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April 07, 2006
Global warming fatalism
The Straight Dope has Cecil's answer to the question, "Is global warming for real?"
The human contribution to atmospheric carbon in the form of CO2 is small, less than 5 percent of the total carbon reservoir. Ergo, humans aren't causing global warming. I omit a lot of ancillary discussion, but that's the nub.One might raise scientific objections to this reasoning, but there's no point. Fact is, there's little that can be done to reduce CO2 emissions regardless of their impact on the environment.
Cecil goes on to say the real challenge is the gradual disappearance of fossil fuels. That we're going to have to do something about, whether we want to face it or not.
Posted by Mark at April 7, 2006 10:47 PM
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