gizmo_2655 wrote on Jun 16
th, 2011 at 1:09pm:
PN, why do you consistently try to convince people that humans are causing things that have existed naturally since long before the first hominid ancestor evolved????
Yes, the Greenhouse Effect is real, and has been around for as long as life has existed on Earth (in fact it's the reason life DOES exist on Earth.)
The same thing applies to climate change....it's been happening for billions of years...
Humans didn't 'cause' the climate to change nor did we cause the Greenhouse Effect....
You might as well say gravity is caused by the obesity epidemic among children....
It's good to see you agree, Gizmo, that "the Greenhouse Effect is real".
So, in the spirit of co-operation, I will agree that "Climate Change has been around for Billions of years, long before humans arrived".
I will also agree that, "humans did not cause/originate Climate Change, nor the Greenhouse Effect".
However, humans have impacted the Environment of this planet, of that there is no doubt, the only arguement is how much & what are the likely effects on current & future generations of Humans & other species?
What these and the majority of scientists are saying, is that the human impact on this planets delicate Environment, is just sufficient enough (over time) to tip the natural balance away from what would have happened, but for our impact.
In doing so, our nudge has been like many humans, who eat & drink many things, which are ok in moderation, but many of us consume too much of these things that are normally ok and the end result is many of us become obese or acquire other diseases, such as Diabetes.
The end result is the quality of many peoples lives is not what it should be and many will die a premature death! And that's not even counting gravity?
So, what I'm doing is giving people the facts, so they can make up their minds, whether they want to continue business as usual and lose the quality of their life & of future generations AND die prematurely OR do they want to take proper mitigation measures, to try to stop what will happen to Humans, if the Climate Changes in the directions that we are nudging it to?
In other words Climate Change has some similarities to Obesity, in that it takes a long time to build up and while that is happening few recognise what is happening.
Then, one day, we wake up a realise we are fat and take action OR we don't realise & we don't wake up, we just die?
Is that what you want, for us & our children?