Originally Posted by thevagabond

The fact that right wing religous simpletons who deny science keep bringing the whole issue back to a debate over whether or not it's really hapoening isn't the left's doing. The left and the othe reasonable people have moved on and are trying to mitigate the harmful effects of modern society on our home. We all know the Earth has been warmer. Well, at least those of us who aren't too far out on the right claiming it was all created six thousand years ago. Were there internal combustion engines and coal powered energy plants during the last age of warming? NASA knows that wasn't it and in fact it was because the Earth was closer to the sun. It does that. It's not a fixed distance in its orbit. But that spatial change closer to the sun doesn't explain our current rise in surface temperatures. Neither does water vapor in the atmosphere or any other natural cause Fox News spouts forth. But the centuries long lingering effects of CO2 surely does account for it. CO2 levels which have risen by over 25% since the '70s and which keep accumulating at exponentially greater rates in the atmosphere every year absolutely explains why everything is warming. And justified concern over the unknown long term impact of all that CO2 isn't a political issue at all. Although it is humorous and not surprising that most of the deniers are to the right of the political spectrum. It's all just part of the Great Pumpkin's plan. We'll be fine. All ahead full.