Originally Posted by Warborn
97 - 98% of published climate researchers agree that global warming is due to human activities.
People who believe there is significant disagreement about global warming are mistaken. There is overwhelming consensus on the issue. If you believe that the researchers who support the idea of anthropogenic global warming are "experts", rather than experts, you would need to throw out the entire field of climate research and start anew.
There is not disagreement over it amongst researchers. This is exactly like evolution, or the 9/11 collapses, or any number of other things. The actual experts whose job it is to know the answer agree to an overwhelming extent. The only ambiguity that exists does so in the minds of lay people who aren't able to discern a credible source from a non-credible one.
Rush Limbaugh is not a credible source. Glenn Beck is not a credible source. [A Politician's Name Here] is not a credible source. Uncle Joe who seems to have a knack for anticipating the weather is not a credible source. There are people who have advanced degrees in related fields who get paid to study the climate and understand it. These are the people who you should be paying attention to. And around 98% of them who publish material for their colleagues to review agree that the cause of global warming is humans.
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And that's that folks. Thanks for playing.
Originally Posted by elfailo
Nobody ever wants to acknowledge this, and I will get mocked and ridiculed for bringing it up, but the biggest problem we currently have is that there are simply too many people on this planet.
Something's gotta give, and a third world war isn't going to be enough.
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Ah, carrying capacity. Hello old friend.
This is actually terrifyingly true. the earth cannot support the number of humans we have now at our current level of technological advancement. And we're only growing more and more. I am
so happy I won't be around for when it all reaches critical mass.
2012-07-11, 07:08 AM
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