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Old 02-21-2012, 10:14 PM   #152 (permalink)
jamesqf
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Originally Posted by TheEnemy View Post
A while back on another form a person and I spent some time calculating how much of the warming since the 1970’s we were responsible for. Mind you our calculations have an absolutely huge amount of uncertainty but we felt that our calculations were more accurate than the ones the IPCC gave us.
So think about that for a minute. You yourself admit that your calculations have a huge amount of uncertainty, yet you're going to completely ignore the part of the range that you don't "feel" is right. Are we perhaps indulging in just a tiny bit of wishful thinking here?

Now this may come as a huge shock to you, but the universe just doesn't give a damn about what you feel. It's gonna do what it's gonna do, according to the laws of physics & chemistry, and the best you can do is a) try to understand those laws and their consequences; b) when you don't completely understand, prepare for the worst. If that's what happens, you'll be ready. If not, you can congratulate yourself on having lucked out - this time.

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