Lord help us all. 

It seems that FatherNature (Al Gore) even has an impact within the software community. 

What's next?  A slimmed down version of Visual Studio that consumes less power and thus saves the polar bears from drowning?

All in all, amusing video.

SM


I, for one, also believe that as humans we are nieve to think that we can destroy something we cannot create.  My critics say that we are destroying the planet; however, the fact that we are unable to stop a hurricane from killing thousands of people sort of disproves that fact and a hurricane is less than 1% of the total energy that can be produced by nature.



SCMcDonnell wrote:  I, for one, also believe that as humans we are nieve to think that we can destroy something we cannot create.  My critics say that we are destroying the planet; however, the fact that we are unable to stop a hurricane from killing thousands of people sort of disproves that fact and a hurricane is less than 1% of the total energy that can be produced by nature.

Noone's talking about "destroying" global warming - that makes global warming sound terribly boolean - it's there or it isn't.

In practise global warming caused by human induced average global temperature increase, and this has been shown to be true by a very large number of scientific papers on the subject.

Your argument at this point falls down. Since we did make the increase, we surely can make a decrease, and since global carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming (and many recent scientific studies show this increase from 180ppm natural state of carbon to the 330ppm state today, which is projected to be in the 450ppm region by 2020, over three times the highest ever carbon amount in the atmosphere since the first trees evolved), it makes a great deal of sense to attempt a reduction of carbon in the atmosphere, which begins by slowing the rate of increase.

You suggest in your post that humans are too small to make a difference, but if you remember back to the early 1990s, the ozone hole was a major environmental threat, and due to the unilateral agreements between most of the developed countries in the world, including Russia, China, the US, the EU, Australia, OPEC and South Africa, the ozone hole has all but finally disappeared.

It's not a question of if humans do something about it, but rather when; and the economic reviews (see Stern et al) suggest that it will be increasingly economically crippling to postpone carbon-emission intervention on a global scale.


Those scientists are just keeping the research dollars going.  I frooze my *ss off this winter till April/May.  Maybe it is reversed.  But then they need to modify the research.