"Once there are real world effects of climate change that affect enough of the population then there will be a real mandate to change stuff, and hopefully it won't be too late to salvage something. Until then we just limp along with the token efforts."
LOL we've just had a huge event and many will still deny that anthropomorphic anthropogenic global warming is the cause.
If every machine was shut off today it will take 200 years before we start to see a downward trend in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and a warming decrease. There is a huge lag effect in the system that is why it hasn't been that easy to discern the increases until it's too late.
As I've said before the problem is too many people (population too great), the ongoing events will take care of that; hopefully NZ is a good choice into the future, we will need much better leadership however.
LOL we've just had a huge event and many will still deny that anthropomorphic anthropogenic global warming is the cause.
If every machine was shut off today it will take 200 years before we start to see a downward trend in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and a warming decrease. There is a huge lag effect in the system that is why it hasn't been that easy to discern the increases until it's too late.
As I've said before the problem is too many people (population too great), the ongoing events will take care of that; hopefully NZ is a good choice into the future, we will need much better leadership however.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche