On Mar 3, 11:18 pm, Cyli wrote:

Oh, I've been willing to believe in it for a few years

I don't recall seeing anything to the contrary. My remarks were
directed to those who flatly denied that global warming is real. All
the more interesting that we have already seen in this thread that
nobody ever said any such thing......and that we will see ever more
such denials in the coming months and years......ainna?

(always keeping
in mind that I believed the previously popular theory that we were
going to enter an new ice age any century soon),

Theories about the consequences of global climate change abound. Ever
more new ones will continue to surface from time to time. For now, it
is much too early to rule out a new ice age as a possible outcome.
One of the least understood aspects of science in general is that
popularity has little bearing on the validity of theories.

but I don't grant
all, or even most, of the cause of it to humans.

Unfortunately, the concessions of even the most reasonable and
thoughtful of human beings has exactly the same effect on theoretical
precision as does balloting.

I'll certainly
admit that we exacerbate it, but am not sure by how much and in
exactly what ways.

Anybody who IS sure has his or her head up somebody's ass......and it
really doesn't matter whose, does it?

I've become too accustomed to the whines and screams of the ego filled
humans who want to blame the rest of us for every harm to the
environment and who claim that humans will eventually (usually in
their life time, if they're young) destroy EVERYTHING, presumably
leaving the earth a barren wasteland of rock in vacuum. To them,
it's all about humans.

And yet, the possibility that concerns about environmental damage and
putative human contributions thereto could be motivated by something
other than self-absorbed youthful ego is worthy of at least a
skeptical nod, wouldn't you say?

The earth has been going through hot flashes and chills for the cycle
of its existence.

An observation with which even the most rabid anti-global warming nut
cases do not disagree. In fact, it is (however pitiful) the most
powerful weapon in their arsenal.

While we are adding to the heat this cycle and
should stop doing that, it's not a brand new thing, entirely due to
human evil.

Once again, an observation with which no one I've encountered (face to
face or in print) has ever disagreed. What's more, from the
standpoint of the implicit geological standpoint, in 40 million years
or so, who's going to care.......right? I certainly won't. ****, I
don't have any offspring.....40 years from now it's somebody else's
problem.....not mine.

Wolfgang
but, those next 40 years........