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On 16 Mar, 18:49, (Nick Leverton) wrote:

Though I'm not a scientist I feel there is now very little doubt.

...Treat the media and Al "politician" Gore with the scepticism they deserve if you wish, but don't
assume there
is no evidence behind them.

This is the point though - science, real science, is about disproving
things. So to say "Hey, we've found a correlation" is pretty
meaningless, even if it appears to be really quite strong. Science
will then go through and rip things apart to see how robust these
ideas are.

It's been done, see the IPCC report. If you want to read science rather
than politics then dump the final report and read the original draft.
And remember that the research there is 5 years old - we know even
more now.

Yeah, OK, you may feel that the levels of CO2 are
responsible for something, but how robust is the idea that humans (the
all-powerful humans that is) are solely responsible for climate change
when it's known that the climate changes continually, and has done
forever?

Read the IPCC report, it summarises the evidence. If you want to read
science rather than politics then dump the final report and read the
original draft. And remember that the research there is 5 years old -
we know even more now.

We may be contributing in a small way, but as mammals, we
necessarily consume resources, cause pollution, etc, the point is how
much actual, real damage is being done by this? And are the
consequences of global warming actually damage to the earth? Or is it
just damage to humans?

That is a good point. The earth will survive, of course. Our species
probably will survive too. But as we enter the sixth great mass
extinction of life on Earth, our plant- and animal-based lifestyle won't,
since we've used up all the easily available fossil fuels and Governments
have wasted decades in failing to research anything better.

If you don't mind that then it's quite true, the earth will survive.
Read the IPCC report, nothing in there about "destruction of the earth".
The draft originally leaked out, but is in several places on the web now.

Nick
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