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Warpy

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2. Climate change is inevitable after 3 centuries of heavy industrialization
Thu Apr 13, 2017, 06:48 PM
Apr 2017

using fossil fuels. However, people have been moderating their carbon footprints since the early 70s without realizing it every time they buy a small city car, an Energy Star appliance, or put a CFL into a hard to reach light fixture because they were sick of hauling out a ladder to change bulbs every few weeks.

I've also seen solar generating fields and wind turbines sprouting around here like mushrooms.

What's really worrying is the increasing rate of methane release from the deep sea bed and permafrost. That's what has the potential to change climate change into runaway global warming. We can survive the former, not the latter.

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