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Originally Posted by aklim
Is it slowly being cleaned up? I know we are doing something but what is it on a global scale? If we reduce by 3 units and China and India increase by 5, the net gain is +2
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The p[roblem I have with this line of argument--(we HAVE to do something)--is the scale.
You say "if we reduce by 3 units..." using,I assume, some non-defined "units just for the sake of the argument.
To complete that line, we reduce by 3 units and China and India increase by 5 units, and volcanic activity and solar radiation add another 500,000 units, what is the net effect?
Again, the numbers are completely arbitrary, and not defined. But unless your equation includes warming and cooling from ALL factors, it is not worth much. It looks to me as if the naturally occuring, uncontrollable factors outweigh twhat is controllable by a factor of 1000, or 10,000. So we CAN do something, but it won't matter.