Mass Extinction!

[Shell B]

Both of you are correct dammit!

Duh.

Climate change is an incredible problem right now as humans have contributed quite a bit of help to a force that has routinely decimated the globe in ages past ("Ice age").

I made it clear that I don't think climate change is not a problem. I think both problems need to be addressed immediately. What I said was that habitat destruction scares me more. This is basically because its effects are more obvious and immediate. It's also been happening for far longer than our affect on climate change.

Cutting down forests, overpopulation, carbon fuels all have contributed to that behemoth.

Indeed it has. It has also contributed to animals being hit by motorists, dangerous soil erosion (not future erosion, now erosion), etc.

And no Shell, sea level rise and the fluctuations brought on by climate change will destroy or severely damage existing ecosystem.

I don't believe I said it wouldn't.

Technically, climate change is a bigger problem.

I don't think I said one or the other was a bigger problem. What I am talking about is which is more immediate.

Think of it akin to a giant, heavy boulder rolling down a hill at us -- at first it starts slowly due to it's mass, but when it gets up to speed, good luck stopping it.

I couldn't agree with you more, as it pertains to both issues (which are obviously the same in some respects). I don't think people will be able to stop it by the time it bites them in the ass.

What accelerates and assists that giant climate change boulder of doom is cutting down forests, etc,. Increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (and thus additional molecules that can store thermal energy quite well (as vibrational modes)) and damaging carbon sequestration is affecting the entire globe.

Yep. To be honest, the best thing that could happen for this planet is for climate change to kill us and to spare enough life for this planet to continue sustaining it.

Global climate change, like any other large scale event, has a certain momentum to it. Several talks I attended by USGS scientists stated clearly that even if we were to halt all carbon emissions by humanity immediately, climate change would still occur. Not nearly as badly, but still.

Ladies and Gentlemen, there is a projected atmospheric/climate freight train thundering down the track and is aimed right at us.