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Originally Posted by Ron2k1
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I'm not saying there isn't room to debate the subject...
But to use a single article about one lone scientist's hypothesis versus the thousands of peer reviewed articles out there that support the idea humans are contributing to global warming is a bit unenlightened, imho.
Since we're talking about the other planets now, I should mention that no one's yet to address the point about Venus that I brought to light earlier. Here we have a planet that's several times hotter than it should be based on its relative distance from the sun. It's much hotter than Mercury, even though it's much further away. Why? Because of a "Runaway Greenhouse Effect." So much CO2 is present in the atmosphere of Venus that the Sun's energies are trapped in the atmosphere of the planet, bouncing back and forth between the top of the atmosphere and the planet's surface... heating the planet up like an oven. CO2 is the reason. CO2.
Let's say for a moment that the fact that the Sun is getting hotter every year is a given. That it's contributing to our own global warming. Isn't it still possible that our CO2 emissions into the atmosphere - our artificially dumping billions and billions of metric tons of CO2 into our atmosphere every year - may be speeding up the process even more?
And even if that's only a possibility - considering that global warming is having an obvious and, in many ways, detrimental impact on our environment, isn't it our place to try and do something about it?
As a child, I learned that if you make a mess, it's your responsibility to clean it up.