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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
https://www.nationalacademies.org/ba...CAAEgKrQ_D_BwE
What bothers me is the logic of climate change deniers. They say that it is a pattern of centuries or something like that. But what happens to the people living decade to decade or year to year? We humans may all be dead by 2122 at the rate we are changing the earth now.
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Surprising coming from someone as educated as yourself.
Our climate
IS changing, it has done so many, many times. For example, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, it was about 10-12 degrees warmer world wide. Twenty thousand years ago, half the northern hemisphere was covered in 2 miles of ice and it was 7-8 degrees colder on average. This is just fact, it would be illogical to deny it.
However, NONE of that has anything to do with humans burning fossil fuels. I again challenge those who believe that is the cause to tell me what model of SUV Fred Flintstone drove. To date, none of the "humans caused climate change believers" have even attempted to answer that question.
The last 4 million years have seen a cycle of repeated periods of glaciation and interglacial thaws that last not decades, not centuries, but 80-100,000 years. For anyone to make any assumptions based on the last 50 years is a joke. After all, Uncle Al said the polar ice caps would be gone by 2010, instead they are actually growing slowly. In the 1970's, the great fear was another ice age was imminent.
Unless we nuke ourselves into oblivion or the big asteroid comes to get us, we will be just fine in 2122---because "the rate at which we are changing the planet" is just about nil in comparison to the forces that drive climate change (the sun, variations in Earth's orbit and the tilt of its axis)