans, seems imprudent to continue to dump pollution from coal fired generation plants into the air, seems imprudent to sit in your car in your garage with the doors closed. Might this all just be the wrong thing to do?

Its not hard to imagine a clean environment, clean air, and renewable energy. Why wouldn't we do the right things?

td

it might already be too late

We wouldn't we do the right things because powerful economic interests like the coal and oil companies might suffer a little - look at sammy's spirited yet inane comments for example. He is loyal to his corporate masters at Tesoro.

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Originally Posted by Flieger

I'm just hoping the oil runs out soon. Or gets too hard to extract. That's the only thing that will stop people pumping the carbon that took millions of years to sequester back into the atmosphere in a matter of hundreds.

go gas - it is getting easier & cheaper to extract and makes a good near-term step in reducing all sorts of pollution if done correctly

Coal is the very worst thing to burn to make electricity in all sorts of pollutants. It's cheap tho - as long as you do not account for the health effects.

Heavy petro products like bunker fuel are probably next worst.