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You bring up some interesting points. However, a few of the things in the article don't ring true to me.
For example-- the "Summary for Policymakers" by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that was referenced in the article can be found here:
http://www.ipcc.ch/pub/un/syreng/spm.pdf
You should take a look at it. The article you quoted used this summary to refute some claims made by Gore. However, the document itself backs up a lot of the claims he says in his book (I haven't seen the movie yet).
There will always be confusion and skepticism regarding a subject as complicated as global warming. However, the consensus of scientific opinion is that we are affecting the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere, and this is having (and is going to have) dramatic effects on the earth's climate.
The fact that it is going to take a lot of work to make an impact is not reason for us to do nothing, it should provide MORE incentive for us to do what we can to cut global emissions.
I hear a lot about how much the developing world will contribute to Greenhouse emissions. Even projecting to 2025, China and India COMBINED (they have over a billion people each) will produce less greenhouse gases than we do:
http://www.net.org/warming/docs/technology_and_emissions.pdf
Finally-- you said
"But as for green house gases, pick any volcanic eruption in the last 100 years. Anyone of them did 1000x more for global warming then 1000 years for what we do on a daily basis."
That is ridiculous. The US alone is producing almost 6 billion metric tons of CO2 every year (see link above). Where are you getting your information from ?!?!?
You bring up some interesting points. However, a few of the things in the article don't ring true to me.
For example-- the "Summary for Policymakers" by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that was referenced in the article can be found here:
http://www.ipcc.ch/pub/un/syreng/spm.pdf
You should take a look at it. The article you quoted used this summary to refute some claims made by Gore. However, the document itself backs up a lot of the claims he says in his book (I haven't seen the movie yet).
There will always be confusion and skepticism regarding a subject as complicated as global warming. However, the consensus of scientific opinion is that we are affecting the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere, and this is having (and is going to have) dramatic effects on the earth's climate.
The fact that it is going to take a lot of work to make an impact is not reason for us to do nothing, it should provide MORE incentive for us to do what we can to cut global emissions.
I hear a lot about how much the developing world will contribute to Greenhouse emissions. Even projecting to 2025, China and India COMBINED (they have over a billion people each) will produce less greenhouse gases than we do:
http://www.net.org/warming/docs/technology_and_emissions.pdf
Finally-- you said
"But as for green house gases, pick any volcanic eruption in the last 100 years. Anyone of them did 1000x more for global warming then 1000 years for what we do on a daily basis."
That is ridiculous. The US alone is producing almost 6 billion metric tons of CO2 every year (see link above). Where are you getting your information from ?!?!?
. At any rate, he says this claim came from a research paper; later, the author of the paper actually admitted he was wrong. However, national media picked up the story and repeated it a few hundred times. Gore made it sound like this wasn't something the scientific community as a whole agreed with at all. I can look it up tonight when I get home if you are interested. At any rate it can understate the problems with getting information from the media who often get information from other news stories or the most sensationalistic reports-- not necessarily from the latest, most accepted (and accurate) scientific reports.
