Comments on: Climate Change Shifts Into Fast Forward

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:39:29 +0000

Ryan, the planet has gone through many warming and cooling cycles; the big difference this time is the speed of the warming — +100x faster than any previous due to our emissions of CO2. You are right that the Earth will be fine, cutting emissions is all about keeping the climate tolerable for us and the ecosystems we depend on.

By: Ryan Rodgers

Ryan Rodgers — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:58:12 +0000

Hey Stephen, this is a good looking site. I just wanted to give you my opinion on global warming to give you something to think about and possibly research.

Most of my recent thoughts on the subject were pretty well summed up on the final episode of National Geographic’s Earth: A Biography that was just recently on TV. Towards the end of the show, the host said something along the lines of, I’m paraphrasing here: “The earth has gone through many climate cooling and warming cycles and has always recovered to sustain life. Because of those cycles there have been many different dominant organisms inhabiting the Earth. Right now it is our turn to try to survive through this part of the cycle by doing what we can to pad the fall. We need to worry about ourselves, not the Earth, it will recover.”

I believe that, but I am by no means saying that the most intelligent species to ever inheret the Earth should blatently do it harm. I think we should do everything we can to balance it out, by controlling emissions of CO2, by using alternative energy sources for everything. It would be for our own good. We may not recover, but the earth will.

I meant for that to be a short explaination, but I really get fired up on the subject and about halfway through, I stopped and thought I should put this on my blog and link it to yours.

Will you please let me know what your views are on the cyclic warming and cooling trends that happen naturally.

Thank you,
Ryan Rodgers
iwantitpaintedgreen.blogspot.com

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By: Danny Bloom

Danny Bloom — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:37:55 +0000

Interesting article, especially the quote by Dr Mayhew in the UK. People are saying things like the climate change problem is yes, a slow moving train wreck waiting to happen, of which most people are unaware, and the canary in the coal mine of global warming, and the carnary is half dead already…..and others say the coal miners in the proverbial story only left the coal mine when they found that the canary was dead. OOPS, too late.

Is this our fate too?

Good reporting, sir!