crockett, I see what you are saying.
I'm arguing that a volcano is "normal" (unfortunately) if there IS any "normal" in the earth.
Scientists believe there were actually 4 pretty big volcanoes around the world that erupted leading to the "little ice age".
Matter of fact they believe the eruptions lasted for FIFTY years.
Not sure what the human lifespan was back then...but I'm guessing nowhere even close to 50 years. So the medieval crockett could have been born, lived his life, and died without ever knowing anything BUT an Earth that didn't have as much sunlight reaching it.
That medieval crockett would have thought that was "normal".
Also take a look at this:
The point I'm making is...there is definitely enough historical evidence to show that nature itself has caused climate change DRASTICALLY at times. At other times it has been a slower process and at other times it has happened at about the rate it does now.
In other words...the Earth does what it wants, when it wants.
Do I think that mankind could change things enough to endanger ourselves (not the Earth)?
Yeah.
I think we could have every nation on Earth fire off all their nuclear missiles and fuck shit up really bad.
Do I believe that CO2 emissions are doing anything?
Well, they MIGHT have helped raise the Earth's temp by 1 and 1/2 degrees over the last 100 years.
How much of that 1 and 1/2 degrees is mankind is up for debate. Maybe we caused 50% of that ourselves over what the Earth was going to do anyway? Who knows?
Not one scientist on the face of this Earth can answer that with absolute knowledge.
But let's say mankind DID cause 50% of it. That would be 3/4's of one degree temp change caused by all of mankind.
I don't think that's enough to warrant carbon taxing, carbon trading, and alarmist's trying to change our entire society, culture, and lifestyle while THEY (the leaders of the alarmists) continue to live the same exact way they are telling us NOT to live.
Surely you can see why myself and so many people are skeptical (and rightly so), especially after all the "sky is falling" alarmist's predictions that have turned out to be false in the last few decades.