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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
I agree.
To a point.
I mean, I'm sure that you are correct. The fossil record shows that climate change is cyclic. We're probably due. Not too much that we can really do about that. Adapt, I guess.
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There is a 100,000 year cycle (Ice ages anyone) and they also surprising found a much milder 1,500 year cycle. It is this cycle that we are in (well we are always in it but its the warming cycle of it) and if true it WILL get a bit hotter and then, again as seen in the middle ages, it WILL get colder again. This is documented by both polar ice cores and corroborated by history. Europe was warmer in the times of the Romans, got cold in the middle ages (which caused much of the problems) and is getting warmer again.
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However...to claim that all of the pollutants, that mankind has belched into the atmosphere just over the past hundred years, have not had a significant effect is a bit naive. Don't you think? Seriously? I mean it has to have had some impact on all of this. Even if it's just a simple escalation.
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So you tell me is the very minimal warming effect human produced CO2 causing offset by the particulate pollutants which would reflect sunlight? No one knows but the one thing thats apparent is that its very MINOR. Hell we might even be slowing down the warming with our dust clouds acting much like increased cloud cover. I used to fly small aircraft and being around Chicago you could always find it first by the big brown cloud before you saw it over the horizon.
We don't KNOW the effects but I do not think they are anywhere near worthy of acting all hysterical about it. As you know from my past postings it annoys me to no end to have people with absolutely no scientific backgrounds or even interests acting like we have to do SOMETHING now in some feel good gesture. Not that you fit this group of course, but you don't have to ask around to long to find someone like that.