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Originally Posted by swifttal
 
Wheh! That's a good one... though you do have a point, even the best idiots can't be wrong 100% of the time |
define best idiot.... kind of oxymoronic....
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Originally Posted by Supermans
You obviously believe in most of the mumbo jumbo theoretical science that is laid out as fact in classroom science textbooks without the other opinions of half the scientists around the world who oppose such theories.
Before we all had automobiles in the not too distant past and before the population was as large as it is now, we had massive climate change occur within recorded history and scientists have uncovered lots of evidence that the Earth has gone through quite a few cooling and heating periods.
With the sun getting more erratic as time goes on (since it is an uncontrolled massive gaseous fireball) which we have no control over and the possibility of asteroids and meteors the size of Texas falling to Earth. It is foolish to think we as a collective people are causing any type of massive amounts of climate change unlike anything that has happened before. Taxing Michael Moore's and other cow's methane filled gaseous farts is not going to solve any theoretical global warming/global cooling/climate change or whatever scientists come up next.
Why is it so hard for die hard global warming fanatical believers to believe that the Earth's climate is cyclical and naturally occurring with or without human influence? When the world does go into this "cooling period" that is being predicted, how will scientists want to counteract it then??? Increase the cow population tenfold and feed them re-fried beans along with their grass???
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wow.... you did read my post right? I didnt say that humans are soley responsible for climate change. I said that we are adding to it and increasing its rate. I said that the earth goes thru heating and cooling phases and right now we are getting to the peak of one of the heating phases before we will begin another cooling phase.
dont tell me what I obviously believe. just like the auto vs manual threads, when everyone and their mother was spouting for the manual being better than the auto, I put up plenty of info going the other way. and as such I was labeled as an auto-maniac. regardless of the fact that I have put up the same amount of info for the manual.
before we had automobiles and before our population was even half of what it is now, we had a massive flood that covered the earth.... or did we? who knows.
you obviously have a closed mind and arent willing to investigate both sides of an argument before you remark on the subject.
and gtahvit, perhaps fragile isnt the correct term. the climate is very durable for the most part. but it has an achilles heel which is the north atlantic current.
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meteorites, nuclear bombs/testing, Ice ages, volcanoes, polution, deforestation,
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as for meteorites.... when was the last time a meteorite struck earth of enough size to do anything to the climate?
nuclear bombs/testing....why do you think testing was moved to below surface testing instead of above ground testing? how many nuclear weapons have been used since their creation?
Ice ages have happened, and will happen again.
volcanoes.... when was the last sizeable volcano eruption? not just oozing magma in florida, but something like pompeii? that actually put enough into the atmosphere to have an effect on things?
pollution.... we are adding to it. just because we havent seen any immediate effects, does not mean that we are not on the edge of the table before things take a turn for the worst.
deforestation... what about it? the fact that we are reducing the amount of trees/plants in the world which then cause a decrease in the amount of co2 that is taken from the atmosphere?