Yawn ... <To most scientists, global warming is a truly successful hypothesis. The evidence overwhelmingly shows, as predicted, that human behavior is altering the climate, with potentially catastrophic results.>
I haven't been overwhelmed.
My understanding is that the last glaciation was running out of steam about 10,000 years ago and since then, ice cover has dwindled rapidly. It is still dwindling, with Greenland still to be rescued from its frozen kilometres deep burden and the north pole is still covered in ice [barely]. Glaciers have retreated and Earth has almost returned to normal. It's still a bit cool, but we are getting there.
Thank goodness that modern people came along and started digging up the fossil carbon to bring it back to life from its eons-long grave.
Without us, we'd be flipping back to an ice-age and that would be very bad news for the reindeer of Sweden, not to mention the Swedes and most other people in Europe, across Russia and northern China, Canada and lots of the USA.
Ice-ages are very bad news. A tide rise over 50 years is nothing to worry about. We are going to get a BIG and SUDDEN tide rise due to an incoming bolide splashing down in the Pacific, so worrying about a gentle sea-level rise which an infant child can outgrow, let alone walk away from, is silly.
I understand the hypothesis of global warming, but can't get worked up about it. It seems a trivial problem to me. I don't believe the runaway-greenhouse branch of the ideology.
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