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ajm51987
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It's really sad because we could still have an efficient (if just not smaller) economy that would help to reduce global warming and it could be easily implemented within 10-15 years.
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1:05 pm on Jan. 27, 2007 | Joined Oct. 2002 | 1744 Days Active Join to learn more about ajm51987 Washington, United States | Straight Male | 7653 Posts | 25557 Points
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CatPower
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Quote: from groovygirl at 5:07 pm on Jan. 18, 2007
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? 
Yes. If the Grenland-ice melts the Gulf streems will stop, and it will become colder and colder. Ice ages can actually come pretty fast too. The assumption is 10-20 years.
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Chava
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Nope we'll adapt.
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7:52 am on Feb. 2, 2007 | Joined Aug. 2006 | 259 Days Active Join to learn more about Chava Ohio, United States | Straight Female | 2608 Posts | 5416 Points
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Autumn624
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I actually don't believe in 'global warming'..My 6th grade schoolteacher gave me this large packet with reasons why global warming doesn't exist, and prrof that it was just a hoax... So I float along without worrying about it for the most part!
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holysaiyan1
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To be perfectly fair, we don't have measurements for Pluto for one of its years (273 Earth years, if I'm correct), so yes, you are correct. 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:
"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. 
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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