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Originally Posted by Normal
Pardon me if I just chirp in with a little science and fact. The Earth has been warming for quite some time. Underwater cities, some more than 10,000 years old riddle our seas across the globe. Their fates sealed by melting ice that initiated long, long, long ago before “recorded” history. The poles and glaciers have been continuously melting many millennia prior to mankind’s big Industrial Revolution.
It has been getting warmer, but man has had little to do with it.
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Right... up to a point. Earth, and the entire solar system, evolved as natural events and forces were the only players. But when humans came on the scene, things changed, slowly at first. Our numbers grew. Our abilities grew. Instead of existing as a part of nature, we were able to live
apart from nature, changing our habitat, altering nature. Nature built us, but we now have the power to alter nature in ways we are just beginning to understand. In a way, it's like humans created computers. We are creating artificial intelligence and IT will surpass our ability to control it ... if we aren't careful.
Humans have far more to do with the speed of global warming than you realize.