Re:Global Warming?? (Score 1)

The idea that the climates and temperatures of the world have been pretty constant since humans began to exist is stupid. Climate change has been the rule not the exception of this planet since it's existence began. Assuming that this third more protective atmosphere was supposed to somehow change this continually evolving and changing climate is stupid. Thinking humans influence on the carbon cycle is going to somehow "ruin" the planet is also a stretch. Your belief in the current theories on the carbon cycle is a bit naive. To think that our current understanding of all the events in nature are well enough understood to know exactly what the net effect of forests and oceans and such have on CO2 levels is sufficient to make a reliable assessment is something far beyond naive. To say that a rainforest for example is a net CO2 sink is even a stretch as decaying plant and animal life produces CO2 and rainforest usually have decades worth of dead vegetation in a continual decaying state. I have lived in many swampy areas and they are the same. The smell most swamps give off make it seem obvious to me there is much more decay type things going on in them than there are photosynthotic type things. I don't care how many scientists you send to study such natural systems, you will never have a reliable idea of what is going on there. Also as a warming trend starts everything that happens naturally seems to lend more toward accelerating the warming trend. As ice(very reflective) melts more earth(very dark not at all reflective) becomes visible. This adds to a natural net heat gain and also the melting creates water vapor further helping hold heat that is absorbed. My feeling on the whole thing is that current understanding of the natural processes of this planet are still in their infancy. To believe any scientist or group of scientists has enough figured out to make a reliable assessment would just be a very naive thing to do. The nature of all intelligent people such as scientists is too be much more confident in their understanding of things than they should be. Our current state and level of knowledge and understanding of things is very small compared to what it could what it eventually will be. Knowledge and understanding of nature is still in prebirth stages. Humans will exist and further develop knowledge and understanding of nature and our universe for billions of years to come. To think that we are somehow in an advanced enough stage of this knowlege and understanding to figure things such as we are discussing several thousand years into developing it is a very large mistake and one of few that could abruptly end our current pace of learning. If you want world policy to take into account ideas and theories that are in infant or prebirth stages you go ahead and support that, but I for one WILL NOT!!