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- Mar 3, 2006
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The second half of your post needs to read the first.I have (I think) a rather unique take on the whole "global warming" debate.
Based on the most basic principles of physics, man (mankind) has to have an affect on our environment. "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."
Mankind has undeniably altered the planet with not only gas emissions but also by deforestation, blacktopping and concreting a large percentage of the land masses, countless billions of heat sources, including Transportation engines and other machinery, Commercial and residential Air Conditioners / Heat Pumps, Electrical Grids, Lighting, etc. . . All the way down to the numbers of human bodies, each one radiating an average of 98.6 degrees, 24/7.
We basically have an enormous electric blanket on our planet that didn't use to be there.
If by nothing more than simple displacement (physics,) Our sea levels have to rise from the simple numbers of floating ships, ship wrecks, man made islands, trash, plane crashes, river flow increases resulting from man made attempts to eliminate flood zones,etc.
Bottom line, it's cumulative and undeniable.
However, despite all of our efforts to warm the planet (intentional or not) our impact simply isn't all that serious.
It is just as undeniable that the planet's own activity with volcanos and such, above and below the oceans, fluctuations in the Sun's output, etc. . . all varies considerably and HAS historically drastically affected the climate, many times before the industrial revolution was in the mix.
I have yet to see anything from any of the alarmists to get me even the slightest bit worried that Man can or has done anything to the planet that the Planet can not absorb or remedy in a way that would render itself uninhabitable to an otherwise intelligent species, like man.
It's absolutely contradictory.
The old "it's been warm before" doesn't justify making it warm Very fast (in geologic terms) now.
The consequence are dire and getting worse, and as you say 'cumulative', and at some point accelerating/snow-balling. That point may be as we speak/now.
IMO we are well past the point of no return now.
If we capped CO2 and NH4 even at 20 years ago levels, it would have slowed but not stopped what's coming.
(al Gore 2000 was probably the last chance, to dent the damage)
Sea Level will be rising enough by mid-century to make many low-lying cities uninhabitable.
Place like (but not limited to) Miami already have regular tidal flooding, and the housing market changed there.
By century end most of the largest coastal cities on the planet from Shanghai to London, to NYC will be forever changed and in parts evacuated. Of course the areas left above water will get the picture everyone will be leaving, and certinly no one buying.
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