Global warming - let's settle this once and for all!

[Gawain of Orkeny]

For the enlightened, which seems to be pretty universal outside the USA

You guys keep claiming this yet you have nothing to back it up. I can provide as many scientists who say its all BS as agree with you. The facts are we cant even predicted or control the weather for tommorow nevermind such a complicated system as our atmosphere. Imagine the polution if we still all used horses.

[Rodion Romanovich]

You guys keep claiming this yet you have nothing to back it up. I can provide as many scientists who say its all BS as agree with you. The facts are we cant even predicted or control the weather for tommorow nevermind such a complicated system as our atmosphere. Imagine the polution if we still all used horses.

Those who say it's BS that pollution results in increased temperatures are not saying pollution is harmless, unless they're bribed, fanatical dogmatics. I doubt you can mention that many scientists that completely disagree that the uncontrolled pollution is harmful.

What scientists disagree about isn't whether wrong atmosphere composition results in an increase of thermal energy inside the atmosphere, but how that energy will be distributed. The point is, if the temperature increases too much we'll need an absurdly uneven distribution of the heat in order to make as much of earth inhabitable for humans as is the case today. Similarly, a too great decrease in thermal energy on earth is dangerous for the very same reasons. We humans can control the average thermal energy, and past experience has shown us approximately how unevenly distributed the thermal energy in the atmosphere usually is, so we know which average earth temperatures to stay within.

The average temperature is controllable, but there are other factors which can increase or decrease temperature by up to 5-10 degrees. We therefore need to keep the average temperature well controlled, in order to have marginals for these events.