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Originally Posted by SpectralJulian
Ummm, melting ice in the poles with disrupt the current flow in the Atlantic and will drastically lower temperatures creating a new ice age.
The earth is a powerful force, we can't fuck it up nearly as much as we think.
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Firstly, I don't know why I even bother, but...
The planet has certainly demonstrated over eons of time that it can assimilate quite a bit and it is true that no one truly knows how much more pollution that it can, in fact, safely assimilate.
However, most credible science does confirm that we have already entered a period of climate change. I don't care what your feelings are towards Al Gore; personally, I feel he's shifty and would never vote for him. The fact is that nitrogen has increased in our atmosphere exponentially since the Industrial Revolution and the oceans have warmed consistently and will continue to do so and that this will have potentially catastophic consequences unless it is addressed. Most scientists, in fact, claim that we have reached a point now that there is no stopping global warming no matter what we do to try to rectify the imbalance.
There are, however, promising new studies with phytoplankton (which absorb solar energy) being conducted, but again, if we remove or alter the plankton, then it will damage other parts of the ecosystem because food for marine life will be diminished.