It is absolutely shocking to see how many regular members here oppose climate change!
A simple thought experiment can put your world into perspective within minutes, enough to warrant the potential danger that climate change does present.
We often consider, what are the odds that climate change is anthropogenic. Perhaps a more suitable question would be, what are the chances that climate change is non anthropogenic, IE non man-made.
Expand that question to, What is the probability that a slow and repeating natural climate change could occur severely amplified within a 200 year timeframe at the exact moment of Industrialization.
Now let's link up a few figures. The Milankovitch cycles are approximately 26000 years in length. It takes this whole time to complete a single precession of earths axis. In this period of time, the PPM of c02 in the atmosphere only fluctuates by 100 ppm at highest. This is a time in which ice ages occur, oceans deposit and attract huge volumes of CO2, plant life and volcanic activity fluctuates wilding and react diversely to the climate change. Yet, the atmospheric co2 content only fluctuates by 100 PPM!
All of a sudden an era of industrialization happens, and Co2 concentrations spike to 650 PPM. For 400000 years the earth has progressed through various natural cycles, not once has co2 concentration exceeded 300 PPM. 30 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide is added to the 780 gigatonnes already present within 200 years.
It seems to me some people would choose to be skeptical of climate change to justify their own actions.
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