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akuma587 said:

insomniac17 said:

 

This is pretty much what I think. The earth does go through periods of heat, and periods of cold. Why, not too long ago (by earth's standards), we had an Ice Age. We sure aren't now, so doesn't it make sense that the globe is heating up? The whole thing is really blown out of proportion.

 

This argument is thrown around way too liberally.  Just look at the chart I posted earlier that shows how dramatic the shift has been in just 150 years.  That kind of change is very abnormal and most likely due to something else besides the amount of heat the earth receives from the sun on average.

 

 

I'm not saying we have nothing to do with it, I'm saying its being blown out of proporsion. Also, we can't compare that to any other point in the earth's history, so we don't know how the earth reacted after every ice age. For all we know, it could have hit a point like this, and humans could have nothing to do with it. Conversly, it could have just held a steady increase, and we could have everything to do with it. I, however, think it is far more likely that it is more natural, with only some being contributed by things that we (humans) control.

EDIT: Also, do you have a graph that covers more time? That graph is but a scratch in the history of the earth, and is not very accurate of overall trends.