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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
No. I'm open to accepting assumptions. But I'm not taking some 16 year graph and extrapolating from there.
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Obviously, a 16 year period doesn't tell us anything about climate change. But, I think that anything generated to show the average temperature (even in 100+ year periods) for the past 100,000 years is going to be conjecture and, ultimately, crap as far as showing trends and that the earth is 2 degrees warmer than long term average. Sure, if all the polar ice melts, science can demonstrate that that hasn't happened since whenever, but trend lines and ranges of normal cliamte fluctuation? I think that's going to take thousands of years to clearly establish.
And I actually think that human activity has had an impact on the environment and that the results are not going to be something that is postive for our way of life.
