Comment I have *some* skeptcism... (Score 1) 807
- Carbon dioxide is *not* Carbon. Carbon includes coal, graphite, diamond. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. There are others, methane for example, that some studies think has more effect than CO2
- Carbon-offsets are bullshit. Worried about CO2? Use less, don't try to buy a penance from someone else (who is no doubt making a profit)
- Cutting down on oil dependency is a good idea, even without climate considerations - there simply isn't an unlimited supply.
- By definition, we're still in an ice age (ie permanent year round ice exists). I'm not trying to claim it isn't shrinking, or that we aren't accelerating that shrinkage, but this is a long term process that we shouldn't take all the credit for.
- Habitats are shrinking. Species are going extinct. But to be honest, we don't even know all we have yet. And having watched the local transport people clear and bulldoze areas beside train tracks, I feel that even micro-habitats might help. Looking untidy doesn't mean it doesn't help.
- Evidence exists that at times in the recent (ie 500-1000 years) past that the climate *was* several degrees hotter.
Be totally honest here - slight (5-10 celcius) changes won't result in the end of humanity - civilisation maybe - but humans are more adaptive than that.
The reason I don't speak out on it more as that the idiots are doing at least partially the right things, albeit for the wrong reasons.