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The real problem is that ecologists don't tell you that the clime fluctuates all the time. Have you heard of the little ice age (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age)? We should already have a real ice age, but fortunately it haven't started yet (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vostok-ice-core-petit.png), would you like to live on a glacier?

Do you know that the same scientists that propose global warming now have said that there will be global cooling (in 1960s/1970s)? Oh, and BTW, its interesting that now they say it's "climate change" not "global warming", are they preparing to change what they are saying again?




I have no idea what ecologist have to do with it, but every climatologist is easily going to have a lenghty chat about climate variance and fluctuation with you. Basically that's what climatologists study. Yes I know what the little ice age is, but I really can't see your point. There is a lot of natural fluctuation, but that doesn't disprove the greenhouse effect. Just because the sun or vulanic activity cause a cooling effect in the short run doesn't change the basic fact of the greenhouse effect in the long run.

Your Link to the Vostok Ice Core Data should really make you scared just add 100ppmv to the co2 level and try to imagine the temperature.

Global cooling was never a widely accepted scientific theory, in fact the scientific consensus even back then was that global warming was going to happen in the future.




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