SweetHavok wrote:Victor
A while back Al Gore presented a "solution" that in his opinion would help stop global warming. The ideas and proposals brought forth in his solution, would barely make any impact at all. And mind you what he was proposing was very drastic. Now with that being said the sun and the earth have been around for billions of years, naturally going through stages of heat and ice ages. The last mini ice age happened less than 10,000 years ago. And many things not just man made affect the weather. There have been instances in which the planet cooled down for a years after a major volcanic eruption, recorded history in Europe tells of great famines and unnatural cold years that scientist determined an eruption half way around the world was most likely the culprit.
Solution for the Sun: none its been there for billions of years before we were here and it will be here billions of years after we leave.
Solution for volcanoes: unless you can plug them up permanently there isn't one either.
Nature is nature, we simply contribute to it.
Pfft.... that's quitter talk.
Planet cooling and heating has occurred throughout the earth's life. But not all of it was generally friendly to the inhabitants.
If you don't particularly care (a valid answer, as I've said before) then you can say "Meh... planet may become uninabitable and kill everyone, but I don't care enough"... But that is a MUCH different answer than saying "climate change is caused by natural cycles" (the difference is that the second is implying that you actually care about the future generations, but your hands are just tied... aka politician speak).
As for your famines due to the last ice age and/or volcanic eruptions... well? what are you going to do about it? (again, "nothing, don't care" is a valid answer)...
My point, again, is that even if some climate change is natural, that doesn't mean we couldn't try to do something about it. (no, I don't mean cork up a volcano)... "natural" isn't automatically synonymous with 'not going to do anything". Whether a cause is natural or man-made, you do a cost benefit analysis to determine whether it's worth fixing it. Too many idiots assume "natural" means they can just wash their hands of the whole thing.