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Originally Posted by simbob
How is our failure to address the threat adequately relevant to the determination of the existence of the threat, the cause of the threat or the scope of the threat?
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Good point
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Originally Posted by simbob
As to consensus, the use of the word is an understatement. The overwhelming weight of peer-reviewed scientific opinion indicates that human activity, particularly the burning of fossil fuels and the reduction of the rain forests, has dramatically increased the concentrations of CO2 and ozone in the atmosphere, reduced their re-processing and accelerated the warming of the planet.
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The first part your paragraph is understandable to me, but I am getting lost toward the end. We can empirically prove that temperature is either rising or not, and we can empirically prove that we are producing some amount of CO2. What I don’t understand at this point is how we know that the two events are linked.
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Originally Posted by simbob
The existence of natural cycles does not refute the reality of our actions or of their effect.
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It does though if it proves the relationship between man’s CO2 output and global warming is a spurious one.