Sure, skepticism is the way to go, but if you watch these things like I do, then the skepticism starts to give way under the overwhelming influence of the data.
It's like the business process problems my team solves. They start looking into the data and then the snowball starts to build. It takes us one way then another, then the data points start coming in fast and furious until the conclusions are inescapable.
These data points on CO2 increases are coming from so many different tests, from ocean PH, to ice cores, to mean temperature increases globally, to increases in the ozone hole, etc etc.
Anyway, one thing we do know is that in geological time, this is a CO2 impoverished era. The conclusion laymen will come to is that if this is the case, then we have nothing to worry about. The problem with that thinking is that there is a narrow band of gaseous mix within which we can live. If we upset that mix too far in any direction, then we will push it beyond which we can survive as a species.
The earth has not always been hospitable to human life. In fact, in the long span of the earth's existence, the habitable era is like one grain of sand in a large jar full of sand. We should remember that. We certainly have the power to make this earth uninhabitable. |
