Originally posted by Sugarphreak
Do I think the climate is changing? Yes, absolutely… it has been changing and will continue to change as it always has and always will. Do I think that pollutants are changing the climate? They likely play a contributing factor…
but are not the absolute cause by any means. The world has gone through dramatic changes in climate, I am not ignorant enough to think that suddenly it went static and the only reason it changes is because of people. Really if you look at a bigger picture, the climate changes we experience now are blips on the radar.
What if the world is heading for another ice age? What if the world is heading for a warmer climate? What impact is our presence here really having and is it truly bad, or is it fighting against an even worse natural outcome?
Things like the ozone… yes, man made a hole in it and I congratulate the world on tackling the issue. Since then it has been self repairing… and surprisingly they are crediting the extra C02 as being a factor in a much faster than expected restoration of it. So on the plus side of driving your car to work instead of biking we are not being bombarded with nearly as much radiation.
To me what it comes down to is that global warming scientists… sorry, climate change scientists…. are trying to prove a theory, a theory that has a lot of lucrative little business opportunities embedded within it often with funding from those same businesses. If we can’t even figure out the natural climate change that is occurring, how can we then compare that to a modified one?
The planet is too complex to try and draw definitive conclusions like this… this is why there is a global warming expedition stuck in the ice they projected didn’t even exist during the middle of the Antarctic summer. How naive do you have to be to think you can draw conclusions like that?
All I see is two sides with their own agenda, the truth is lost somewhere in between.