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Originally Posted by alf6300
Wrong, sorry.
Religion makes no falsifiable predictions (except when it says that the world will end in 2012, of course.)
Climate scientists make PLENTY of predictions that are very easy to check.
They do it all the time, it's pretty much their job (albeit certainly not on a month-by-month or zipcode-by-zipcode basis).
Make a small model of the earth and put it under the sun. It gets considerably hotter if you fill the atmosphere of your small model with co2.
That's essentially what climatologists do, and extrapolate the data to see how much co2 will make the global temperature hotter, and when. A very falsifiable prediction, indeed.
Sadly, the model and predictions have not been falsified yet: quite the contrary. So I would prefer not to bet my ass and my kids ass that they are wrong, but that's indeed what we are doing.
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I should have clarified, sorry 'bout that. I'm not talking about the direct cause/effect... which is still up for debate even. What I'm referring to is the idea that this is bad... I mean, after all, mother nature contributes VAST amounts of CO2 into their air... something like 10% - 20% of what all humans contribute but still, no small amount...
Additionally, there have been a few papers publisher in the past year or so that show how the ice caps are melting faster from undersea volcanic activity... It seems to me that the Earth is cyclic in nature we are just speeding up that process.
The thing is, no amount of cap and trade bills, additional taxes on oil companies, etc... is going to change a fucking thing. What the world needs is a commercially viable alternative to burning oil and those extra taxes levied on oil companies reduce the amount of R&D capital they have to spend. Oil companies, after all, spend more money developing alternative fuel sources than any other market segment. They know their days are numbered and the first one to a product, wins.
My problem with Global Warming is that it's still under debate yet it's being used as a key decision maker to ramrod through additional regulation and taxation across the board...
The ONLY real solution is to create commercially viable alternative fuel sources; and by commercially viable, I mean, affordable. We also need to move to more nuclear power plants and away from the old school coal burning pieces of crap :P THEN we will see mass amounts of reduced greenhouse gases. It's coming, the people want it, the planet wants it, there IS a need and that need will be filled and when it is; may the best product win.