PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
Why is it so hard to believe that we're fucking up the earth? Is it really that unfathomable? I mean, after 200 years, with 6 billion of us around drilling, extracting, processing, consuming, trashing, and burning the planet. Is it just unlimited? Can it really go on forever with absolutely NO repercussions?
Hmmm.
It's not that it is so hard to believe that man is responsible, it's simply that there are so many more important factors to include in the calculation. Consider volcanoes, swamp gas, methane from cows, all of which outweigh human effects. And of course, the single greatest factor, natural sun cycles: consider melting ice on Mars.
The analogy to remember is this: the anthropogenic theory of global warming is comparable to the fear that the numbers of Americans retiring to Florida will cause the continent to flip over.
Let's remember that governments benefit by controlling industry, and scientists stay in business by getting government grants for research.
Yes, let us consider the melting of the southern ice cap on Mars. Scientists claim that it is part of the normal cycle, but the denialists claim it is because of the increasing output of the sun. And in the next sentence, claim that we are in danger of another ice age because of the present spotless sun. Bit of a contradiction here.
Vocanoes cause cooling in the normal course of things. The only type of eruption that causes warming is the Trapp Volcanics, and none of that is going on at present. Think Tambora, Krakatoa, and Pinitubo.
The analogy that you present is ridiculous. AGW is based on the physics of the absorbtion and emission spectra of CO2. Physics well established over one hundred years ago.
Your last sentence is also stupidly ridiculous. So you say that scientists from every nation in the world are all lying on the behest of their respective government for the control of business. Talk about a convoluted conspiracy theory.
If you are choosing to explain melting on earth, and on Mars as two different phenomena, you may be infracting a basic mathematical principle: Occam's Razor.