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[quote user="zardoz"][quote user="Bucyrus"] It is also a giant leap of faith to assume that the current trend is going to completely destroy the planet in a few dozen years.   [/quote] I do not think any rational person believes global climactic change will "completely destroy the world" (as you phrased it).  It will merely have a tremendous impact of our fragile societies, economies, and political situations.  That's all.[/quote] Yes, I suppose that the complete destruction of the planet could be an exaggeration if taken to mean that the earth would cease to exist.  However, the predictions of the assumed threat are indeed catastrophic, including famine, pestilence, destructive weather, loss of species, and loss of land mass-- all of Biblical proportions.  Certainly the prediction is profoundly dire.  Meanwhile, the assumed timetable has been speeded up so this disaster is considered to be well underway now, and likely to reach its fullest effect within fifty years.  Indeed, we are being told that if we don’t act sufficient to reverse the trend within ten years, it will pass the point of no return and become irreversible.  It’s still a giant leap of faith considering that this whole worry is based mainly on a sufficient temperature measurement going back fifty years or so, and extrapolating a warming of perhaps one degree per century at the most.
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