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Quote by: Prometheus Aside from the ambiguous nature of the actual worldwide tempurature fluctuations, there is the question of causality. We theorize that it is CO2. It is a good theory, but I don't totally buy it with the current evidance. We know from geological records that tempuratures fluctuate wildly on this planet. We do not yet understand our unimaginable complex weather systems to make a definitive causal statement. |
Temperatures fluctuate, Prometheus, but not that wildly and certainly not on cue. Check the records and you'll see that fluctuations are fairly cyclical. But more significantly, the current rises were
predicted 25 years ago, based specifically on man-made causes. Now, 25 years later, those computer models --
based on the hypothesis of anthropogenic global warming -- are proving to be accurate. The climate is warming on cue, as predicted, based strictly on human produced greenhouse gases.
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Quote by: Pale RIder We have no more power to influence the climate of the earth than we did to influence the path of hurricane Katrina (or any other natural disaster for that matter). |
Then you're not paying attention. Look around you... humans are influencing all kinds of global systems. We're eliminating much of the globes biodiversity in a anthropogenic
mass extinction event. We're depleting the seas of once boundless fish, with 3/4 of the
world's fisheries collapsing due to overexploitation, over cultivation and deforestation are leading to
desertification affecting 70% of the earth's drylands, the
destruction of vast coral reef systems worldwide, the depletion and salinization of water tables worldwide and the human induced chemical thinning of the very ozone layer that caps our atmosphere.
When you look at charts of the human population explosion like this, bear in mind that it shows not just the explosion of human population but a corresponding explosion of our technology and our industrial capacity to alter, plunder and pollute our environment.
So the question becomes not how can anyone believe that mere human beings can influence the climate but how can anyone
NOT believe it.
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