Global Warming is a Scam

In all seriousness, I'd like a little bit of a scientific discussion as to why the winter has been so warm and mild.I mean, this is typical fall weather up here in Minnesota. I just cracked my windows and turned my heat off... got too hot out.Is this an expected result of global warming? Or, is this a naturally-occurring weather fluke?JonEdited by Jon, : No reason given.

It's been damnnear 40 all week here.You folks in the mountains sure got it rough.

But if human activity isn't the major cause of the warming, it just means that we have to do even more to fix the problem.If there is a natural increase in carbon gasses that is primarily responsible for the warming, then we have to cut human emissions to zero and figure out a way to get rid of the gasses that are being produced naturally.Whereas if the cause is mostly anthropogenic, then we only have to worry about cutting emissions, as that should let the problem clear up.So as jar said, the best case scenario is a case where global warming is entirely caused by humans, because it requires less sacrifice and less effort on our part to fix than the alternative.Jon

I suppose there are just too many varieties of deniers to keep track of them all.In the end, though, something must still be donemorally and ethically speakingfor the folks affected, whether you attribute what is happening to global climate change or not.Dry fields are starving people. Rising oceans are flooding homes.It is still all about what we can do and not at all about what Mother Nature is doing.

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