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Originally Posted by Burninator
Not to be an a-hole. But who is saying this? I have heard lots of scientists say that we are causing global warming and lots of media saying the opposite. There is one I trust more than the other. But if you or anyone could point me in this direction because I would like to read something that takes a logical standpoint on the opposite side.
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There are scientists on both sides of the equation. I would venture a guess that most scientists have not taken a firm side and, instead, talk about evidence for one side or the other, none of which is conclusive.
The media isn't making everything about the longterm trends and CO2 measurements, etc. up.
It is foolish to believe that we have absolutely no effect on the environment, and definitely have nothing to do with global warming.
It is also foolish, however, to be absolutely certain that the fact that temperatures are rising is due solely to human influence.
I've seen studies (from a biology lecture, not tv) which show projected temperatures over the last hundreds of thousands of years (using CO2 levels and something else I don't remember) which show a clearly defined pattern of temperature change on Earth, as it goes up and down, repeating itself every...400,000? (something like that) years. We are currently on the upward swing of the cycle, hence the rising temperatures.
That is not to say that we aren't making it worse - we might be. But it's naive to think that all the scientists are on the same side, and it is only the media pretending they're wrong.
edit: here's one article speaking against blaming CO2 for temperature change:
http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO...balwarming.jsp