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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Please note that this is a GENERAL DISCUSSION thread and not a POLITICS thread.
Opinions here do not necessarily need to be backed up by links or facts, they can be just straight up opinion.
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Which is exactly why the global warming 'debate' angers me so much.
You have people totally uneducated on the issue, or worse misinformed by those with an agenda using climate change as a scare tactic, making opinions and voting on political policy on a purely scientific question. This isn't like a gay marriage question, or gun control, but hard science.
Global climate change is MOST definitely something we need to worry about, but from a rational scientific stance, not throwing our hands in the air, yelling the sky is falling, and pointing fingers at whats to blame.
Over all reaching a climate optimum again would be better for the world as a whole and devastating for specific areas. For example Europe and North East of the US would do better, have better crop yields and more mild temperatures. The US Southwest on the other hand would become far more desert like, and worse 'young' islands like in the Caribbean as well as low lying costal areas will be underwater again (as they were about 5000 years ago).
The other worry of course is another ice age, which would be far far more devastating than the warming.
Everything should be looked at but only with a trained dispassionate eye.