Just throwing this out there, as it relates to this discussion:
Reuters article on new U.N. report
Quote:
Greenhouse gas emissions have risen by 70 percent between 1970 and 2004 and are expected to rise by a further 25 to 90 percent by 2030 from 2000 without new restraints, driven mainly by growth in developing nations such as China and India.
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In February, the first U.N. report concluded there was more than a 90 percent likelihood that humans were to blame for warming.
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While I agree that a causal relationship between industrialization and climate change is not necessarily
proved by the rise in greenhouse gas emissions, their coincidence isn't that easy to dismiss, IMHO.
The good news? According to the report cited above, if we act quickly, we will hardly notice any impact on our economics as we work to
reduce (not eliminate) our negative contributions to the atmosphere.