Originally posted by mrsleeve
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Finally, a politics and religion thread I can post in, simply because this is the exact shit I am studying in college!!
It is true that scientists cannot accurately tell us what the weather will be like tomorrow, but they can accurately depict the climate on a broader scale.
For reference, climate means weather over a long period of time.
And it is also true, that over the part 250 millions years, the earth has gone through around 25 to 30 "ice age" cycles, but few if any have seen CO2 levels as high as this. Scientists have validated this by pulling massive ice cores out of Antartica and the North pole, and studying the bubbles in the ice at varying depths.
You cannot sit there and tell me that you dont think the massive changes we as humans have made to the carbon cycle, by cutting down trees that store carbon, and by pulling carbon stored in oil and coal out of the ground to burn and put into the atmosphere do not have an effect on the earth and our climate. To do so would truly show your ignorance!!
In most of these threads I dont interject because my level of knowledge is slim to none. And now that I am witnessing a thread in which I am well educated, it is easy to spot those that are like me in most other threads, with their lack of knowledge.
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