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I guess I shouldn't mention that less than 15,000 years ago Antarctica was a thriving, flourishing GREEN and lush continent. There are MAPS of Antarctica that were copied by pre-eminent medieval map makers such as Piri Reis that he claims to have copied from an older source that have been proven with satellite mapping techniques to be EXTREMELY ACCURATE as to what lies MILES under the ice. Obviously, people not only lived there but lived there long enough to map it all out.... But it's under miles of ice and is an inhospitible wasteland now. Such is the way of the earth and the cycles that carry it through time and space. The state of things is always changing. There have been global warming trends that have flooded coastal regions and wiped out entire societies (much archaeological research has been done on this and many aquatic archeological sites are being researched as we speak... some were flooded many many thousands of years ago at the end of the last mini ice-age). Human beings always have a need to feel like they are in control or responsible, it's very difficult for mankind NOT to have some manipulation on the world around them. But in this, even if everyone stopped driving tomorrow, even if EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE WORLD STOPPED POLLUTING TOMORROW, the cycle would still carry on and really nothing would change as far as where the climate is going. Global warming (AND cooling) will happen regardless of people.
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