Quote:Interesting. Very interesting.
Forinstance, recycling paper has hurt the enviorment more than it helped, by removing the financial incentive to maintain forests for paper companies, and the chemical used in recycling paper are quite harmfull to the enviorment... The net effect has been bad, but it's different with plastic, metals and other stuff which does not come from a renewable source and which does not decompose. Still when speaking out against paper recycling you'll probably be labeled as an anti enviormentalist.
Quote:Mmm. I don't disagree that there are changes going on in the climate, it's a system that's been going on for millions of years. We know that there have been cyclic rises and falls in temperature of a degree or two every half-millennium or so. We're at about the right time in that cycle for a slight rise to be going on right now.
As for global warming I believe it exists because that is the consensus among researchers, I also believe it is affected by humans, and that at this point there is very little we can do about it, since there is also a good indication that any changes in behavior now will take about a century to take effect.
And there is solid evidence that the "hockey stick" graph, which shows a relatively stable temperature for centuries followed by a sudden rise in the 20th century, is of highly questionable validity - the model 'smooths out' a lot of fluctuations, and even when fed totally random data produces practically the same graph!
Finally, I see the evidence of volcanic contributions, which seem to far outweigh human influence on the atmosphere. And with all of that weighing against it, I have trouble believing that human influence will be enough to tip the balance into catastrophe.--
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