Re: Anthropogenic Global Warming
Reply #44 –
For the record, I don't doubt for one minute that the climate is changing. It's been doing that for a long time-- like, before Man ever set foot on the planet.........

.....It will continue to do that long after we're a historic footnote-- provided there's anybody to note the history then.......

The last Ice Age (see below) lasted 80+ Thousand Years or so in our method of time keeping.
Hell, we don't have any
bona fide documentation on where the Egyptians found the architectural knowledge used to devise the Pyramids, & that's only a few thousand years back. The only thing we have is a plethora of theories.
I doubt any remains of our existence will last anything near as long as an Ice Age.
Nor will any method devised to recount our blip on the lines of time, by this most recent incarnation of mankind (ours), survive a similar journey thru time.
Those living prior to the last Ice Age event left
nothing enduring for us to know anything about them, so I'd gather the same outcome would most probably repeat.
....The last glacial period, popularly known as the Ice Age, was the most recent glacial period within the current ice age occurring during the last years of the Pleistocene, from approximately 110,000 to 12,000 years ago.....
What I DO doubt is the effect we have on the global climate, or indeed can have on the climate. I really think we give ourselves too much credit for being able to make changes for good or for evil, and further I have an idea that the jury is still out on what, exactly, is driving climate change. We're like an ant on the shore of the Pacific Ocean, trying to say we understand it and that we have power to change it. I think just maybe we're actually a long way from being able to understand it or make meaningful changes.

All through society there are so called leaders afield, that need to devise methods to prolong & legitimatize their own worth, importance, & existence ........ especially politicians, & those that see the opportunity to create wealth from those less educated, & easily convinced that toadstools taste like decadent fudge.
Mankind's naive belief that it can overcome anything in it's habitat (even it's own mortality), though impressively ambitious at times, is in this case simply nothing more than over-ambitious naivety ---- at our
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