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Originally Posted by Omaroo
Not sure that your condescension is appreciated Chris. You have your own (complete) bias. You're not right. No-one is yet. We have no definitive answers. It's a debate about being able to identify the real reasons for warming and whether it is induced by humans, which is a long, long way from being proven, or whether it is almost entirely natural. It is not about whether warming is evident. I believe that too much green politics is at stake for us to ever know a truthful answer. I also wonder why some are arrogant enough to think that weather patterns haven't changed quickly at times throughout history anyway and that we must therefore be responsible for this one just because some think we are. Change is undeniable, the reason for its being is questionable.
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Well said, Chris.
The other thing that is undeniable is that we (humans) are an environmental disease on the planet. Our population is out of control. Our economies are based on growth... on a planet of finite size, with finite resources... think about the consequences of that for while.
We are responsible for countless extinctions, and the loss of biodiversity. In short we
are making the planet sick... we cannot continue going the way we have been.
But having looked at the evidence, it is not definitive that the current warming is human induced - that is still being debated. The fact that green scientists have found the global warming lever to extract funding is fine... we need to do it, we need to resolve what our impact really is and we need to change what we do regardless, but the media (who don't all understand the science) have a bias towards anything alarmist and the message we receive through the media is coloured/flavoured a particular way in general.
Al.