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Quote by: Chancellor  Well, no, it is not "quite clear." |
It is, unless you want to argue that it wasn't human activity that was the prime cause.
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Quote by: Chancellor Is it really "astonishing"? - drain the water out of a lake (or sea) and you have an empty hole. But why are we so damned arrogant as a species that we think we must do something about this? |
No, arrogance would be where we assume that draining most of a sea has no repercussions for the land around it.
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Quote by: Chancellor For that matter, why are we so damned arrogant as a species that we think somehow we have can affect the weather (climate)? |
No, arrogance would be to assume that despite all the changes to the landscapes we've made and all the pollution we've pumped into the area that we'd not affect our atmosphere. Because we do and the evidence says so.