re: are there still people who still believe the earth is warming and man caused it?

I'm not arguing that people's activity has no impact or that change is not occurring or that it should not be explored.

I just don't see an immediate impending disaster that justifies taking more of my money
and I don't see how you will get people around the globe to act in concert without employing some very expensive violence and brutality.

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Because, believe it or not, the US is not the entire world. Also, believe it or not, weather is not the same as climate.

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I know and I didn't try and use this to try and disprove global warming, just try and spark discussion I think recent trends have shown that even if the earth is warming its not as bad as once thought. Also if you look at the entire history (instead of looking at only recent history) we are not in the warmest period of Earth's history, you could actually argue that we are coming out of an ice age or at-least a bellow average cold earth. The earth has survived through warmer and colder times I think we have nothing to worry about. Also it makes no sense that man would cause all of this warming because how could you explain the warming thousands of years ago.

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and I don't see how you will get people around the globe to act in concert without employing some very expensive violence and brutality.

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this is the best argument to do nothing IMHO. No way china does anything to curb their CO2 emissions.

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Personally, I don't consider myself an "alarmist"

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Fair statement IMO. My vision of an alarmist is Al Gore talking about growing banana orchards on the Arctic.

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I think any effective method of drawing CO2 from the atmosphere would probably be somewhat energy- and resource-intensive.

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Something as simple as transiently enhancing phytoplancton growth could be a solution. i.e., iron seeding might do the trick.
Point being, most folks (even those who are reasonable, and very well informed on the subject, as are you) won't hear much about that, because it's counterproductive to the agenda.

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And you are a red giraffe because of global warming. I will send some money to Al Gore to help you become cooler.

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Well have fun wasting your money then. Not really sure what he's gonna do with it that would be useful.

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Although I happen to think the earth is a type of living thing that constantly adapts and changes to conditions, maybe not always for the better of mankind.

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I agree with this. The earth isn't going anywhere because of what we do. It's the human race's future that is at stake.

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Water vapor is short-lived and does not accumulate.

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Hmmm. You might want to revisit that. Without a significant change in water vapor content, GW can't happen. CO2 retains very little heat at atmospheric T-Ps

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the earth with this natural cycle has survived now humans seem to have no effect on the cycle and you guys want to try and stop something that doesn't seem to be causing anything bad.

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Humans do have an effect on the climate. Fricken PLANTS have an effect on climate and they don't even have brains.

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it's like saying in the really really distant future this one thing could come out really bad or could come out not bad at all. Let's assume the worst and try and stop it.

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its not like saying that, because its going to come out bad.

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Such as?

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my lack of access to resources due to fedgov regulations.