Quote Originally Posted by Ganj
I say bring on the climate change! Destroy all those helpless creatures who depend on the ice caps to provide the essential nutrients for living. As for the global scare, us humans can cope. The planet will be warmer, the ocean deeper, the wind will blow harder, the waves will climb higher, and in forty years time, we will be similar to our sister planet, Venus. What can you do stop it? Express your distaste for it all on a cannabis forum.
All (well, most) of that carbon that we're putting in the atmosphere was put in the ground during the carboniferous period 300 million years ago. Where did all that carbon come from? Why, the atmosphere, actually. And before that, volcanoes.

Our planet is actually still in an ice age. Geologically, it's kind of uncommon for there to be polar ice caps all year. The oldest ice at the ice caps is only about 100,000 years old, owing to the fact that before then, they melted during the summer. But honestly, what we're doing to the atmosphere is very insignificant compared to what's happened to it throughout the geological record.