---

Climate does change naturally over time...the problem is, it is changing waaay too fast right now for it to be 100% not our fault.

---

No it's not. How fast do you think it's changing? Britain's summers are now generally 4 or 5 degrees warmer than they used to be (I've thought of that on the spot but it sounds about right to me, a jump from 32 to 37 celsius). That doesn't mean that planet temperatures have risen 4 or 5 degrees than 10 years prior. The planet's temperature has increased between 0.3 and 0.6 degrees celsius since 1850, most of that before 1940, when we really started mass scale fossil fuel burning. Well within the natural rate of temperature change since the last ice age, in fact at the lower end of the scale.

The planet is unusually cold at the moment: we're not supposed to have ice caps here. Polar Bears wouldn't normally exist on Earth, whether humans intervened or not. It's called natural selection, feeling sorry for polar animals is not justification to try and control our planet's climate.

What's not known by the average person, and generally not broadcast by the media, is that global warming isn't the only force affecting climate. There are several others, the three other major ones that I can think of being Global Cooling, Global Dimming and Global Brightening. Global Brightening just isn't happening, which leaves one warming force against two cooling forces. I've got to go to bed, but I can inform you more about them tomorrow if you so wish, and haven't looked into them for yourself.

Post edited at 3:55 pm on Sep. 13, 2007 by allsmiles

-------
When they leave me, they're all smiles.
When they leave you, they're in tears.