nuninhuh -
Here is the argument from the anti-man made-GW crowd standpoint.
- Are Co2 levels increasing due to humans? Yes
- Does Co2 have an effect on global temperatures? Yes
- Is the correlation between both causing the rise in global temperatures? Unknown.
That's the problem we have. We have seen a rise in global temperatures. That is fact. However, to pin the tail on the donkey as being man-made Co2 is to ignore data and evidences to the contrary. Furthermore, the sweeping changes made to business and industry to solve the Co2 problem is very expensive. We feel that if such changes are made, and are not indeed the cause of global warming, we've killed jobs, spent money on something that won't work, and may have inadvertently hurt ourselves from solving the true culprit of global warming in favor of the 'easy' or 'popular' way out.
Co2 changes temperatures. But is the man-made portion, the 3% of all Co2 output, enough to destroy the environment as some governments and scientists are spouting? That's what gives me hesitancy. As I've said, I believe it's a correlation between far more, and I think that good scientists should note that, but some aren't because they are getting funded by governments and agencies that want them to report in a certain way - in favor of the earth getting destroyed unless we reduce the human carbon output.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
