Koyoto is here

jaguar · 02-16-2005, 02:45 PM

While I agree koyoto is pointless my reason is a touch different - as far as I can see it's far too little, too late to have any real impact. The bit that people are missing is feedback, we're getting very, very close to the level where it kicks in, once you hit that point, we're essentially fucked. The level of annual rises of carbon in the atmosphere is now above 2ppm, it's getting faster. We may stop putting out as much carbon but the damage we've done and are doing to the earth's carbon sinks is close to a point where it becomes irrelevant. Logarithmic curve here we come.

lookout123 · 02-16-2005, 02:48 PM

hey jag - are you saying i should blow off work and start planning my End of the World Party? i think i still have some of the decorations left over from my Y2K party...

Kitsune · 02-16-2005, 02:53 PM

My God and yours, Wikipedia, has a pretty good article, including a nice summary of why some countries are for and against.

xoxoxoBruce · 02-16-2005, 06:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jaguar

......The bit that people are missing is feedback, we're getting very, very close to the level where it kicks in, once you hit that point, we're essentially fucked. .....

That's when the frozen methane kicks in and it's all over but the shouting.

02-16-2005, 02:45 PM	#1
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	While I agree koyoto is pointless my reason is a touch different - as far as I can see it's far too little, too late to have any real impact. The bit that people are missing is feedback, we're getting very, very close to the level where it kicks in, once you hit that point, we're essentially fucked. The level of annual rises of carbon in the atmosphere is now above 2ppm, it's getting faster. We may stop putting out as much carbon but the damage we've done and are doing to the earth's carbon sinks is close to a point where it becomes irrelevant. Logarithmic curve here we come. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

02-16-2005, 02:48 PM	#2
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	hey jag - are you saying i should blow off work and start planning my End of the World Party? i think i still have some of the decorations left over from my Y2K party... __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

02-16-2005, 02:53 PM	#3
Kitsune still eats dirt Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 3,031	My God and yours, Wikipedia, has a pretty good article, including a nice summary of why some countries are for and against. Last edited by Kitsune; 02-16-2005 at 03:02 PM. Reason: Link correction

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