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Originally Posted by collie1228
If you are looking for "truth" in "the narrative" put forth by the climate people, you may find yourself on a fool's errand. There is so much misinformation on both sides, that the truth is probably impossible to know.
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Actually, I don't think anyone knows "the truth". We roughly know what the past 4 million years has been. But the future????
Yes, we are pumping large amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, but the question remains of whether that will cause a catastrophic shift in our climate or is just a drop in the bucket of climate change forces that are far more powerful than your SUV.
We simply don't have enough data for a long enough timespan to draw definitive conclusions one way or the other. Yes, both sides have presented pretty graphs derived from cherry picked data, but they MEAN NOTHING. Seven years of a cooling trend or 150 years of burning fossil fuels is irrelevant when trying to predict the future of a climate that has been cyclically alternating between periods of glaciation and interglacial thaws and driven by the power of the sun, Earth's orbit and axis changes.
I don't know the answer, but I'm pretty sure there is an agenda at work here. The "science" that the climate change advocates cite is given to us by climatologists who are almost universally owned by the government or the universities. Search other climate change threads. One poster has a son, a climatologist at a university, who challenged the global warming narrative---read what happened to him. The powers that be, through government grants, university tenure, and control of publications essentially have a gun held to the professional life of most climatologists. And I think it is obvious that the media is all too happy to push this narrative as well. There was a bad guy, about 85 years ago who said "the bigger the lie, the more people will believe it". It was one of the few things he had right.