Quote Originally Posted by pntBLNK View Post
For the record, I don't believe that us polluting the environment has caused or will cause global warming... it's pretty natural for the earth to go through climate changes, I don't think we can speed up or slow down that natural process even if we tried.
your obvious fluency in climate science notwithstanding, you are mistaken. there is, for all intents and purposes, consensus within the scientific community that humans are fucking with the environment and global climate in massive, chaotic and unprecedented ways. yes, consensus between everyone who actually studies the stuff. and sure, mother earth has her mood swings, but mother earth's atmosphere has never been pumped with this much CO2.

it's relatively easy to understand, as well. it's not as if it's some dense scientific theorem that's hard to explain -- it's not even an easy-to-explain theorem that's been cynically or ignorantly mis-explained to millions of people (see entry: evolution by natural selection). greenhouse gases trap in heat from the sun that would otherwise naturally dissipate, causing a net shift towards the warmer across the planet. though the climate changes differently in different specific places, the ice at the poles starts to melt and fuck with things like rising sea levels and salination and other things that from this point on that i haven't really read up on. my brother understood this shit when he was in third grade.