“When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically.”

Whatever your opinion global warming is, it will never be a bad thing to reduce your environmental footprint. It will never be a bad thing to pump less manmade chemicals in our atmosphere. It just won’t. Anyone want to argue with me here? If you do, you’re probably like..evil.

If global warming isn’t going to convince you to reduce emissions, how about ocean acidification?

http://www.physorg.com/news134314354.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN1046682220080710

And I know people are going to be skeptics of ocean acidification, too. But you can’t argue with the logic in these hypotheses. Most of us have learned about the greenhouse effect in school. You car has windows closed in a hot, sunny parking lot. The heat gets trapped inside! Those who have learned any elementary chemistry (or have any common sense) will know that if you have higher concentration of a gas around a liquid, more of that gas will dissolve in the liquid! What a concept! It all seems pretty logical to me. For all we know there are many other un-global-warming-related-effects of producing more CO2.

I’ll be honest. I might be one of those “environmental whackos” that were mentioned earlier, but some things I can’t help but believe. I’ve loved everything math and science related since I was a kid. I loved nature and how much order there was in a seemingly chaotic world. I loved learning about all the intricacies of life from the molecular level to the ecosystem level in biology class. The more I learn, the more I appreciate the life this planet has supported. I don’t care if we colonize Mars or the moon in the next century; it’s never going to be as beautiful as Earth. I know it sounds cheesy, but Earth is our only home. If you could do something that could potentially (potentially is the key word here) do irreversible harm to it, why risk it? It’s just not worth it.

PS Has anyone read Ishmael by Daniel Quinn? If not, it’s an excellent read for..anyone!

It is .036%!

That would be about the equivalent of 3 CO2 bubbles floating up in a can of coke. Barely an influence in what the temperature will be.

I was beginning to forget what the original post was about and the intended purpose of the site itself.