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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

This appears to be the most genuine post in the thread so far.

Would you consider "human-participation" as fair? That - we have probably not caused climate change OR global warming OR whatever else (some claim the government created the hurricanes...) - but rather, the Agricultural and Industrial ages have *contributed* to the changes?

Things like deforestation, building skyscrapers and roads on shorelines, which contributes to erosion, which contributes to shifts in tides and the patterns of marinelife, drilling holes in the ground and sucking out the oil to burn into the atmosphere, which can have SOME kind of impact, even if it's not significant, on the planet's ability to insulate itself from the sun?

I'm not judging these things that we've done in this post. I'm just stating that - we have done these things. I'm asking if you feel that what we've done MIGHT have contributed to - rather than caused - the recent changes in climate.

Whether that contribution has resulted in faster change, or more extreme change, or more frequency of the same extremes, or changing locations of those changes... just in general. Do you agree or disagree that we, the human race, have in fact contributed to change in some way?

I think we have.

There is no proof man-made CO2 harms our climate -- otherwise there would be a report saying so.