It is not arrogant to think that humans can fundamentally affect the Earth's environment. We have already burned a hole in the ozone layer, sulfur dioxide from midwest power plants nearly destroyed northeastern forests, and now mercury from Chinese power plants is being deposited in Nova Scotia. More importantly, solutions were found for the first two of these problems - despite their complexity and the same challenges that are now being leveled at the climate change issue. We certainly have no control over plate tectonics, Mt. Pinatubo or long-term climate change, but we do have the ability to mitigate the impacts that we create - which is what is the fundamental issue.
Yes it is arrogant and naive. We are not God. The complex systems on this little blue ball are beyond our understanding.
We burned a hole in the Ozone? We have no idea what the Ozone layer looked like before 1985. Oh and by the way, it turns out we need a hole in the ozone layer to fight global warming
http://insciences.org/article.php?article_id=8210 Oh my another crisis that needs study and government funding!
Almost destroyed northeastern forests? I live in the northeast, our land in this state is currently 89% forested and was throughout the 20th century. It was never even close to being destroyed. Alarmist language on your part.
Politics seeks power and control, science seeks money for studies. Global warming has made them bedfellows as it serves the purposes of both to create greater alarm than there needs to be.
Remember in 1975 many of these same scientists were warning of us the next ice age was coming.
http://denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm Computer models can not consistently predict weather accurately 24 hours in advance yet we are to believe it is easier to model the global climate and predict the weather 50 to 100 years from now. Sorry to say but one has to be quite gullible to swallow that one.
