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Old 07-09-2009, 01:00 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Hi,

The basic principle of greenhouse gasses making our lives possible, by slowing down the heat loss into space -- is a fact. We're here, right? So, if some insulation results in the "right" temperature for life as we know it, then adding a whole bunch more insulation quickly, is resulting in the overall higher temperature that we have already seen.

Greenhouse gases = retained heat = fact.

Scientific process works the same for all fields of science. If you trust any science: medicine, geology, paleontology, biology, chemistry, physics -- all of them use and depend on the same methodology and peer review! So, if you trust any of these, then you have to trust the overwhelming conclusions about global climate change.

Scientists do not make things up.

The economic motivation of the naysayers is obvious to all -- they want to continue unhindered at selling us all the oil and coal they can. I fail to see how anybody could profit from global warming. If the UN is swaying people with their funding -- why are they doing it?

Oil and coal are in specific places and are finite, so the people who control them can profit from them. Renewable energy on the other hand is all over the place, and they cannot be controlled by a few -- so, this is why there is so much resistance to switching over.

We fight wars over oil. Would we fight wars over sunshine, or wind, or tidal, or wave, or geothermal energy?

There is no disputing that all old carbon fuels release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that we all depend on. So, why are we letting a few profit, while we all pay the penalty?
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