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Originally Posted by AJ_77
To be honest, it's a few wasps... that's the trouble with alarmist reporting.
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The problem with the wasps is not the wasps themselves. So what if there are wasps in Baffin Island? The point is that the amount of signs that point to climate change. In of itself, no one sign is really all that alarming in itself. What I find is alarming is the sheer number of them out there. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
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Originally Posted by teevee
I'm waiting until scientists give us some idea of just how much is our fault and how much is part of a normal cycle.
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Well, I think it's naive to believe that climate change isn't happening and it's naive to beleive that human activity does not have an impact. But does it really matter? The point is that it's happening, and that the world for future generations is going to be different than what it is now, and what it has been. I'm sorry, but .. Get used to the idea. It's happening. Some of it probably IS just a natural cyclic phenomenon. But, the rate we pump CO2 into the atmosphere ... I have trouble believing that we probably aren't accelerating things to some degree. And short of the end of civilization as we know it right now, that's not going to stop anytime soon. Realistically, the solution is to try to reduce our footprint as much as possible, but reconcile that 50 years from now, 100 years from now, etc. .. things might not be how they are right now. I'm not trying to be alarmist ... I'm trying to be realistic.
If you want to read some sobering observations, take a read through the latest National Geographic.
PS. Sorry - I'm not trying to be rude or argumentative. I certainly don't have any answers.