Just for a minute let’s forget about the reams of data, the statistics, whether it’s wetter, drier, hotter or colder than usual. Let’s use our heads! Billions of tons of trees and plant matter containing carbon dioxide have been compressed over millions of years and have formed coal, oil and gas. All that CO2 is being released in one huge blast over a what is a comparatively extremely short period of time. And the intensity of that blast has increased over the last few years as countries like China and India catch up with Europe and North America. Countless vehicles, power stations and planes belch CO2 into the atmosphere. The atmosphere is just a few miles thick. Immense amounts of forested area have been cut down.
How could this not affect the planet?! The problem I have with global warming skeptics is their complete and utter lack of imagination and common sense – combined with a dogmatic pig-headed determination to pounce on any tiny piece of news that might indicate that is still not a “scientific consensus”. Use your heads for Christ’s sake! Think about it! All that CO2 that was built up over millions of years – released in a few decades…. and you’re saying…. “nothing”?
I think most people are under the impression that “its a big planet,” so what we do is meaningless in comparison. They look at things like volcanoes and say, “we can’t compare to what the Earth can do.” What they don’t get is that the atmosphere is but a tiny, tiny little covering over the planet which is very delicate. Yes, it’s a big planet. But a couple miles-worth of air covering it is very, very small by comparison.
Comment by DragonFlyEye — February 14, 2010 @ 2:27 pm