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mn9driver

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11. There will be no global carbon treaty for many years.

Reply to B2G (Original post)

Thu May 8, 2014, 01:52 PM

May 2014

By that time, CO2 levels will be high enough to pretty much guarantee temperatures that will make growing most crops impossible, sea level rise much greater than anything predicted so far, and many parts of the world will simply become uninhabitable due to heat spikes.

A common theme among the denierbots is that climate change is a plot and a hoax to impose one-world government. They are wrong about the plot/hoax thing, but correct that no real controls on carbon emissions can happen without a real change in world politics.

In several hundred years, most of the world is not going to be a fun place to live.

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How much impact can we have on Climate Change [View all] B2G May 2014 OP

Agreed DustyJoe May 2014 #1

A global effort with regional governments The2ndWheel May 2014 #2

China will never sign on to any agreement B2G May 2014 #3

None. At this point massive planet-wide upheaval is baked into the cake.. truebrit71 May 2014 #4

Somewhere out there someone from Nuclear Unicorn May 2014 #24

Our corporations took our jobs to China/India BECAUSE they do not have stroung environmental jwirr May 2014 #5

Very little Puzzledtraveller May 2014 #6

The problem is we can't get countries like China to do anything B2G May 2014 #7

I agree completely Puzzledtraveller May 2014 #8

Plenty if we invent viable energy alternatives and spread them to the rest of the world seveneyes May 2014 #9

Easy peasy. Silly me. B2G May 2014 #10

Yep, just invent a solution .... oldhippie May 2014 #19

I don't know about "we having the money" ohnoyoudidnt May 2014 #30

There will be no global carbon treaty for many years. mn9driver May 2014 #11

So if that is true B2G May 2014 #12

Eventually, we will mn9driver May 2014 #14

Some people are .... oldhippie May 2014 #20

I don't B2G May 2014 #21

Another issue is that it's not just what energy we use The2ndWheel May 2014 #13

#1: implement a carbon tax muriel_volestrangler May 2014 #15

According to this list, B2G May 2014 #16

Yeah, but by you singling out India and China in the OP, you are obviously only worried about muriel_volestrangler May 2014 #17

Uh, I'm not the only one B2G May 2014 #18

Yes, I'm saying you linked to a less appropriate list - you're not talking per capita muriel_volestrangler May 2014 #22

Well, this sure sank pretty fast oldhippie May 2014 #23

K&R Owl May 2014 #25

Hey kids, can't blame you a bit for dropping out RobertEarl May 2014 #26

We could start with veganism. flvegan May 2014 #27

And quit flying RobertEarl May 2014 #28

interesting Egnever May 2014 #29

I think lot's Egnever May 2014 #31

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