Copenhagen thoughts

I'll be the first to admit that I don't do enough self-education on the climate change, but I'm hoping that doesn't make me fit my own definition of stupidity...I want to hear from the active minds here, on their reactions to typical stories like this
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8411135.stm

etc.

Being Canadian I have a latent fear of political will triumphing over common sense with regards to Arctic sovereignty.

That's a new one for me...
If the acid is denser then water then it will sink. How deep i don't know. i wonder what would happen if there was a acid layer to the ocean, somewhere between the surface and the deepest parts of the ocean.
And how many billions of tons would u have to add to make a difference? And with it being denser what is the freezing point because as it gets deeper and deeper it going to get colder. would frozen acid even affect the marine life.

I believe pollution should be controlled and greatly lessened. That being said, i have noticed that the green moment has pick up a lot of corporate funding over the past few years. companies are depending on green technology for their future and when ever that happens your sure to find the media pushing fear to motivate people (and unfortunately the scientist as well, if u herd). more importantly, said companies will start paying off the gov to pass the laws the need to make it happen. Its hard to know whats true and what not. Maybe we should be focusing more on the dumping of toxic chemicals but, ether way the green moment is good for the planet.

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Reality has become a commodity.

I agree with most of what RedWood said, but the problem with the green movement is that it doesn't always follow common sense, I've been heavily exposed to a portion of it through architecture school.

A perfect example of this is the lowflush toilet, designed to use less water when you flush it. The problem is that they don't use enough water to wash a big dook away and the user ends up flushing them usually at least 4 times, using more than the water of the old high pressure industrial toilets.

Though the 'green' movement is on the publics minds I don't see it being completely successful until it is in the public's actions.

Yea, the 'Green' movement sometimes seems like the "breast cancer awareness" movement, where they spend more money on all those ads and pink ribbons, the awareness, rather than on the actual research.

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