Colin McKenzie wrote:

David Chorley wrote:
This, incidentally, is why "global warming through increased levels of
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere" was thought up as it is hogwash as
basic science and undisproveable, as it is unproveable.

If global warming is happening, it's a far more serious problem for
humanity than Islamic terrorism. Yet our politicians seem much more
exercised about the latter.

That would be because the Islamic terrorism (or indeed any terrorism) speaks
clearer to the purpose of the political system: the protection of those
inside from those outside. Global warming is far more opaque a problem: it
simply cannot be solved for those within one jurisdiction, ergo, anyone
purporting to do so will fail and failure begets electoral suicide.

As to the theory, like all theories it cannot be proved 100%. But we
have warming, we have increased CO2, and we have a credible theory to
connect the two. Until a better theory comes along, intelligent people
without vested interests accept the hypothesis.

ISTR that global temperature, while at the upper end of its range over the
last however many millions of years, remains in territory already seen in
nature.
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Al

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