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Originally Posted by Paradox
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Originally Posted by Windguy
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Runaway Global Warming is an impossibility unless maybe the sun bakes us for a decade or two past 2012. We'll heat up which may bolster viewpoints such as yours and Gore's for a moment but our long-term trend is cooling and this is inevitable unless sea levels rise 80 meters. We have a natural thermostat on our planet and it has prevented runaway warming for millions of years. We are polluters but we are insignificant compared to Mother Nature. The proof exists and is finally making its way into the mainstream. Your position is falling into the Earth is Flat category very quickly. This trend is driven by data, evidence and a reintroduction to common sense.
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If we heat up the planet slowly yes, heat it up quickly, you break apart the ice shelves rather than just melting them which speeds up the ocean melting/rising massively, lowering albedo, releasing methane from the permafrost and bypassing any balance we may have had in stalling GW.
We only took 100 years to surpass 650,000 years worth of CO2 decrease in the atmosphere, possibly a million. 5000 years is a blink of the eye in planet terms of climate change (major changes in the past usually took that long when they caused a mass extinction in the past), 100 years is just ridiculous!
To convince me otherwise you need to show me some data. Don't worry I don't give away 100 grand, and I don't demand ridiculous proofs. Just some credible data that I can further research.