Global Warming, what again?

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Originally posted by Undertoad
As the chart clearly shows, we would have to return to pre-industrial age levels of consumption in order to prevent this phenomenon.

The chart show nothing of the kind. Using same logic used by Undertoad, the chart shows what happens when too many people now commute alone by 2 ton car from Pennsylvannia to New York City every day. But we need those people to drive two hours each direction at over 100 km/hr to keep the world from starving!

Since we could not save the Columbia, then we also should not have tried to save it. I hate such defeatist reasoning. It defines the classic anti-American - person who fears to innovate - who fears to address problems - whose solution to problems is to always give up because the problem certainly cannot be solved or even minimized.

Instead we should spend even bigger buck on an anti-ballistic missile system to save us from a threat that does not exist. Clearly its better to spend massive funds on something that is flawed and no money on technologies we know work.

That 'woe is me so don't try to fix it' reasoning is offered by UT in response to the chart. That was also same reasoning offered as an excuse when engineers desperately tried to save seven shuttle astronauts.

CO2 levels don't have to rise this quckly. We know the technologies exist for more productivity using less energy and pollution. Thank the Japanese and Germans for rescuing so many technologies that sat stifled in America. Of course they now a have all those jobs.

BTW, have we noticed all the heavy blue and black smoke now pouring from coal power plants in the region. Same reasoning that says global warming cannot be solved is also why all those scrubbers are no longer being used. We cannot clean the air enough so we should not clean it at all - George Jr reasoning.

Again, same reasoning used by UT to ignore realities of global warming. We can't solve it today so we should never try. Its called being an anti-American - a quitter - an ostrich. Global warming exists. Many solutions to global warming means greater productivity - except to quitters.