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Re:Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade by run4yourlives on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @03:19PM (#2654338)
Point being that making a mess on another planet is more preferable than making a mess of the only one we have - and I have much more faith in our ability to make a mess of things than I do in our ability to "improve" the Earth's climate.
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Re:Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade by ellyagg on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @04:05PM (#2654524)
That's odd since the evidence we have so far points to humanity adapting our environment and improving our living conditions with breathtaking success.
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Re:Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade by danparsonson on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @05:21PM (#2654812)
Well yes and no - great short term success (of the order of decades or centuries), but we still don't know what the longer term impact of our activities will be; that's one of the big questions of climate science.
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Re:Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade by run4yourlives on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @06:21PM (#2655023)
Um, we wouldn't be discussing climate change if that were the case.
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