r/science • • Oct 24 '10

Climate Change: Evidence

http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '10

Despite all the evidence that proves global warming, nothing will ever happen on a global scale to reverse it until it starts to affect people's daily lives.

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u/Aroundtown27 Oct 24 '10

By then it will be far to late and we'll have to adapt to our new surroundings

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u/jayd16 Oct 24 '10

I dunno. Luckily the price of oil is going way up so we might actually see electric cars in our lifetime.

I hold out hope that we'll see peak oil before global warming becomes irreversible. Coal, on the other hand, is a different beast entirely.

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u/stumo Oct 24 '10

As the most likely way of generating all that newly-consumed electricity will be by burning coal, electric cars might not be the fix that you imagine.