“Global warming; man made, natural or a bit of both?” Interesting one, I

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“Global warming; man made, natural or a bit of both?”

Interesting one, I think I have said before on this site that I haven’t actually looked at enough of the evidence from either side of the debate to make a definate choice.

But history does show that the climate does have it’s own paterns of shift so partly natural, however from some of the stuff I have read it would seem that we since the industrial revolution have contributed to speeding up that natural cycle, although no one (that I have read) seems to be able to agree on exactly how much we have contributed and how far we have pushed to normal cycle in terms of years.

But personally I do believe that which ever way the actual facts turn out (we know science does tend to change it’s opinions as technology and knowledge improves etc), if there is any chance that we have contributed to speeding up the cycle and by making changes now we could slow down those effects then we should do that.

I think it would be a bit ridiculous to assume that as the world population has grown and the speed in which we burn away the planets natural resources that we haven’t contributed in some way.

But from another perspective we could look at it by taking climate change out of the equation and saying that we know that the world natural resources are actually finite and we are using them up at the highest rate ever so we therefore should be investing in new technologies now and planning for the future otherwise at some point down the line if we do keep sticking our head in the sand and saying we don’t need to worry about it or just blame some New World Order type conspiracy for making it all up etc etc then at some point the lights will go out.

So whether or not we are causing the natural cycle of the planet to speed up is in my opinion neither here nor there as we will actually need these new technologies in the very near future to replace the natural resources we have almost used up.

So effectively I guess I am saying that the Climate Change debate (to me) is irrelevant really if we think from a long term perspective of what we will need in order to keep the world alive in the future.