you suggest that there are more pressing issues than global warming–namely, poverty, and free trade. The important thing about global warming is that it is not some distant problem with intangible consequences. If we proceed to do nothing, climate changes and irregular weather patterns will occur, causing crop failure in agricultural regions across the globe.

So, if poverty and free trade are your main concerns, then should not a force that will increase both hunger/starvation, and a lack of commodities (crop) be of a major concern?

Although I do believe that global warming is happening, and that human activity is largely responsible, it is counter-productive to state such overly-speculative ‘data’ as proof of the occurrence of global warming, and of the necessity for human acknowledgement and intervention. These financial estimates are given without any explanation of what is taken into consideration–making them seem exaggerative and unconvincing.

Brian: There is a SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS. That means people who know stuff about science and have spent their lives researching it are IN 99% AGREEMENT that Global Warming IS happening and that it will be catastrophic.

Imagine a Katrina in New York. No, imagine something worse than Katrina. Scientists earlier this year began debating the prospect of a category 6 hurricane. They think we’ll need it.

Why not prevent Global Warming? We have all the technology, we have all the ability, and we have all the proof that Global Warming is occuring and that it’s serious. The cost of doing nothing is MILLIONS of human lives and trillions of dollars. The cost of doing something is losing only a few lives, and maybe billions of dollars.

And for the bimbos who claim that since we just had an early winter storm, that we are clearly not experiencing global warming – that’s ice caps melting, and sending cool air into the atmosphere. Remember, global warming effects are unpredictable in many cases – but we know the cause is an increase in temperature. Obviously, we’ll have more arid areas and less temperate areas. We’ll see melting ice caps for sure, and we know what happens when those ice caps melt, right? More water in the ocean, would the correct answer. More water = flooding. Flooding = standing water. Standing water = disease that causes thousands of deaths. Disease = mass migration, etc etc.

Global Warming IS the ultimate armageddon scenario. But it’s also preventable, at least the worst parts of it.

Keep walking to the cliff’s edge poor sheep! Ridiculous.

“It dang near snowed in October, so there’s no global warming.” Hey, moron, look at the amount of ice melting at the poles. You obviously know nothing about climate science. Examine the raw data about the average global temperature, and you’ll see. We do nothing, we’re f’d. If we do what you imply we do (nothing), your grandkids, if you have any, will curse your idiocy and everyone else’s idiocy in ignoring this problem.

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Look in the Bible : God said ‘here is the earth, take it, rape it, it’s yours’.

Rev. Neill
Idaho

Rev, assuming you have a house/trailer to live in, do you go around it destroying everything without a care for your space, and (obviously even less) the space you share with others? If it were your daughter that got raped on the advice you have misconstrued as somehow “being ok” from the bible, I’m sure your impetulant comments would stay right where they belong.

I’m so sure these losers at tufts can predict the ecconomy in 100 years.

What a freaking joke.

Imagine what people must have thought 100 years ago about protecting the envirnoment. If they were to look 100 years into the future, they would say “The Cost of not finding a way to deal with all the horseshit from horse and buggy carrigdges in 100 years will be $100 billion dollars.”

Get a clue.

We have a 10 year window to do something about Global Warming. If we act now, we can avoid losing the 100+ million people Al Gore was discussing. However, if we don’t act now, take that 100 million, and multiply it. There are things not even discussed in the movie that are problems.

Imagine massive crop failiure WORLDWIDE. Imagine refugees from every nation heading North. Imagine the “North” being flooded. That’s permanently standing water people – dangerous viruses LOVE standing water. Add perhaps 10 million or so to the death count for viral infections. Then add roughly 500 million to starvation in the years after global warming rears all of it’s ugly head, not including the millions more involved a fight for the last fertile land.

Just because you won’t be alive when ALL of global warming is seen, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do something. Every day something isn’t done, you’re contributing to our planet’s ultimate demise.

Where will your children, and their children go? Probably not very far.

See An Inconvenient Truth, and join the fight to save humanity.