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Originally Posted by Dragoneye
Sorry guys,
I really didn't mean anything by it. It's just that I get kinda heated up in "discussions", and I hate being wrong, I mean vehemently hate it .
I guess I'm just afraid that if we humans sit back and say oh it's just natural cycle...we will seriously screw ourselves. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing on whether or not Global warming is causing any effects or not. Just worried that if it is, we humans are effectively damning ourselves by ignoring it or shrugging it off.
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I agree with you 100% on that. I mean, it would be very neglegent to take our lack of evidence as proof that CO2 levels are not driving global warming and just start putting all the CO2 we want into the atmosphere. CO2 levels have risen about 280 parts per million, where they had held constant for thousands of years until about the mid 1800's when we began to see them rise, to 360 parts per million today. We need to be proactive and reduce our emissions so that we do not end up with a global problem hundreds of years down the road that could have been prevented.
I think it is cool that
Richard Branson has issued a challenge and is going to reward anyone who can devise a way to extract CO2 from the atmosphere. I think that we need to be careful how we react to this issue however as to not take it too far to the extreme as our ecosystem does rely on CO2 to sustain itself just as much as we rely on oxygen.