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Old 12/14/2007, 10:21 PM
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Exactly. Anyone who argues that the greenhouse effect or warming trends aren't natural is either being dishonest or doesn't have a clue what they're talking about to put it bluntly. That's not the question though. The question is how much (not if) anthropogenic forcings change the natural trend and how is it going to affect us.

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there is more and more evidence showing that our current rising temperatures are no where near being outside earths average ranges since the beginning of life...
There's really no question that the recent climate has been unusually stable and that it has been much warmer and much colder in the past. That doesn't mean anything about our current impact on the trend though. It also doesn't tell us much about how the climate will impact us since in the history of human civilization there haven't been any changes the magnitude of those predicted.
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