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Originally Posted by stickyfingerz
That chart looks pretty bad till you see its less than 1 degree for the whole chart. Then you take into account the accuracy and frequency of record keeping prior to the 50s and 60's. Then you take into account that urban sprawl and massive amounts of concrete might just tend to increase slightly the average median temperature.
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But it's still going up by .2 degrees every ten years. This seems small, but it's signifigant in the long run. That's a degree every 50 years if we don't raise at a higher rate. With the population growing signifigantly and more countries becoming industrialized, there is a good chance it could get worse.
I'm not a doom and gloomer and I don't think the world will be completely destroyed in 30 years or whatever because of it. But I do think we are slowly destroying the world. Ocean levels will rise slowly as temperatrues increase. Maybe nothing will happen for 200-300 years, but it will happen eventually where this becomes a problem. I don't think we need to completely change the world to stop this, but I do think we should do our best to limit what is happening.