How Many Nobel Prize Winners Support the AntiGlobal Warming Crowd 120
Thing is, we've *been* pretty cautious. Global warming isn't something scientists thought up last week. The specific idea of measuring CO2 increase in the atmosphere, under the hypothesis that human industrial output was causing it, dates from at least as far back as the late '50s. The implications of this increase were immediately obvious to climate scientists.
So, this is an idea that's at least 50 years old. Evidence in support has steadily mounted.
Anyway, the trade-off between the economy and CO2 emissions reduction isn't nearly what some people make it out to be, and there are other extremely compelling reasons to stop burning oil (which mostly comes from parts of the world we'd really be better off avoiding) and coal (which dumps tons of crap other than CO2 into the atmosphere, like uranium and mercury).
Probably because the warnings were heeded.
Thing is, we've *been* pretty cautious. Global warming isn't something scientists thought up last week. The specific idea of measuring CO2 increase in the atmosphere, under the hypothesis that human...
It would be great if the same thing happened with global warming.
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