http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2008/02/11/a-2000-year-global-temperature-record/
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I'm not going to go too deep here. I dont have the time.
There is a thing called Nature and Evolution. Nature will overcome all and we will evlove or die. Thats it , end of story.
The world will take care of itself. The impact we have as a species is like a pimple on the butt of mother earth. We really are not that significant in her lifetime.
JMO...:beer:
Couldn't have said it better. Taking the words right outta my mouth haha
Co2 is a greenhouse gas. This is scientific fact. Can you not accept that?
Life on earth flourishes like it does because of our climate which is regulated by greenhouse gases. So far we have had a warming of 0.75 degrees C this is causing the arctic to melt, seasons to change, species migration, changes in rainfall patterns and many more important ecological changes, that are critical for life on this planet.
First off, I think you could benefit from researching the topic a little more, your cloudy perspective makes me believe you have not done much, if any research about climate change, anthropogenic or natural.
This is a great place to start. Just remember, research as many angles as you can, and come to your own conclusion.
http://rps3.com/Files/AGW/EngrCritique.AGW.Science.3.pdf
Secondly, I think everyone should read Michael Crichton's work, starting with Jurassic Park. This is a quote from JP (written in 1990, long before the AGW theories came about) that sums up everything that is happening today perfectly. Highly recommend is work, he was a very intelligent man and way ahead of his time.
"You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There's been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years. Bacteria first; later the first multicellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea, on the land. Then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years, great dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away -- all this against a background of continuous and violent upheaval. Mountain ranges thrust up, eroded away, cometary impacts, volcano eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving, an endless, constant, violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of years. Earth has survived everything in its time. It will certainly survive us. If all the nuclear weapons in the world went off at once and all the plants, all the animals died and the earth was sizzling hot for a hundred thousand years, life would survive, somewhere: under the soil, frozen in Arctic ice. Sooner or later, when the planet was no longer inhospitable, life would spread again. The evolutionary process would begin again. It might take a few billion years for life to regain its present variety. Of course, it would be very different from what it is now, but the earth would survive our folly, only we would not. If the ozone layer gets thinner, ultraviolet radiation sears the earth, so what? Ultraviolet radiation is good for life. It's powerful energy. It promotes mutation, change. Many forms of life will thrive with more UV radiation. Many others will die out. Do you think this is the first time that's happened? Think about oxygen. Necessary for life now, but oxygen is actually a metabolic poison, a corrosive gas, like fluorine. When oxygen was first produced as a waste product by certain plant cells some three billion years ago, it created a crisis for all other life on earth. Those plants were polluting the environment, exhaling a lethal gas. Earth eventually had an atmosphere incompatible with life. Nevertheless, life on earth took care of itself. In the thinking of the human being a hundred years is a long time. A hundred years ago we didn't have cars, airplanes, computers or vaccines. It was a whole different world, but to the earth, a hundred years is nothing. A million years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can't imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven't got the humility to try. We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us."