murkar wrote:First off that's a fairly narrow minded conclusion Legend, and holds no validity whatsoever. Compared to weather patterns from the last 600,000 years the earth has never experienced surges of CO2 even relatively close to
half of where we're at now. The CO2 is building, and the temperature will follow, as has been the pattern for over half a million years with the last six ice ages.
And a planet will most definitely not get old over the course of three or four lifetimes; considering that this planet is approximately 4.5Billion years old, even changes over a 300 year period would be like a newborn aging to become the worlds oldest person overnight. The planet is definitely not "getting old", especially not over the course of only .0000000067% of the earths life ( I worked it out, that percent is relatively accurate). To put that in accurate perspective, it's the equivalent of a baby aging 80 years in .0000019564 of a day, or
0.169 seconds (I worked that out also, it's accurately proportional).
According to a NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) press release, "...the solar increases do not have the ability to cause large global temperature increases...greenhouse gases are indeed playing the dominant role..."~Stanford Center of Solar Research,
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on ... -warm.html.
There are a few things to note here; our CO2 levels have multiplied by more than six times the natural amount that occurs before a warming period (which occurs before an ice age). Of course, there's a problem here. With global temperatures reaching 30 degrees Celsius and above currently, and CO2 levels going up by upwards of 400%, the temperatures can and likely will reach 120 degrees
Celsius (not Fahrenheit).
Do you see a problem? Let me put it to you this way: human skin begins to burn at around 60 degrees Celsius, and it takes just one second for that burn to occur. Compared to10 minutes at 49 degrees Celsius, people will surely say "oh, there's no danger".
There's another point to be looked at. Everyone seems to have this gung ho "save the planet" attitude. We aren't saving the planet though; the planet will go on without us, plants and animals will once again come to live on earth after we are all gone, because no matter how harsh global warming gets, we literally can't kill the planet; we can make conditions unlivable for plants and animals, which will eventually come back a few hundred million years from now (which isn't all that much in planetary standards). We can't kill the planet; only ourselves.
Another point to be looked at is the fact that with such a high population it would be extremely easy for a contagious disease to spread at an extremely fast rate. It would be impossible to contain it. 28 days later? Without zombies of course, it's completely possible as soon as the human population gets so large. Especially if it's an airborne virus.
And Avenger I would love for you to link me to that petition so I can verify it's credibility.
I would also like to point out that when people begin to criticize it's because they have no more valid points to argue, and they subconsciously know that they're arguing a false point (I live with a psychologist). *ahem* Kieltyka *ahem*
If you have no valid points to back up an argument then please don't bother making one, it usually tends to be distasteful based on the premise above.
*Bad Day Rant* 
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