We don't
know the consequences of global warming in detail, but we do know that a warmer world will release a lot of carbon into the atmosphere that is currently tied up in peat moss.
Not exact matches
Because our knowledge
of the many delicate balances in the ecology
of the planet is still in its infancy, and because what is
known is not widely understood, the
consequences of what the human race is (in its ignorance) doing to the earth may turn out to be even more serious than
global warming.
Walt, if you've ever studied Pleistocene geology and the million year history
of glacial advances and interglacial
warming cycles you would
know human - induced
global warming and climate changes are the dominant cause
of current and future catastrophic
consequences.
I don't
know if it's fair to say there's been an acceleration detected in the rate
of warming (relative to the early part
of the 20th century), but certainly the situation is very different from 20 years ago when one would have been hard pressed to point to any
consequences that were conceivably linkable to
global warming.
Fourth, although
global warming and climate disruption are the best -
known consequences of carbon pollution, they're not the only ones people should worry about.
Even though the Kremlin - financed media spreads propaganda about the CRU scientists, the Russians do want to
know about climate change so they can anticipate how to mitigate the
consequences of global warming and protect their gas and oil infrastructure.
We
know that the
consequences of unchecked
global warming would be catastrophic... We as a human species have a deep and abiding obligation to this planet and to the generations that will come after us.
We want to
know is what happened last year in the Arctic a
consequence of global warming, or is it just a freak year?
This is not to say that there will be
no negative
consequences from
global warming, it is to say that those
consequences are
no where near as bad as ANY
of the proposed «cures».