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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
I'm sure more will pile on here, but I hear this from Albertans all the time (even though I'm in BC note I grew up in Alberta and wondered the same thing). There's no debate what the cause is unless you ignore all the proof and science. While there's been constant climate change forever, never anything even close to this rapid
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Folks can pile on, it doesn't bother me. Well maybe a little. I don't like when people assume #### right away if you don't tow the party line 100%. I grew up in Alberta as well, but I live in CA. I'm a great believer in taking care of the earth and doing your own individual part. I do think emissions need to come down on a global scale, no question. I love that CA takes this seriously (although obviously there is much to do still).
I don't pretend to know all the facts, but again, looking back on the geologic time scale, ice-ages have come and gone and humans have had zero to do with it. I question whether or not the earth is changing whether we like it or not. If someone turned off the CO2 switch tomorrow, would that change anything at all? I think the earth is going to warm, the sea will rise, and we will be helpless.
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Originally Posted by photon
You have it backwards, we're currently in an interglacial period called the Holocene, so temperature should be going down if we're at the end of our interglacial and heading into an ice age.
The influence human produced CO2 is much larger than the influence of the things that lead to ice-ages.
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Well more broadly speaking, we are still in an ice-age, but in a interglacial period.