TheRealMafoo said:
How can the rate slow down if the factors that we are producing is going up?
If I press more on the gas pedal of a car, and accelerate at a slower speed then I was before, would you think the reduced acceleration was from providing the car with more power? |
I'll draw a comparable analogy.
The modern theory of evolution states that any specific adaptation will almost always evolve only once in the evolutionary chain. This is why you have incidences of mammals and birds both evolving four-chambered hearts independently, and birds and bats evolving wings independently. That doesn't mean that the theory of evolution is wrong.
Even the laws of physics are more probabalistic than rigid. Time is supposed to always go forward. But the laws of physics don't say that it has to move forward. They just say that it is highly unlikely that it will move backward. Its the same thing about the interaction of particles. A lot of bizarre and seemingly improbable things happen at the quantum level. But at the macroscopic level things seem relatively stable.
The graphs posted earlier show that the peak temperatures in this recent spell of climate change have been higher than in comparable upward shifts in the past. Isn't it the slightest bit concerning that it has happened at the exact same time as the largest man-made surge in CO2?
And the dumbest thing is that people act like there is some grand conspiracy that is designed to destroy the economy. Most of the things we would be doing to reduce man-made CO2 contribution would help out our economy anyways and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. We would be sending less money to terrorists. Iran, for instance, is incredibly dependent on its oil exportation. Reducing man-made CO2 emissions is helpful in just about every way socially, politically, and economically. And that's completely outside the environmental issue.
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