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Does that matter? People live there, the fact that it is disappearing is relevant. "Well, those islands used to be totally submerged 115,000 years ago!" isn't r

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• phkahler 11y ago
  >> Does that matter? People live there, the fact that it is disappearing is relevant. "Well, those islands used to be totally submerged 115,000 years ago!" isn't really of use to the islands' inhabitants. To the people who live there, it doesn't matter. To the people trying to blame it on human activity it should.
  • Brakenshire 11y ago
    I don't see that. Things can happen for multiple reasons, the climate is complicated. It's an exceptionally weak argument to say "sea level or temperature change has happened naturally in the past, so that means it can't be caused by human industry now". Especially when the mechanism for natural change usually involved CO2.
  • avar 11y ago
    No it shouldn't. The Earth's climate has been at various extreme points in the past, from ice ball to covered in tropical rain-forest. That has nothing to do with the evidence for whether we're through human activity pushing it towards one of those past extreme states at an accelerated or unnatural pace.
  • bjz_ 11y ago
    > To the people trying to blame it on human activity it should. It just shows that the climate can change due to natural processes, and that it can change by a great deal if conditions are right. This could happen for a number of reasons, but the rapid, large-scale warming we've seen over the last century can only be accounted for by human activity. All other natural processes have been falsified by scientists.
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