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i'm really worried about it.
if we dont take care of our environment it's going to get worse and worse for our children and our children's children.

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i believe we are already at the point of no return...

we need to stop trying to patch the "boo boo"s of the situation. [merely prolonging the inevitable]
we need to find a FIX for the problem. lowering emmissions and polluting less will only delay what will eventually happen.. we need to [somehow] rebuild and reeforce the Ozone.. otherwise, theres really nothing we CAN do.

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Perosnally Im not worried because I'd probably be dead before anything bad really happens. But I do think its a major issue and people should care more than they actually do. Is it right that we are heading for another ice age?

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Mars appears to be entering a phase of warming, as well.

Jupiter has lost 2 of its 3 formerly perpetual White Oval storms to climatic change.

If the Earth was experiencing climate change at the same rate as Neptune's moon Triton, we'd be majorly boned.

Pluto's temperature has tripled in the last 14 years, and its air pressure is rising as well.

The possible cause for this cosmic crisis?  The sun is emitting more energy than usual.

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The others are pretty interesting though, but I know for certain that warming on Pluto isn't linked to what's happening on Earth. Its due to axis change and it's funny orbit. (Its in the article   )
Any your right, If we were heating up like Triton, we would be boned. I hadn't heard of the climate change there before -  you learn something new everyday.

As for where I sit on the issue of Global Warming, I'm on the worried side. Australia's weather over the past few years has been really fucked up and we can't seem to be able to blame it on phenomina like El Nino.
The most damning evidence for a man made cause of most Global Warming comes from ice core samples from Antarctica.
These samples show that concentrations of CO2 are in their highest point in 650,000 years. It's hard to blame that on the Earths natural cycles between ice ages - an interglacial cycle lasts about 150,000 years. This rise in CO2 seems to carrelate with the start of the industrial age. Coincidence?

The links work for me on two different computers, perhaps it's just you.  Dunno.  Anyway, the gist of the Jupiter article is that Jupiter has warmed up slightly, which has caused Jupiter to lose two of its major perpetual storms that were in its atmosphere.

The article about the Sun said that NASA announced that since the 1970s, the amount of solar radiation emitted has increased by 0.05% per decade.  It said this interesting tidbit:

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"This trend is important because, if sustained over many decades, it could cause significant climate change," said Richard Willson, a researcher affiliated with NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University's Earth Institute, New York. He is the lead author of the study recently published in Geophysical Research Letters.

"Historical records of solar activity indicate that solar radiation has been increasing since the late 19th century. If a trend, comparable to the one found in this study, persisted throughout the 20th century, it would have provided a significant component of the global warming the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports to have occurred over the past 100 years," he said.

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So what you attribute to an industrial revolution starting in only a handful of countries can also (and probably more scientifically plausibly) attributed to a global increase in received solar radiation during that same period of time.  Jus' saying  


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Post edited at 9:30 pm on Feb. 3, 2007 by flatplat