A Comment About
Progress: Canadian Senate Listens to Global Warming Skeptics
January 2, 2011 - 12:00 am
Greg
2012-01-03 17:33:21
“population Bomb” – well, maybe not a bomb as such, but the world population is due to pass 7 Billion sometime around 2025. Is that a problem, well, we’ll see.
Acid Rain had a significant impact on European forests during the 70s and 80s.
Depletion of the Rain Forests reduces the size of carbon sinks and also leads to the extinction of species and reduction of ecological diveresity. Once a species is extinct, it is gone.
The hole in the ozone layer over antarctica (yes, it IS there) led to an increase in melanomas and other skin cancers in Australia during the 90s. Luckily, effective action in getting rid of a large number of CFCs (and similiar agenst) has led to the hole getting smaller.
