The day after tomorrow: a reality?

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We have to first convince the American People and the Congress that the climate problem is real. The Katrina Storm in The United States in 2005, the tsunami in Asia in 2004 and the midsummer heat in France in 2003 are some manifestations of global warming. In my opinion, these ecological disasters are looming in the future decades. I think that we can't stop global warming because of several reasons. Firstly, stopping global warming seems impossible because the phenomenon seems to be too engaged to be stopped. Secondly, it is possible that global warming is a natural phenomenon too, even if there is no doubt that mankind is the cause of an acceleration of the process. In that case, stopping global warming would be impossible on a human scale. And finally, I believe that we can't stop global warming because policies implemented in order to control it are not sufficient or ineffective.

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[...] The day after tomorrow: a reality? The American President Bill Clinton said (asserted) in 1997 in an address to the United Nations: the United States . we have to first convince the American People and the Congress that the climate problem is real. The Katrina Storm in The United States in 2005, the tsunami in Asia in 2004 and the midsummer heat in France in 2003 are some manifestations of global warming. In my opinion, these ecological disasters are looming in the future decades: I think that we can't stop global warming because of several reasons. [...]

[...] The period known as the Holocene Maximum is a good example: it was the hottest period in human history. This period occurred approximately 7500 to 4000 years B.P. (before present) and so long before human own industrial pollution. CO2 in our atmosphere has been increasing steadily for the last years, long before humans emitted smokestacks. A scientific study asserts that total human contributions to greenhouse gases account for only about of the greenhouse effect and that approximately of the greenhouse effect is due to natural causes. [...]

[...] Lovelock doesn't consider nuclear power as a renewable energy. He begs his own country, the United Kingdom, to pitch now into preparations on a large scale to face a literally infernal climate: hell of a climate”. Thus, I believe too that we can't stop global warming because the process is too engaged to be stopped. Secondly, I think that we can't stop global warming because policies implemented in order to tackle it are not sufficient or ineffective. The carbon dioxide volume levelling of in the atmosphere on a level considered as safe requires a decrease, about 60% or more, of the greenhouse gas emissions, which are responsible for global warming. [...]

[...] The Kyoto protocol, adopted in December 1997, was to stimulate the first steps. But this protocol implementation, as the international awareness of the risks linked to climatic changes, are a long time before being realised. The struggle against the greenhouse gas emissions is today vied for oppositions which can undermine the action implemented. The divisions within the international community are particularly harmful to a politic which, to be efficient, has to be global. Thirdly, the last reason which induces me to think that we can't stop global warming is the possible natural origin of the phenomenon. [...]

[...] Thus, it seems that there are natural origins to global warming and it explains why, on a human scale, we can't really stop global warming. The fight against global warming strikes three main difficulties and limits: firstly the process seems to be too engaged to be stopped: we won't be able to stop it and we can only slow it down. Secondly, policies implemented in order to protect the environment are insufficient and would require a broad consensus to be effective, which is not the case. [...]