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AverageJoe90

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16. So do I.

Mon Aug 6, 2012, 02:18 AM

Aug 2012

I don't, of course, doubt that methane is more powerful than Co2, or that it may have played a significant role in the last major extinction.
But is a Permian-type feedback really all that imminent, or unstoppable for that matter?

TBH, though the main problem I had with you reply was that you seemed to imply that we can't stop global warming now. We CAN. We already have solutions, in fact. It's just that our government is still too bought out by certain interests to do anything full-steam, and that HAS to change, or we are in bad trouble.

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So do I. AverageJoe90 Aug 2012 #16

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