blnymph
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ORIGINAL: blnymph Well besides the fact that nobody claimed that climate would have been, is, will ever be, static, and also besides whatever doubts abouts human influences the fact remains that a climate change IS happening right now. The problem with dismissing the cause for the sake of agreement is that it affects the way solutions are approached. If humans aren't causing it, CO2 must not be a climate driver, so why would we need to do anything about CO2 emissions? In fact, why take any action at all since it's all natural and interfering would be like interfering with God or the universe or whatever is doing it and has been doing it for so long? No, accepting that humans are responsible is the only way we can honestly approach this issue on any level... everything else is letting the denialists control the discussion. There really aren't any legitimate doubts about the cause...it's the effects that are more difficult to predict. I personally do not doubt that human burning of fossile carbon fuel increased and increases the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. It can hardly be otherwise. There can also not be any doubt that CO2 has a climate effect, as well as CH4 (methane), the already mentioned CFCs, and a few more releases into atmosphere, and further man-made as well as natural processes. Whether the effect of any of these contributes to what percentage to what is happening, and is of what importance, alone and/or in combination with others, is advanced hair-splitting, and close to nonsensical concerning how much (or how little) we know about the interchanging influences between those single factors which are just to be slowly understood. What mankind can control is man-made influences. As simple as that. Not quite of course these days; but the time of hair-splitting is running out.
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