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 Originally Posted by poker_pup
The global warming crowd ignores data which doesn't support their beliefs and shouts down anyone who disagrees.
To me it's more than enough information to form an educated opinion to know that based on the available data, over 95% of the scientific community believe the climate is getting warmer, and over 80% think that it's directly our fault. When you take into account that out of the scientists in the study, some were not climatologists but meteorologists, petroleum geologists and astronomers, which while sounding were convincing titles, are not actually experts on climate change. Add to that the people with vested interests, fringe scientists and fruitcakes, and we have pretty damn close to a 100% agreement on the issue by the people who actually know what they're talking about.
Originally Posted by poker_pup
The earth goes through warming and cooling cycles and we as humans are arrogant to believe that we can effect them.
No, we are arrogant to think none of actions have consequences. The planet's ecosystem has changed more rapidly in the last few decades compared to any other period in time, excluding major catastrophes on a global scale. For example, the background extinction rate, that is, the normal rate species' go extinct on our planet, has historically been between 1-10 species per year. The current estimates of the rate now range between 100-10.000 species per year. At current rate 50% of all living species now will be extinct by 2100.
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