Getting Hotter

[maxx]

http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175281/
'Where are they now? Last winter, when record snowstorms brought life in the northeast corridor to a halt, Virginia Republicans launched a web ad, '12 inches of global warming,' and the family of Oklahoma senator and global warming 'skeptic' Jim Inhofe built an igloo on the national mall, labeling it 'Al Gore’s new home.' Now, as Xtreme weather has been setting new records for pure swelter along that same corridor [[and pure drench in the Midwest), who’s building a sweat lodge on the Mall labeled 'Jim Inhofe’s new home'? ..."

[gibran]

too funny....and too true.

[Papasito]

An interesting article from the mainstream media today on the subject:

Newsweek: The Earth Doesn’t Care About what is done to or for it.

Laughlin acknowledges that “a lot of responsible people” are worried about atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels. This has, he says, “the potential” to modify the weather by raising average temperatures several degrees centigrade and that governments have taken “significant, although ineffective,” steps to slow the warming. “On the scales of time relevant to itself, the earth doesn’t care about any of these governments or their legislation.”
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Buy a hybrid, turn off your air conditioner, unplug your refrigerator, yank your phone charger from the wall socket—such actions will “leave the end result exactly the same.” Someday, all the fossil fuels that used to be in the ground will be burned. After that, in about a millennium, the earth will dissolve most of the resulting carbon dioxide into the oceans. [[The oceans have dissolved in them “40 times more carbon than the atmosphere contains, a total of 30 trillion tons, or 30 times the world’s coal reserves.”) The dissolving will leave the concentration in the atmosphere only slightly higher than today’s. Then “over tens of millennia, or perhaps hundreds” the earth will transfer the excess carbon dioxide into its rocks, “eventually returning levels in the sea and air to what they were before humans arrived on the scene.” This will take an eternity as humans reckon, but a blink in geologic time.

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/12/g...html?gt1=43002

[maxx]

SO what's the point? Since the earth is going to turn into a charcoal briquet in a couple billion years, we shouldn't do anything to keep the earth livable today?

[gazhekwe]

And for the seven generations into the future?