Ron Paul - Wait, what?

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HappySqurriel said:

scottie said:

Rpruett said:

scottie said:

That he doesn't believe climate change is a big issue

In an October 2007 interview, Paul held that climate change is not a "major problem threatening civilization,"
http://www.grist.org/article/paul1

What does this even matter?  Scientists can't even agree whether it's happening because of factors on this planet, whether it's the Earth coming out of an Ice Age,  or a slew of other factors?  Beyond that point, what is Ron Paul or any singular person supposed to do about this?   You have developing nations across the globe feeling success of industry and having more and more gas powered vehicles and power plants being built.   This is completely irrelevant.  

 

You have got to be kidding me.

Recently CERN was (finally) able to run their CLOUD experiment which, while the results are early, could explain how sunspot activity impacts global temperature patterns through influencing cloud formation. Based on previous estimates, this could explain the majority of the warming that occurred over the past half century.

As any person who understands science, science is not a popularity contest and consensus (even fake consensus spread by groups of activists) is meaningless.

 

There's also evidence to support that the earth goes through regular waves of high and low temperature trends, as evidenced by geological records (higher temperatures and lower rainfall = less flowing water = less sedimentary deposits) and tree rings (wider rings = more rainfall, narrower rings = less. Trees that are hundreds of years old can tell quite a tale well beyond modern records).

It's very tough to tell at the current moment in time if the recent "global warming" trend is ANYTHING we have any influence on, let alone control over, or just a natural occurance that coincided with our significant increase in carbon emissions.

Even if it's purely a coincidence, yes, we SHOULD still be careful, but honestly, there's no way to tell yet.