steven787 said:
1) Huh? How do you know this? 2)Trillions of Dollars? Really? When? I am pretty sure trillions of dollars would have bought us all Air powered cars by now. 3) Huh? 4) In the US people will be more likely to vote for you if you deny Global Warming and say that Thomas Jefferson walked with the dinosaurs or the US brings democracy to the Middle East. |
1) I have never seen a single scientist say that if man was not on this planet, that the plant would not still be warming at this time. What is up for debate is if humans are contributing to that number. Well, we all know they are. The question is to what degree. If it's .0001%, who cares. if it's 30%, we care. No one can tell you how much we contribute, because no one knows.
2) Yes. If the US were to follow the rules set by Kyoto Accord, it would cost us trillions. And we still have no clue how much we contribute, or how much it would reduce the trend (again, we will still get warmer, just possibly at a slower rate).
3) Oceans are going to rise, crops are going to grow differently, the sun will effect us in different ways. We should put or efforts into what we should do about these things (along with a hundred other factors of living in a world several degrees warmer).
4) The way the political game is played, is first you create a crisis and then you claim you can solve it. For Bill Clinton is was the medical industry, for Bush it was education, and now for Obama, it's "change" (whatever that means). Global warming is a great cause (because it scares people) to be able to say you can help solve. First however, you have to convince voters that it's solvable (which it isn't).
