Common ground? Either we consider that our actions which are warming the planet are serious or they are not.
You think they are not serious and do not warrant action. You say that uncertainty means that we should do nothing or very little.
I say that climate change has a range of uncertainties with many of them very serious.
So you tell me, where is the common ground. Should I say that okay, you don't think that it's serious so lets meet half-way and do something half-assed (like what we're doing right now) in the spirit of compromise.
This has very little to do with a religious debate. It has some things in common like ignorance but the key difference is that we are debating about things we can measure and predict and touch. Religion we can only pontificate. No, right now we are seeing effects of climate change on our environment. That is not similar to a debate on religion.
So I ask you again, in light of all of the physical evidence: Greenland rising, sea level rising (it is happening we are recording it), Greenland melting, Antartica melting, permafrost melting, coral reefs dying, species migrating closer to the poles, average temperatures increasing, how shoudl we engage in a debate about compromise?
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