This better not effect my holiday to Florida in April or I will be ******!
I'm pretty sure there is proof that the earth naturally heats up and cools down (something to do with the rotation of the earth around the sun) so the possibility of "global warming" being natural is partially factual and partially a theory, whereas global warming is purely a theory.
I personally am just sick of cutting emissions and Prius' being rammed down our throat..
Yes, but that was a long time a go, there's statistical and geological evidence to prove that the Earth's atmosphere is warming up now, and there's proof that it warmed up thousands of years ago. No one is dying that climate change is happening, and has happened, and will happen again, but there's no way to separate the theory behind why the climate changed then and why it's happening now. Until we can get a clear picture of exactly why the Earth did and is changing climate, it's false to say global warming is just a myth. It's one of the great scientific challenges of our generation to solve this problem.
The Sun can get brighter and release more energy causing us to heat up, among other reasons why we might warm up. But we have no way to prove the reasoning why we are warming up right now. I don't really believe global warming right now, but I believe it would be ignorant of us and a scientific failing if we just assume, "this has happened before, it must be the same reason now" the risks of us doing that are far greater than the benefits. I mean, how much of an impact does it really have on our lives to turn the computer off, take the TV off standby, turn lights off and turn the fire off? Very little. If in a few decades cataclysmic events hit the Earth, which we had the chance to stop, I'm sure many people would be regretting not putting the extra effort in.
I also believe that humanity advances best in the face of adversity. Science is putting a great effort into investigating this problem, creating new technologies and others already created. Even things like the Prius, the Science behind things like regenerative braking is pretty smart, and that's just the beginning of the advancement. If global warming and fossil fuel shortage never happened, we'd be falling behind this development. I mean, we're even beginning to create energy by Nuclear Fission on a massive scale, in the lab!
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Someone sounds like an angry man. Take it you're not getting any?
I just dislike people acting like mini-scientists and that they know everything, stating their opinion as fact.
There is scientific evidence that global warming is/isn't happening, and evidence that it is/isn't us causing it. It is just a matter of who's evidence you go with.
Just read some of this...
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html
I agree that it is happening, and that we contribute to it, but only a small amount.
Explained this in my last post, but so what if it happened before? I'm fully aware of that fact, and it's not evidence at all, some may say it's the opposite. Some analogies: We know Tim Cahill usually scores goals with his head, when you hear he scored in a game do we automatically assume it was with his head? No, because there's other possibilities. The majority of Chocolate is milk, if someone offers you some, do you assume it's milk, but what if you get white/dark? I could go on, you get the point.
