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Originally Posted by OBW
As true as your general statement may be, at the same time, there may actually be something to global warming. But the more important aspect of it may be whether man actually has any material part in the process. It would seem that the earth has warmed and cooled to some degree in the past — both recently and in ancient history.
Funny thing is that it was as recent as the 80s (I believe) that there was a significant concern that the earth was going into a phase of global cooling.
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During my high school and college days, I was constantly shown pictures of frozen wooly mammoths, and warned of the coming ice age. They used the identical reasoning as for today's global warming scares: fossil fuels, green house gases, and gas-guzzling cars. The last ice age was only 10K years hence, and the next one was right around the corner. That all changed with "Ozone AL" Gore, who invented the internet.
After the 90's, global warming was all the rage. Last year's brutal winter with its "polar vortex" kind of shut those folks up, so now we have the more
all-inclusive "climate change." Growing up in Cleveland, Ohio we had climate change a couple times a day. Don't need a scientist to tell me about that. Every day we would say, "
if you don't like the weather, just wait a minute."