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Originally Posted by Robbie
No YOU know we have been over this.
Look at historical warming and cooling. (here I go again having to explain shit that should have been taught in high school)
We came out of the "Little Ice Age" in the late 1800's and entered a NATURAL period of global warming.
That happens over a period of a couple of hundred years.
If you look back at the Earth's history...you will see that both warming and cooling can happen at VERY quick rates.
The Earth has heated up fast before. And it has cooled so fast before that Dinosaurs were frozen on their feet in the middle of walking.
I have also pointed out over and over and over this FACT: The Earth has warmed up 0.74 degrees Celcius over the past 100 years.
That's it.
That's the big gloom and doom scenario.
You believe what you want. You can't change anything anyway.
None of us can.
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The debate isn't whether or not the Earth cools and warms in cycles. It's common knowledge that it does. The question is whether or not we humans are having an effect on it. It seems reasonable to me that if we dump metric tons of pollution into the water, soil, and air and build massive cities made of concrete and steel not to mention the sheer number of actual people, that it would cause it to get a little warmer than it might on its own.
Sadly, we aren't going to know for certain for, potentially, centuries, as we continue to gather reliable data. I don't support things like carbon taxes and shit that is just designed to take money from one person and give it to another without actually changing anything, but I think it is in our best interest to operate under the assumption that we have an effect on the planet and therefore should try to figure out ways to minimize that.