> On Sep 1, 12:48 pm, nik.morgan
talktalk.net> wrote:>> Just one, even a minor one, of your unscheduled co2 events has more effect
>> than humans have ever had, yet somehow the planet adjusts exactly as it has
>> since time began. If these natural cycles result in the demise of our
>> species
>> then there is nothing we can do about it, the scale of the forces involved
>
> Well thats the point isn't it. I don't think anyone is suggesting
> we're going to turn the earth into a barren wasteland devoid of life ,
Agreed, though we could if we engaged in global thermonecular war, but
measured in geological time frames even that would only be temporary.
> but we may (or may not) mess it up enough to make our lives pretty
> unpleasant. Now you may not care about that but I do and so do plenty
> of others.
The crucial word here is 'may' signifying that this is, at best, a guess.
Sorry I don't subscribe to the same conclusions. Got any hard evidence to
back up the scaremongering?
>
>> make our efforts puny by comparison, if you think global climate change is
>> man driven then you are delusional.
>
> Similarly if you think what we do will have no effect then I think
> you're being optimistic.
Evidence?
There will probably be feedback effects that
> kick in with raised temperatures such as more cloud cover etc that
> could mitigate much of the change - problem is no one really knows ,
Probably, that's another good word, signifying yet again guesswork.
> but pretending that we're not forcing the climate just as much as if
> this CO2 rise had occurred naturally is just ignoring basic physics.
Evidence?
> CO2 is CO2 whatever the source - it doesn't know or care about its
> provenance.
Seems you also don't care about facts, Daily Wail reader are we?
CO2 is important, it''s a new label that governments can float rafts of new
taxation on, use to form new quango's to deal with it and create a whole new
industry with it's support systems, a real money spinner.
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