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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
OK, I waded through it and distilled it to this: You agree that the Earth has been warming for 20,000 years but now human activity is adding to the warming that would have occurred naturally. Fair point, I'm sure we are contributing, but to what extent? Probably very, very little. Best analysis from climatologists who are not being held hostage by the current narrative is that we are delaying the next period of glaciation by about 8,000 years. But that is due to the rise of agriculture in Asia since 7,000 BC, not anything to do with fossil fuels.
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I think that you are selling short the massive effects of fossil fuel. I imagine that if ZERO fossil fuel existed on planet Earth, we would have only 3 billion people instead of 8 billion. We would have to be using wind power and HUGE batteries to cross the oceans and air travel would be difficult (zeppelins anyone).
.......Note.......If we had only 3 billion people on Earth then the upper atmosphere would NOT have enough CO2 stuck there to refract HEAT and the Earth would NOT be warming rapidly. So, I would not have to BITCH about people buying electric cars. We could live with the stinky Infernal Combustion Engines.