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Originally Posted by brp987
Allen - Can you quantify the effect on earth of this supposed increase in solar activity and demonstrate that it is more significant than other man-made or natural phenomena? Or is this your particular blind faith?
Regardless of the ultimate effects and causes of GW, worldwide demand and use of carbon is increasing and will continue until it is too expensive, because it's the cheapest thing out there. The chips will fall where they may.
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Well let's see concerning my "blind faith". Science up to this point in time has pointed out through geology etc. that the planet has warmed and cooled through out its history. We had a mile of ice over where I am sitting right now and it is no longer here. It melted way before we had American Capitalisim. So something happend other than free citizens driving their mini vans, SUVs or Boxsters. Since the ice cap is retreating on Mars and the other planets seem to be warming, according to astronomers and other scientists, and the sun seems to be getting larger and more active I would first consider that as a reason other than nasty old freedom and consumption. Since Mr. Sun is the source of all energy, be it stored in coal, oil etc. I would first suspect that maybe that is the ongoing cause of natural climate change over the centuries. Certainly there is no evidence to run off and create legislation that further taxes us and destroys our economy until we know for sure we are causing this 'change'. I am old enough to remember the same argument for the oncoming ice age back a few years ago, a disaster promoted by the same media that does it today for GW. If you call that blind faith then I guess you have blind faith in "political science" that is promoting this scam. Does it not bother you that NO contrary debate or evidence is tolerated? That should be the big tip off itself. So no, I don't believe we are causing what has been naturally happening since the beginning of time. The question remains, why do you?
AKL