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Originally Posted by EonBlue
The problem we have today is climatologists trying to predict the future based on faulty data and faulty models. We should listen to paleoclimatologists who specialize in the climate of the past. For example:
Prepare for new Ice Age now says Top Paleoclimatologist
During the last interglacial, the Eemian, it was warmer than it is today and sea level was far higher than now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eemian
So everything that alarmists are crying about now has happened before, to greater extremes than now, without human influence yet we are are supposed to kneecap civilization and spend trillions of dollars trying to stop something that is going to occur naturally anyways?
It just doesn't make any sense.
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Ok. I will try to explain.. I think the problem is you don't see is the time scale in which these events took place. No one disputes that the earth has cooled / warmed or that the oceans have risen / lowered or that the ice sheets have melted or refrozen in the past. There is no argument about these things, just as there is no argument that CO2 levels have been very high in the past (due to volcanic eruptions).
What you seem to not see in your argument, is in the past those changes in tempeture, rising and lowering of the oceans and melting and refreshing of the ice caps, took thousands of years to happen. Meanwhile what we see today caused by the co2 created by man has happened in roughly 100 years.
This is why it's called man made global warming. Yes the same thing might happen over the course of a few thousand years, but the difference is we have drastically increased the process by the co2 gasses humans have put into the air due to the burning of fossil fuels. Also there is no scientific proof to support your theory that the sun or earth has shifted to cause this effect.
The only thing major that is changing at this moment is the magnetic poles and there is no evidence which shows that could be the cause.. All evidence points to the excess co2 gas that humans are producing.