Originally Posted by martinw  .....GW or CC should not be a matter of "belief".... |
Global Warming
is not a matter of belief it is a fact. If Global Warming had not occurred over the past few thousand years Donna would be prevented from travelling North much further than the Wisconsin border by a big pile of ice; that was about the maximum Southerly extent of the Ice Age that ended about 12,000 years ago. So I suppose Climate Change is also a fact.
What is not necessarily a fact is that human activity has had any role in Global Warming. What I think is pure delusional thinking is the belief that we can do anything about it
whether or not human activity has had an role in causing it. Actually if you read the pontifications coming out of the IPCC they acknowledge that any changes that are put into place now will not have an effect for about 100 years; while also saying (and I paraphrase a bit) unless we do something we will go past a "Tipping Point" in twenty years or so. Which to me seems a bit contradictory; if what we do now only has an effect 100 years from now how can we prevent something that will happen in 20 years?
IMNVHO the only person in this whole shemozzle who is talking or writing sense is Bjorn Lomborg.