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Becareful with dichotomies. They are deceptive. One such dichotomy is 'global warming.' We often read the following assertions:
- Global warming is happens.
- It's dangerous
- It's caused by carbon-dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Ergo it's caused by humans.
The other side of the coin is:
- Global warming is just weather. There's nothing to see here.
There is a lot of false information in global warming. The famous "hockey stick" graph was composed with two distinct graphs. The author could not produce the data the graph comes from even after a court order. Micheal Moore never made the data available.
The graph supposedly included tree ring data as a proxy of tempurature. Using proxies give you a poor sense of how much something varies and mixing them together gives the impression that we have constant tempuratures year after year, when that's not the case.
For the period of time where they had both they removed the part where the temperature went down but the tree ring data indicated better growth of the trees. Could it be the increased carbon-dioxide was helping the trees to grow and thus ruining the proxy for temperature? So is it the case that the world's temperature is constant?
It happens that there have been warm periods in ancient history. The modern one started in 1850, after a long period of a cool period. There was also a Roman one, and also a Mideval one.
You don't need to accept the dichotomy. There are third alternatives. What about global warming is real but its just not something so bad or unnatural. Who wants to live with a cold climate? Would it be so bad to have a time when there is no ice? Imagine the with areas as large as the United States becoming habitable when today they are not. Imagines the wealth generated in the northern territories of Canadian and Siberia if they had reasonably warm weather. And just a chance to avoid a 200 year cool period which we are due to get soon. The incrased carbon dioxide has increased plant-growth the world over. People generate more wealth when living in warm conditions rather than cold conditions.
