Is there any point in cutting CO2? http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/sto... So there%26#039;s been a bit of discussion about this recently, but if this guy%26#039;s as amazing as Bob seems to think he is, and Lovelock%26#039;s right, what%26#039;s the point? He says it%26#039;s hopeless.

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To Bob: that was me.
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg3.h...

By the way, it seems to me that much of Lovelock%26#039;s pessimism is due to his doubt that the world will unite to take serious action. I can%26#039;t say that pessimism is unjustified.

The present concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is causing major changes in climate and our environment. But we won%26#039;t change anything by not leaving our TVs on standby or by using fluorescent lamp bulbs. Most of the carbon gases in the atmosphere are from animal origin and we can only cut them if we all stop breathing.

We can reverse climate change if we plant enough trees. It would need about three times as much of the Earth%26#039;s surface to be covered in forest as we have now. That would cost huge amounts of money - nearly as much as the US adventures in the Middle East has cost. And it would require the kind of international cooperation we can only expect when it%26#039;s too late.

This is the type of stuff we need to see to make the changes that are required to solve GW. CO2 is only half the problem. we must clean up the atmosphere. Will we is the Q!

nothing is hopeless we have to try .what will happen if we dont think off the kids its there future not ours we will be long gone and forgotten they are left with the problems we have made for them.

to slow down and lessen the effects of global warming. Also, to make its last a smaller amount of time.

Must reading for all the skeptics out there if Lovelock is even a little bit right like 10% well you do the math. I don%26#039;t think its hopeless myself but its a very real issue, and theres certainly nothing wrong with cutting Co2 emissions.

LOL...of course he can predict the end of the world by 2020, he%26#039;s 88 years old!! He won%26#039;t have to admit he was wrong 12 years later unless he makes it to 100....what a joker!

Edit (Luke above): If he is 10% right, do the math?? What??

You mean instead of starving, people miss one meal in ten? SO, if the IPPC is 10% right, the Earth only warmed 0.1 degree, and man is 3% responsible for that! I don%26#039;t think you want me to do the math...

%26#039;Scuse me while I turn up my central heating 2 degrees, doesn%26#039;t seem to matter.

Hey, I%26#039;m retarded too... Will somebody kill me so I don%26#039;t have to do it myself? Please!

Yea and the experts told me my son wouldn%26#039;t play sports and guess what he plays sports. Experts lack in the most important area of life. Hope

When will people get it into their heads. Earth is warming up because the planet is still emerging from the last ice age. I%26#039;ve read all the arguments, 199? was the warmest year ever since records began etc. Accurate temperature recording has been taking place for probably only 300 years, how old is the planet????????

There is no case to answer.

I dont think so

Whether for CO2 reasons or not, pollution of other toxic gases or just because taking less (because we really don%26#039;t need so much) so that others can have more is the moral thing to do anyway.
Live simply so others may simply live.