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Takeda Shingen · 08-10-06, 07:24 AM

A year ago, I was as critical as many of you are now. Since that time, I have discovered a major shift has occured in the scientific community. There is no longer any meaningful debate as to whether global warming is real, and as to whether our industrial activies are greatly responsible. This was enough to turn me to a believer, in a moment of 'holy cow, this stuff is real'-type epiphany.

The vaunted 2005 report summary from the National Academy of Sciences: http://www4.nationalacademies.org/on...e?OpenDocument

It is the nature of humans and society to avoid and scrutinize serious problems as long as possible. Goodness knows that those problems are frightening enough. It was done with smog, and waterway pollution in the 1960's and 1970's. It was done with child laber in the late 19th and early 20th centurys. However, that window of blissful ignorance eventually has to close, and we are now nearing that point.

Have ye courage? Face the problem. It can be solved.

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Takeda Shingen Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2000 Posts: 8,643 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	A year ago, I was as critical as many of you are now. Since that time, I have discovered a major shift has occured in the scientific community. There is no longer any meaningful debate as to whether global warming is real, and as to whether our industrial activies are greatly responsible. This was enough to turn me to a believer, in a moment of 'holy cow, this stuff is real'-type epiphany. The vaunted 2005 report summary from the National Academy of Sciences: http://www4.nationalacademies.org/on...e?OpenDocument It is the nature of humans and society to avoid and scrutinize serious problems as long as possible. Goodness knows that those problems are frightening enough. It was done with smog, and waterway pollution in the 1960's and 1970's. It was done with child laber in the late 19th and early 20th centurys. However, that window of blissful ignorance eventually has to close, and we are now nearing that point. Have ye courage? Face the problem. It can be solved.