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Originally Posted by punky
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Originally Posted by Incognitas
I did think about calling this thread 'Make up your damned minds'.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4880328.stm
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Reduced air pollution and increased water evaporation appear to be adding to man-made global warming.
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Frankly I'm beginning to wonder if anyone knows anything...let alone everything. |
Without trying to appear smug, but that's been my argument all along, when I had these debates with Graham. My argument is that global warming is like a gun. We have enough intelligence to invent guns, but not use them responsibly. Likewise, we have enough intelligence to monitor and react to nature, but not enough to understand it. I like this graph a lot. What on earth were our ancestors upto causing that level of CO2 I don't know. Some might see a pattern in that graph. There are lots of contradictory graphs and such.
This issue isn't new though. I was actually going to bring this up. I have just finished Crichton's "State Of Fear" book, and this issue was mentioned in there, and I was getting around to righting a good review in that "What are you reading thread". |
I too have been sceptical..mainly because the present day theories are based on a small period of time in relation to the actual world history..For all we know this is a normal variation in a whole range of variations.The trouble is every scientist HAS to justify his/her pay and research money so they have to be drawing conclusions when maybe the time scale is too small.I think that we need to be seeing if the trends in the data continue or slow or increase over a truly more significent period of time.I think this planet has a lot more to teach us puny humans and find it staggering that anyone can claim to know what will happen next on such recent data.
Frankly people have been complaining about pollution since I was small and I can remember the truly terrible London smogs of the 50's.I just can't believe that sorting those out has made the environment worse???