Khristeeanos #fundie

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I don't believe that global warming is happening. I don't believe that humans can destroy a globe that they didn't create.

Besides, after the entire history of the universe (only 6K years), how much damage could we have done?

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old comment by David D.G.

1. We don't have to "destroy" the entire globe, Krypton-style, to make it uninhabitable, or even just terribly unhealthy for us. And we are more than capable of doing that; heck, we ARE doing it, in multiple ways.
2. Actually, it isn't even 6,000 years of damage that's dangerous -- just the last few hundred, but it's accelerating much faster than the planet's ability to absorb it and re-equalize. 3. Also, I have to wonder, on the basis of the second comment, whether the poster is simply a troll. If not, he's delusional about far broader aspects of reality than just global warming. (I once knew an elderly woman who chided her granddaughter for recycling on the grounds that the so-called need for recycling was a communist plot -- in the 1990s -- and she was completely serious. For some people, caring about nature seems to be quite unnatural.) ~David D.G.

old comment by Julian

*And curse your leader for having the same opinion*
- How much damage can we do? Let's see the Middle East used to be called the fertile crescent and it used to be fertile. Religion and animal sacrifices to let the crops grow instead of crop rotation (which religion banned) turned it into a desert. As for the rest of it. Was it Beziers that had over a hundred thousand people in it, some had converted to Christianity and some hadn't. When the crusades retook it, they wanted to kill the heathens as God instructed, but they didn't know how to tell the Christians and heathens apart. Their solution "Kill them all and let God sort them out." When people with access to nuclear weapons have this attitude we're are in deep shit!

old comment by Crosis

<<< *Weather* is a chaotic system. Climate isn't. >>>
To some extent, at least, it is. We don't know how to predict even major trends with all that much accuracy. There are so many factors involved that it's damn near impossible - remember, it was only a few decades ago that most thought we were headed for a new Ice Age. Ocean currents, the extent of plant life, atmospheric content, surface properties, and a whole host of other things that we simply can't reliably predict would have significant impact. This isn't to say it's nothing we need to concern ourselves with; to the extent that we can guess what sort of impact we're likely to see, we should try not to mess things up too much. But it's far from an exact science.

old comment by Crosis

<<< global warming as a major event for a long period in the future may be up in the air, but I think we can all take a glance at New Orleans and see the effects of the warmer oceans. >>>
The effect that is likely (at least in part) responsible for the insane hurricane season - a change in the flow of one of the major ocean currents around the Gulf - is cyclical. It happens every few decades, resulting in much warmer water in the Gulf. Not coincidentally, hurricane season itself seems to follow a similar cycle - a decade or two of below-average activity, followed by a decade or two of above-average activity. There are so many factors involved that it's damn near impossible to separate human impact from the natural cycles. This doesn't mean we should ignore our effect, but it does mean it's almost impossible to tell what our effect really is.

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