Quote Originally Posted by misspotn
Global warming has been around for a while and they realized it in the 1960's but failed to do anything about it. Some people think it would be too costly to correct. Wouldn't the devastating results be way worse to deal with? The name change to 'global climate change' is just a cop out so that our highly intelligent leaders don't have to admit that they were wrong and the 'hippies' are right.

The world is in a sad state these days.
Some people have been suggesting Global Warming for a very long time.
Some of these people were unfortunately quite irrational because at the time there wasn't enough evidence.

An interesting story to read about is CFC's which destroy the ozone layer.
IT took a long time to realize that was occurring and successfully stopped it.

What is quite troublesome is if industry used BFC's. Which are almost identical molecules except they use a bromine Atom rather than a Chlorine. This Bromine molecule is thousands of time more damaging than CFCā??s and if they had used it we would have destroyed the entire ozone layer.

The only reason they didnā??t use it was because using chlorine was slightly cheaper.