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February 14, 2006 by Anonymous, 3 years 40 weeks ago
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You point out that climate change has trends, whereas weather change has trends too. Recently on Oprah, DiCaprio said that the current weather is a result of Global Warming, which is an absolute false. I am sure that you would not agree with someone just because they are a celebrity, you seem to read a lot and can at least make some pretty good valid points as opposed to these people who just say what their told to.
Scientists can go back hundreds of thousands if not millions of years and look at cyclical weather patterns. They can never tell how long they will last or when exactly they begin, but they do know at the least that we are currently in one. It has happened before and just because it is happening again now does not mean humans are the cause of it.
You also pointed out that 2005 was the hottest year on record. How long have we been taking accurate temperature readings? Not very long, and they are not all that accurate, especially as you continue to go back into the records. I am sure that there are times before the little ice age when it was just as hot as it is now. Also, other interglacial periods have been hotter than even now, and the world is still fine. Look at this website for more info and temperature cilmate in the last interglacial period.
http://climchange.cr.usgs.gov/info/lite/alaska/alaska.html
You can do more research on this topic too.
People predicting gloom and doom are just trying to strike fear into people, and its really quite humurous. I bet after the last Ice Age huge chuncks of ice broke apart, and the sea rose dramatically, so what, its a cycle. Weather, climate, solar, geological, even evolution etc., they all have cycles, and just because were in one right now that tends towards the harder side does not mean it is caused by us.
There are records in Mesopotamia pertaining to huge floods that took place, about the same time as Noah's Ark in the bible. Even though the whole world did not flood of course, it was a horrific flood in that part of the world, and it was not caused by humans but by nature.
People like to blame calamities and disasters on something, and I guess its just easier to say its global warming or God. The fact of the matter is that we live in an abrupt and very dangerous world where any number of catastrophies can happen at any moment. A meteor or super volcano being one of the most dangerous, along with earth losing its magnetic field. I would be more worried about those issues than global warming or God causing the end of the world. When I pertain to God I just refer to people believing its the end times.