ORIGINAL: tolsdorff
ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget
ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
Regardless of which theory you think is correct, the big question is "Can we afford to be wrong and do nothing while we wait for irrefutable evidence?".
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Exactly! We cannot take any chances. If the GW pessimists are wrong, so much the better. But if the GW sceptics are wrong, we will be in deep sh... er, water. Simple prudence dictates that we act 'just in case' the GW pessimists are right.
As long as clear and intelligent minds dictate what actions should be taken to combat this alleged effect, I agree. I feel, however, that this is not the case. Global warming is not a science, it is an industry, being run by people whose sole goal it is to make money. These people, through whatever organisation, or in whatever capacity are going to determine the best course of action to combat this alleged effect. Some, but not much, good will come of it.
Amidst all the uncertainty in data, data manipulation and pure speculation, one thing however can be said with 100 % certainty: Earth, and life on it, have suffered some major disasters, far greater than we are capable of inflicting at the moment and life rebounded every time.
There is apparently a self healing mechanism of some kind which brings the atmosphere back to a certain standard.
I have this feeling, that the combat against global warming will destroy this mechanism. That would be typical of the human way of things.
Meanwhile, the one thing that actually is going to be detrimental to earth is overpopulation. However, not much can be done against it apparently, due to religious and other egocentric reasons. Apparently a lot of humans feel entitled to having children.?! Our atmospheric pollution, and basically all other problems earth and the animals on it are facing, are just all side effects of this biological software bug: the need and urge to procreate. It is a much more serious issue than global warming.
Climate change is science - a topic with which you appear
to have a lot of opinion and attitude but no information.
You repeat platitudes that are based in fantasy pronouncements
made by ignorant people who do not know better. These
pronouncements can be referred to as the "magic" theory of
climate change.
Magic will save us. Meanwhile science and history show us
that many human societies collapsed under the stress of very
small climate changes. If there is a self healing magic the planet
possesses we know it takes thousands to millions of years and
we do NOT know if it works while an unsupervised experiment on
the effect of unrestricted release of megatons of GHG's into
the atmosphere is on-going.
Literally millions of species have gone extinct (dinosaurs anybody)
due to changes in the environment. They did NOT bounce back.
Genetics tell us that recently in human history - during the
last ice age - the total population of humans may have been
reduced to as few as 10K individuals. We were perilously
close to extinction.
You make a number ridiculous claims based presumably on your
internet education and feckless opinion. I cannot even begin
to tell you where you are wrong. It does go well with your
smug and condescending tone however. I, for one, would really
like to see a scientific paper describing this magic "rebound"
from extinction which will save us from catastrophe. Your
statement "...life rebounded every time." Is correct. Life
itself clung in the balance but millions of species simply
went extinct.
"Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." - George Bernard Shaw
