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oedipusaurus_rex ago

I agree that human impact on global warming is often exaggerated, but most of these graphs don't have labeled axes, one of them focuses entirely on CO2, which is something that both sides of this debate are guilty of, and the one about climate models is editorialized. Climate models run the gammut, and all of them, including the ones that predict low values, are just predictions about the future of a complex system. The overwhelming majority, if not all of the models are going to be wrong, though the actual values are likely to fall between the models with the highest and lowest predictions.

Another thing that I see people doing a lot that bothers me is talking about how the earth has natural temperature cycles, but no one bothers to look into the cause of those cycles. They just say "natural cycles" like it makes sense when it doesn't. I don't think that Antarctica is going to move north any time soon, or that India, Australia, will reverse course and cut off the Antarctic Circumpolar Current within my lifetime.