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Originally Posted by CybrSage
Logical fallacies are never a reason to believe something is true.
That said, the Earth definitely is warming and would be even if humans never existed. The Milkanovitch Cycles, which have been accepted scientific fact since the 79s when their predictions still matches reality,show this clearly. They also clearly show CO2 level changes follow temp changes by a few hundred years, at least it has been such for the last 400,000 years or so
The issue is how much does man add to the temp rise, and this question cannot be answered by our current understanding of how our climate works. Right now, our addition falls into the margin of error, which is unfortunately very large.
The reason man's addition is what really matters is that if it is a scant 1%, then nothing we do matters. If it is 99%, then destroying economies and causing misery and suffering is a must.
We are quite sure it is neither of those two extremes, with it most likely being at the lower end, but we need to learn more before we know how to respond.
Those who say it is already too late are simply liars. Just like the guy who won a Nobel Prize for lying about glaciers all being gone in 2015.
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Glaciers are certainly NOT GONE. They are just going, going. That is the phase we are in. I won't be alive to see the GONE GLACIERS phase. But, from what I have seen, people are slow to recognize problems. The world has ignored climate change for FAR too long. At least, the United Nations is taking it seriously. America was slow to react to WW2, so I expect that America to be one of the LAST countries to react to HEAT caused DEATHS because America is led around by the nose by its oil and gas LOBBY. Arizona and Texas have been reporting a record number of Heat related deaths this year. I wonder if any HEAT related deaths will be reported because of Hurricane Francine ?