Global warming has quickly become one of the most heated issues in America (pun intended). Rising temperatures and melting icebergs are indisputable evidence that the Earth is warming, but is this global heat wave a man-made crisis or just overblown hype?
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Besides the IPCC report? Since the conclusions of the IPCC are in dispute, shouldn't the Sierra Club use other sources to support the claim increased anthropogenic CO2 levels will result in famine and drought?
Since CO2 makes up such a small portion of so-called 'greenhouse gases', purportedly a problem because it causes a cascade of reactions, causing a rise in the pre-dominant green house gas - water vapor, how exactly does that translate into droughts, etc?
What does the Sierra Club make of recent data suggesting global cooling? http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/uah-global-temperature-dives-in-may /
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September 10, 2008 8:28AM
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There Are Benefits from Warmer Temperatures and CO2
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disingenuous
There are benefits from a little arsenic too.
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August 24, 2008 10:52AM
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What?
Right now, in other countries, mosquitoes are allowed to go higher up mountains.
Problem: people in malaria-infested areas build their cities on mountains so that mosquitoes won't come in and spread malaria! Sure, our beans are a little greener, but that's not worth people dying.
CO2 also causes poison ivy to grow thicker, greener, and with stronger oils.
We don't necessarily want to make the ecosystem ripe for evolution; it's fine (and already stressed, with various organisms at risk or extinct) as is, and we'd have a few million years to go before seeing any sort of payoff for this change. And there's no guarantee we'd like it.
- sharky
September 24, 2008 5:03PM
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mosquitoes
well if the environmentalists hadn't banned DDT, maybe malaria wouldn't be a problem.
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April 7, 2009 1:30PM
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