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Originally Posted by WarChild
Yes, it is pretty much a scientific fact that temperatures have been slightly increasing, on average, for a brief time now. A brief time in the history of this World, at least. The disspute is not if it has been getting warmer but rather why has it been getting warmer and could it be part of a natural cycle.
20 years ago we were going to be seeing a new ice age soon. Now, we're all going to die in rising seas and be scortched by super temperatures. Excuse me if it all seems a bit dramatic.
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Actually, 20 years ago, global warming was still front-and-center.... it just didn't have Al "I invented the internet" Gore as a main player behind the information push.
I can remember a cover of Discover Magazine when I was 11 or 12 (21+ years ago) that had an artists rendition of NYC under water.
As far as the ice age, thing... that might have still been a factor because, if you understand world temperature dynamics, and how the oceanic conveyer works, you'll also realize how global warming can - and (whether natural or artificial) eventually will, in fact, lead to the next ice age.
Again, it's not our world we're saving, or even humanity, really... we'd be smart enough to migrate to the equator in an ice age - and the world'll be here long after the last homo sapien is extinct... I think it's really just a matter of figuring out if it's possible that we're to blame for our environmental changes, and being responsible enough to try and lessen the negative impact we have on our environment for the benefit of other species.
Are we to blame? that's up for debate, sure... but I, for one, tend to think that the action of throwing a lot of foreign compounds into our atmosphere for over 100 years now has to have some sort of reaction.... and we're only going to be doing it to a greater extent if we continue on our current path.