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(11-22-2012 12:30 PM)teh_skeeze Wrote:  

Another thing that I think gets conveniently overlooked is that we were coming out of the Little Ice Age when weather records were first being kept. During the height of the Egyptian Empire, the Earth's Average Temperature was considerably warmer. If you look at the graph on the first link, you would think that the Earth is warming at an alarming rate. However, when you look at the second graph, not only has there been more rapid warming in the past, we are still cooler than in the past.

Environmentalists are the most egotistical bunch of people. You aren't going to save the world. The only thing we are destroying is ourselves. The Earth will be fine.

The globe's climate indeed changes drastically over scales of tens of thousands of years. Yes, Europe will once again be buried under a mile or two of ice at some point in the distant future long after we're dead. That we have no control over(for now). What we also see is climate change on a much shorter time scale than can be explainable by earth's natural processes(which slowly occur over eons, not decades). It's pretty much a case-closed argument to all but the most ideological people on the right that man is causing this short-term climate change by industry and pollution. And we need to understand how this is going to effect our future. There are some places where crops are grown now that will not be able to grow them in the future. And of course there are also some places that may gain more arable land because of climate change. But we don't know all the ways yet it will effect us. That's why we need to continue research. But one thing we can't do is deny that the matter even exist in the first place.