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Originally Posted by Superbelt
FLSTF: What the sun does and what we get out of it are two different things. We are getting farther away from the sun (on average) for several thousand years now and will continue this for thousands more. It's part of an ellyptical to circular cycle that our planet has. The math says we should be cooling off. Reading the carbon concentrations in our atmosphere, our current temperature shift gels with the stated energy absorption properties of carbon. |
I don't doubt that pollution is not a good thing for many reasons. But from what little I have read the Earth appears to have been through some tremendous temperature swings in the past. The last book I read speculated that it was a warm up period that caused the desert areas to bloom and allowed our ancestors to walk out of Africa.
I'm just wondering if we are not blowing this thing out of proportion. The Earth will go through it's ice ages and warm up periods no matter what we do. During the last ice age the glaciers were as far south as where I live on the Ohio River. I think that if we think that our activities can have a major impact on these things we may be kidding ourselves.