Global Warming

Tchocky · 02-09-07, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by waste gate

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Originally Posted by Tchocky

I'm confused. Barring active interference, how could action like emissions reductions & recycling do more damage than doing nothing?

@ waste gate - A large part of global warming involves increased weather extremes and volatility. It's putting the planet on speed rather than a sunbed.

I'm not sure what your second statement means.

Global warming is a misleading term. Climate change is more descriptive, although what is happening now is a definite rise in the average temperature of the planet. However, this doesnt mean that we'll all be sunbathing in Lapland any tiime soon. The rise in temperatures increasing global weather volatility, some of which is hot (drought in Australia) and some of which is cold (Upstate NY at the moment, the storms in Europe recently).

So it's getting warmer, but stormier too.