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Supposed Global Warming
February 13, 2006 by Anonymous, 3 years 38 weeks ago
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I wanted to see what you thought of constant change that takes place currently but also in the past, and how we can't predict a single thing.
When calamatous changes caused world wide extinctions in earth's history, humans were not around. The earth has had times where it was not healthy, and many species died and it is only through blind luck that we even exist to talk about it. The current ecosystem of the world is completely different than it was even 50,000 years ago. Deserts, forests, grasslands, rivers and vast lakes have either dissapeared or been replaced by something completely different. The next ice age is forecasted to begin sometime in the next few thousand years.
My question is this. As complex as the earth is, and given its past history of major fluctuations, how can any human have any conceivable idea of how the earth really works when we can't even forecast the weather and natural disasters. When we can forecast the weather on a daily basis accurately, predict earthquakes and volcanoes, sun spots and tsunamis, then maybe we'll have a clue as to who is really right and who is really wrong, but our technology is far to primitive to know what is really the driving force. My guess is that the earth will still be here millions of years from now, we may not, but species as a whole will continue to thrive.