[cfgeeks] It's real...

[Karen Hill]

We cannot and should not stop it, but we can reduce our contribution to an accelerated increase that cannot be naturally balanced.  The change is so slow and so gradual, that eventually hundreds or even thousands of years from now, it can reach a critical point (known as extinction) as long as we don't "do" anything.  It's not about radical changes, but gradual changes.  Things that are as simple as changing your lightbulbs, taking the stairs instead of the elevator, walking or taking your bicycle instead of driving.  Small changes that don't have massive impacts on the economy.  If the small changes become habits, then you've just made a difference.  "An Inconvenient Truth" has a wonderful chart about the simple changes we can make as individuals that can have a large impact on our estimated contribution to C02 even with a growing population.  The challenge is wading through the arguments..what's worse: using paper plates or washing dishes...as far as an environmental
 impact goes... (yes, this is one Troy and I have...)

There's a link I've been trying to find and I can't seem to pull up anything but links for a stupid hormone drug... Gil do you still have it?  I must be spelling it wrong, but it's the premarian (sp?) period that Troy talked to you about.  If Gil has it and can post it, take a read of that and let me know what you think of that theory...that's more of what I subscribe to rather than the drastic, running-with-your-hands-in-the-air-because-it's-the-end-of-the-world-in-our-lifetime reaction...although I still find 2012 a possibility... ;)

...or we may just wipe ourselves out before critical mass is reached anyway...being the hostile and aggressive species that we are...


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From: syberghost <syberghost at gmail.com>
To: Central Florida Geeks <cfgeeks at mail.cfgeeks.org>
Sent: Friday, February 2, 2007 10:56:03 AM
Subject: Re: [cfgeeks] It's real...


On 2/2/07, Karen Hill <karendhill at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/02/02/climate.talks.ap/index.html

I would like to draw your attention to the following:

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And the report said no matter how much civilization slows or reduces
its greenhouse gas emissions, global warming and sea level rise will
continue on for centuries.

"This is just not something you can stop. We're just going to have to
live with it," co-author Kevin Trenberth, director of climate analysis
for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado,
said in an interview. "We're creating a different planet. If you were
to come up back in 100 years time, we'll have a different climate."
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It's not something you can stop.  There is no reason to cripple
developing economies or put thousands of people out of work or raise
my taxes to fight this.  We can choose; either we have technology at
all, in which case we learn to live with this, or we can choose to go
back to 25-year life spans, 90% infant mortality, and total die-offs
of everything larger than an amoeba every time something spikes.
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