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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Global climate CHANGE is not just global "warming". Until people realize that, it's pointless to even talk to them about it.
The overal trend is that of a warming planet, but that is not to say that there won't be ups and downs, and periods of extemes (cold and warm).
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Yes.
I also don't qualify as knowledgable enough to offer a super-educated opinion, but I've heard from some more knowledgable people that the "
long"-term trend projects to warmer, warmer, and then sustained COLD for a long period of time. IE. an ice age.
One must consider that there are varying degrees of trends. In the broadest scope of things, a single, isolated year of increased or decreased temperatures is not problematic. Unfortunately, whether indirectly or directly, and whether due to tides rising or an eventual ice age (or both!), increasing greenhouse gases emitted into our atmosphere certainly have the potential to be a cause of dramatic, irreversible damage to the biospehere.