Originally Posted by Gojohnnygo.
0.7 degrees is allot in just 100 or so years. Just look at places like Nome Alaska and ask that question to the Inuit. They are losing there perma frost at an alarming rate and they say this has never happened in all the years they have populated this area.(several thousand years) and with the melting of the frost comes more carbon. We need to do something instead of denying it.
Good point. There may be a lot of politics involved here. Al Gore telling us about climate change from the back of a stretch limo. Or President Bush trying to edit out references to climate change
A House committee released documents Monday that showed hundreds of instances in which a White House official who was previously an oil industry lobbyist edited government climate reports to play up uncertainty of a human role in global warming or play down evidence of such a role.
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstra...AA0894DF404482
But when it all comes down to it, we need to stop playing politics and address this issue ethically. There's a lot of evidence that points to drastic change. Should we sit by and deny it?