Anybody who believed global warming was man made are having questions now?

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Sqrl said:

vlad321 said:

Kasz216 said:

I understand what your saying... but there isn't anything that supports this. As such i'm going to have to go with the "null" until actual research is shown otherwise.

On the other hand we don't really know that it doesn't affect anything in a way that could tip something irreversible. We just don't know enough to say either way. For instance, just because no one knew of calculus and gravity before Newton, doesn't mean those laws didn't exist beforehand. There has always been a cost/risk with many decisions, and I wager that the risk here far outweighs several trillion dollars in potential damages.

Except that people in third world countries are dying because of environmental policies meant to fight global warming.  Without access to their country's coal to raise themselves out of poverty, like the developed world was able to do, they are living a life where survival is constantly in doubt. 

In short, to the extent that there are things we can do that genuinely do not have downsides (such as conservation, advancing research in Fusion power, etc...) we should absolutely do whatever we can because those things have other upsides typically as well.  But that line has to be drawn at policies which do have a cost measured in human lives and yes even monetary costs that threaten economic stability.

Link that for me please.

I know of two major effects on the third world, severe and extended droughts and also food pricing due to biofuel production, but i have never heard that coal is restricted in these countries at all, and further more that is our fault for causing it.