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[UNDEAD 1]

THIS IS ALARMING!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060915/sc_nm/...ent_arctic_dc_1

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Layin pipe! haha... Now thats a living! Whats happening is really scarey! I wish society would catch up to the reality of the situation and start making good decisions. Because of the economics of energy, any significant change must be made at a policy level. And with China anything we do won't matter much anyway cause they will use up whatever we don't.
Hard to see a way out of this one.

[Stickman]

Hard to see a way out of this one.

It's even worse than you think.

At the same time that fossil fuel use is raising CO2 levels and warming the planet, all the pollution generated by the fossil fuel use is acting to cool things off, as it reflects incoming solar radiation back into space. If we don't stop burning so much fossil fuels, we're screwed. However, when/if we DO stop burning them, the smog will dissapear within a few years, while the greenhouse gasses will remain for centuries at least. The result: stopping the burning of fossil fuels will cause global warming to get WORSE for a few hundred years before it starts to get better. The longer we wait before eliminating fossil fuel use, the worse this will become.

About the only certainty in all this is that our descendants will hate us for our greed and stupidity. One thing I wonder about: who will they hate more? Those that know about the problem but keep driving their SUV's anyway, or those that refuse to acknowledge global warming despite the overwhelming evidence supporting it?