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In Reply to: Electric Cars posted by JURB on October 14, 2020 at 06:22:44:
Either we get off fossil fuels or we're dead as a species. And the clock is perilously close to the end. Having politicians reduce goals for car emissions is but one example of the shoals we're headed for. Here's what NASA says:
"Humans have caused major climate changes to happen already, and we have set in motion more changes still. Even if we stopped emitting greenhouse gases today, global warming would continue to happen for at least several more decades, if not centuries. That's because it takes a while for the planet (for example, the oceans) to respond, and because carbon dioxide - the predominant heat-trapping gas - lingers in the atmosphere for hundreds of years. There is a time lag between what we do and when we feel it.
In the absence of major action to reduce emissions, global temperature is on track to rise by an average of 6 °C (10.8 °F), according to the latest estimates. Some scientists argue a "global disaster" is already unfolding at the poles of the planet; the Arctic, for example, may be ice-free at the end of the summer melt season within just a few years. Yet other experts are concerned about Earth passing one or more "tipping points" - abrupt, perhaps irreversible changes that tip our climate into a new state.
But it may not be too late to avoid or limit some of the worst effects of climate change. Responding to climate change will involve a two-tier approach: 1) "mitigation" - reducing the flow of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere; and 2) "adaptation" - learning to live with, and adapt to, the climate change that has already been set in motion."
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Follow Ups
- I hate to interject science into this, but it's not really a choice. - tinear 10/14/2009:33:18 10/14/20 (11)
- RE: I hate to interject science into this, but it's not really a choice. - E-Stat 15:14:07 10/14/20 (9)
- No link, no belief. nt - tinear 16:14:18 10/14/20 (8)
- Actually - E-Stat 16:40:09 10/14/20 (7)
- Let's consider: you quoted one guy at NASA: and he was right about some pretty scary stuff. - tinear 17:21:49 10/14/20 (6)
- "and he was right about some pretty scary stuff." - E-Stat 17:54:06 10/14/20 (5)
- Actually, China could get there before we do - Chris from Lafayette 01:16:28 10/15/20 (4)
- Their record of emissions is horrible - E-Stat 06:00:08 10/15/20 (3)
- RE: Their record of emissions is horrible - JURB 14:45:39 10/15/20 (2)
- RE: Their record of emissions is horrible - E-Stat 15:13:00 10/15/20 (1)
- Right-of-way real estate - Chris from Lafayette 01:15:57 10/16/20 (0)
- RE: I hate to interject science into this, but it's not really a choice. - rivervalley817 10:15:58 10/14/20 (0)
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