Quote Originally Posted by Ironside View Post
Why a small temperature span is preferable is quite simple. If you were living at the end of the latest ice age, then after it ended it a generally better climate than before. That is of course if you didn't live at the beach as the water level rose more than 100 meters.

Isn't the second line a kind of oxymyron? If our actions is to limit our own impact (who according to the sceptics are none), how would this have unintended consequences?
It's not an oxymoron at all, but simple fact. The environment is extraordinarily complex. We don't know what effect our actions are going to have. Some people might hypothesize, but they cannot foresee everything. So unless you're arguing that the climate change alarmists can predict with absolute certainty ever single event that will occur if we follow their advice, then of course there's going to be unintended consequences. And those might well be on the global scale that the alarmists want us to act on.

So we agree that religion is bad?
No - each must be judged individually. In this case it is bad because blind faith has no place in science.

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