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You also have to understand, with everything there is a spectrum. There are people no matter what you tell them, won't believe climate change exists, other simp

You also have to understand, with everything there is a spectrum. There are people no matter what you tell them, won't believe climate change exists, other simply say it's a cycle, just like we've had cooling and heating cycles since the dawn of time. Also, it's hard for a lot of people to take climate change arguments seriously when you basically tell them, "Well, based on this model. . " So how do you take into effect climate cycles that go beyond recorded weather which started sometime in the 1700's? Real statistical data about the Earth just isn't available to make models very compelling. it doesn't help either when you have conflicting models. Some say we're actually in a cooling cycle, not a warming cycle: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GISSTemperature/giss_temperature2.php http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GISSTemperature/gi... http://www.globalresearch.ca/global-cooling-is-here/10783 http://www.globalresearch.ca/global-cooling-is-here/10783 http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2013/05/26/to-the-horror-of-global-warming-alarmists-global-cooling-is-here/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2013/05/26/to-the-h... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/climatechange/10294082/Global-warming-No-actually-were-cooling-claim-scientists.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/climatecha... http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/climate-scientist-who-got-it-right-predicts-20-more-years-global http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/cl... Lastly, the thing which frustrates me to no end is most countries have been reducing their C02 emissions for years now. The real danger is not countries like the US who continue to try and reduce emissions and enforce strict EPA standards, it's countries like China and India who are doing little if anything to curb their emissions. What can we do? Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

hackuser 11y ago
If you are seriously interested in learning the answers to your questions, I strongly recommend spending an hour reading the IPCC's 'Summaries for Policymakers'. Read the Synthesis Report, which covers everything, or one of the three working group reports for more detail ("Physical Science Basis", "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability", and "Mitigation of Climate Change"). http://www.ipcc.ch/ http://www.ipcc.ch/ The IPCC meticulously prepares these reports -- and I mean hundreds of scientists preparing reports reviewed by thousands worldwide, with extreme attention paid to wording about probabilities -- and then writes summary reports for non-scientific policymakers. If politicians have the ability and attention span to understand them, you can too. :) The hour spent reading will save you a hundred hours reading the nonsense that is 99% of what is written elsewhere. Also much of what you say is addressed.

hackuser 11y ago

If you are seriously interested in learning the answers to your questions, I strongly recommend spending an hour reading the IPCC's 'Summaries for Policymakers'. Read the Synthesis Report, which covers everything, or one of the three working group reports for more detail ("Physical Science Basis", "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability", and "Mitigation of Climate Change"). http://www.ipcc.ch/ http://www.ipcc.ch/ The IPCC meticulously prepares these reports -- and I mean hundreds of scientists preparing reports reviewed by thousands worldwide, with extreme attention paid to wording about probabilities -- and then writes summary reports for non-scientific policymakers. If politicians have the ability and attention span to understand them, you can too. :) The hour spent reading will save you a hundred hours reading the nonsense that is 99% of what is written elsewhere. Also much of what you say is addressed.