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The other thing I believe is that there are natural changes that the earth goes through.  Nothing stays the same over a zillion years.  I think climate change is real but I also think that our expectations if weather and geography - shit changes and it doesn't stay the same for 40" years you know?  If you build a house in Miami on the beach well sorry but in 400 years it may not be there and that's because the earth changes! We can't expect our desires of what we want to last forever.  Life doesn't work that way - things die and seasons happen and that's not just climate change that's cycles and lufe. [/quote]

Our best efforts to understand the past climate and the present climate indicate that global average temperature is now changing at a record pace. The rapid pace of change is what is most alarming -- not the fact that the climate is changing. The study that was cited earlier in this thread indicates that average temperature over land in the northern hemisphere is increasing by 1.0F every 14 years.

[url]https://www.soa.org/resources/research-report...global-warming/#fig5[/url]

If that pace continues over the next 100 years, then by 2124 the average in North America will be 7 degrees Fahrenheit higher than it is today. This is a disturbingly large change across a short time period.

I understand the attitude that there is nothing that can be done because the problem is so big and complicated. But I find it too depressing to do nothing at all. I've altered my own CO2 footprint quite a bit, cutting it in half, from about 10 tons a year to 5 tons a year. I have eliminated many luxuries that I used to enjoy. So much CO2 is generated simply by excessive consumption, rather than by the production of life's necessities. The least I can do is shed some of the high-CO2 luxuries. 
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Good for you. Live your life of austerity and sleep well knowing that all your sacrifices are being negated by orders of magnitude by China and India. In the end the result will be the same, we’ll be a half dozen degrees warmer, sea levels will probably rise a bit, plants will grow in marginal places they couldn’t before, and life will go on.

That’s not worth me sacrificing because I know it’ll be negated by China and India. F’ it. I’m not doing it. [/quote]

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