Reply #15: Your argument lacks common sense and logic.

[Uncle Joe]

Science is just the latest and highest endeavor of human understanding regarding the workings of our natural world.

Science is not and never was perfect, errors, mistakes and false assumptions will happen; simply put because to err is human and scientists are human, the learning process is a continuum and ever correcting. Having said that, logic and common sense suggest to accept the trend of accumulated learning, and the latest trends toward the belief that humanity is heating up the planet to unsustainable levels is overwhelming.

You cite a few false assumptions and totally disregard the world you live in which has been totally transformed all because of science's successes. Automobiles, airplanes, trains, television, the Internet, space travel, reconnaissance satellites, weather satellites, photography, polio vaccine, small pox vaccine, heart, brain and any other kind of surgery, heating and air conditioning, microscopes, telescopes, telephones, micro surgery, micro wave ovens, computers, the electric light bulb, the steam engine, the battle against malaria and typhoid, coal mining, oil extraction, motorcycles, jet skis, ranges, dishwashers and refrigerators, prosthetic limbs for amputees, solar panels, wind farms, tractors, harvesters, motorized boats, deep sea diving, and with those examples, I'm not even scratching a snowflake on an iceberg's ass. All of that rests either directly or indirectly on the shoulders of science, what would be your alternative, read chicken guts for the future?

Scientists can determine the general climate going back further than 10,000 years, by studying the makeup of ice cores, fossilized tree rings, they can tell by mineral deposits as to when the Earth had major meteor strikes going back millions of years.

Yes the Earth's climate has gone through cycles for millions of years, but tell me this has the Earth sustained billions of man made automobiles relentlessly spewing carbon dioxide in to the atmosphere on top of it's natural cycles? How about hundreds of thousands if not millions of industrial plants doing the same, we've industrialized farming those cow farts number in the hundreds of millions if not billions to support 6+ billion people on the planet. There are dead zones stretching for tens if not hundreds of miles from the coast in places like New Orleans where no sea life can live because of runoff from fertilizer and pesticides coming down the Mississippi, don't bullshit me with humanity can't adversely effect the planet!

Worst case scenarios, if your right and thousands of scientists are wrong which is highly doubtful, we will still become more energy efficient, less dependent on communist and terrorist supporting nations for outmoded and destructive sources of energy and suffer some economic upheaval in the process, needless to say, if you're wrong, humanity's very existence is at stake and the economy will suck like it's never sucked before; should we not correct our course.