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Politics : Manmade Global Warming, A hoax? A Scam? or a Doomsday Cult? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (3382)	11/21/2013 12:26:38 PM
From: bruwin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4326

Well, there could be another way to look at it, especially with regard to the sea temperatures that have been taken and recorded in recent years and which appear to show a gradual increase rather than a constant value ... The fact that the oceans absorb heat doesn't necessarily mean that that heat doesn't get dissipated in the normal course of events. It's not the case, as you allude, that heat gets absorbed and "hides at the bottom" for years on end. Nature has many cycles in various forms, and over the millennia, balances have been created so that "fauna and flora" are generally in harmony. However, when external forces or influences enter the arena then those harmonies and balances can be negatively affected. Of course, where those "external forces or influences" originate can be the subject of much debate and discussion. The fact of the matter is that in the past the average ocean temperature was "x degrees". For want of a better example, about "y" units of heat entered the ocean and about "y" units left (much according to Newton's Conservation of Energy), in one form or another and things appeared to be in harmony and in balance. We now see an average ocean temperature of "x+%x degrees", no doubt caused by "y+%y" units of heat entering the system. So whatever was content and survived well with a temperature of "x degrees" now appears to be adversely affected by that extra "%y" of energy entering the system. Apparently this can be seen by a deterioration in the Great Barrier Reef, the retreat of ice caps, etc... Those are the facts. The question, open to debate, is ... "what has caused that rise in temperature?" Is its source man-made, or is its origin within Nature itself? The fact that it has come about in a relatively short period of time, in terms of the age of the earth itself, may indicate to some that it's more likely man-made .... but that doesn't necessarily make it a given. What I would suggest is that, irrespective of where one stands on the subject, one should not ignore or reject those genuine scientific endeavors which have taken place, if those very scientific endeavors run contrary to what one would prefer to see presented. When interrogating a subject as serious as this one is to all concerned, it surely must be approached with a completely open mind and an earnest desire to arrive at a logical and well informed conclusion, irrespective of where that may lead one.