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Originally Posted by fdpaq0580
No! I don't have the Exxon-Mobile edition. I hope Wal-Mart sells them. 😀
The "100 years of burning fossil fuels" is only a part of the story that started when we first began to grow crops, build settlements. Settlements became cities. A few crops became huge factory farms with poisons and fertilizers that made their way into rivers, ground water and the oceans. Great forests that provided oxygen and neutraized CO2 were destroyed to make room for farms and livestock ranches that created more earth and air toxins, and the forests we needed were gone.
The land was transformed and huge cities built with factories and refineries and manufacturing that dumped their waste into the rivers. The acids and poisons again made their way into the environment, poisoning the air, land and sea and we had damaged the lungs of the earth again. As our population grew, we did ever more damage to the terrarium we call home, planet Earth. The industrial revolution along with our exponential population growth and habitat destruction has not created the warming, but it has sped up the process.
I know many don't believe it, don't want to believe it, refuse to believe it. I also know those same people won't change or alter their behavior in any way. Take it as science fiction if you like, but, think of all the commonplace things in todays world that were unbelievable science fiction only a mere 100 years ago, like your cellphone and other "miracles" of modern every day life.
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So, we essentially stated the same thing. You agree that human activity did not create our current global warming, which has been going on for 20,000 years. The only point of debate is whether, and to what extent we have "sped up the process". At the extreme, some say not at all, and others cite 5 years. Both are highly unlikely, in fact, since the polar ice caps did not disappear in 2010 as predicted in 2001, the 5 year hypothesis can be chucked in the trash where it belongs. Probably thousands of years, but that guess is just that----a guess