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can global warming be "stopped?"

Submitted by kgould on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 12:17pm.

i thought our discussion about global warming was interesting. it was a topic covered extensively in high school, so i knew a lot of the details already... but i do have one big question: can global warming actually be "stopped?" i know there are a lot of preventative measures people are taking, and are advertising as a "way to stop global warming," but the ball is kind of already rolling...

are the consequences laid out by the experts going to happen because the rate of climate change at the moment or what they predict will only happen if the same bad practices of burning fossil fuels continues?

there's so much CO2 in the atmosphere now, already disrupting the climate on Earth-- even if we stopped all CO2 emissions, would it make a huge difference at this point in time?

would it just alleviate some of the problem?

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