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Originally Posted by reefermadness

Yes and many of the scientist and think-tanks trying to disprove climate change are funded indirectly by oil companies. And although I dont like to say it, when it comes to issues of societal safety I would trust the government over a corporation.

Climate change is still a hypothesis. You will find people to argue both sides.

Personally I feel the argument that man is causing or contributing to global warming is too big to ignore. Even if they are wrong.....it's called risk management.

actualy this guy is funded by a university in ontario, and his comitment is to stay impartial and he won't take any extra funding from either side, he was quite adament on that. I simpily cannot believe that when we have some of the formost climate research being done by a canadian which is changing the way we think on some things that people cannot accept it. or for that matter even concider it.

here are a few things to thing about.. I was watching the tv, a show on huge vocano eruptions and there effect through out history. (yes I watch a lot of nature/history/ect programming.)

anyways Anak Krakatau erupted in 1883, it erupted more than 18 cubic km of ash to a height of 80 km, and produced a tsunami as high as 30 m. the side effect of this was to raise CO2 in the atmosphere to about 5X the present levels which they found through sampling ice in the artic from that time period. so the question remains if we are producing CO2 and it is destroying out climat, where did all that CO2 go from the eruption?

Now befor people get up in arms, yes I believe in climat change, after all 0.7 degrees celcius rize over the last 20 years is something. but I also believe that it is part of a natural cycle. are we helping.. not nessaraly, I don't believe we are causing it but we may be helping it if you know what I mean. I am for reduction and such as long as it doesnt finatualy hurt me.

now another thing to concider.. remember the big hole in the ozone. a lot of good things came out of that scare. different trypes of refrigeration, acelerated technology to make and be able to use thoes new products. but when all was said and done it was a natural cycle and when it should have been increasing at its highest rate it was closing.

there is to much people don't know about how the world works, with thousand of volcanoes that make Krakatau look like a party favor in terms of effect on our planet and the subsequent fact that we are still here must hold some weight.

Steve