"people THINK that indutrialization is responsible, the fact is that the temperature of the earth varies quite significantly. There have been several large varriations of temperatures in the past century. There were many large storms in the 50-60, then it slowed down, and now its going back up. The coldest time recorded i believe was in the mid 1850's. The net difference since 1850 is several degrees, but i doubt its that significant compared to the last 10,000 years. It is possible that in 100 years there may be fear of global cooling (guess who the enviromentalists will blame that on). "
What has happened in the last 100 or 200 or even 500 years is, for the most part, unimportant. People need to start thinking on a much longer-term time scale than their considerably short lives. The global warming problem is important in this respect. The problems with global warming models occur on time spans of several 100's to 1000's of years. What's would happen in the next 50 or 100 years is irrelevent. This is why it is important to assume that "global warming" theory is correct, even if it is hogwash. Only now, at basically the beginning, do we stand a reasonable chance of determing an outcome that may not be realized for several hundred years. If we can act in a way that would logically benefit the future, is it not our responsibility to do so? In all reality, is does not make sense to spend 20-100 years arguing about the data when the time to act is now. The only thing that could happen as a result of immediate action is a better world.
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"people THINK that indutrialization is responsible, the fact is that the temperature of the earth varies quite significantly. There have been several large varriations of temperatures in the past century. There were many large storms in the 50-60, then it slowed down, and now its going back up. The coldest time recorded i believe was in the mid 1850's. The net difference since 1850 is several degrees, but i doubt its that significant compared to the last 10,000 years. It is possible that in 100 years there may be fear of global cooling (guess who the enviromentalists will blame that on). "
What has happened in the last 100 or 200 or even 500 years is, for the most part, unimportant. People need to start thinking on a much longer-term time scale than their considerably short lives. The global warming problem is important in this respect. The problems with global warming models occur on time spans of several 100's to 1000's of years. What's would happen in the next 50 or 100 years is irrelevent. This is why it is important to assume that "global warming" theory is correct, even if it is hogwash. Only now, at basically the beginning, do we stand a reasonable chance of determing an outcome that may not be realized for several hundred years. If we can act in a way that would logically benefit the future, is it not our responsibility to do so? In all reality, is does not make sense to spend 20-100 years arguing about the data when the time to act is now. The only thing that could happen as a result of immediate action is a better world.