riding in a CC summer

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I fully believe in climate change just not the "factual" data that "proves" man is totally responsible or even has an impact. We pollute, sure and that is easy too see. Over millions of years this planet, its temperature, sea levels, gas volumes etc etc etc have all been wildly different, ice ages come and go. So many people have lost their critical thinking in favour of joining in with the latest "thing". A great contribution to understanding the worlds history is by the Australian Professor, Ian Plimer in his book "Not for Greens". Absolutely brilliant read with a foreword from the co-founder of Greenpeace.

Take this one tiny snippet from the book which provides lots of data points. "In the past the climate changed between cold and warm periods every 41,000 years. About 1 million years ago a 100,000 year cycle commenced. This involved, on average a 90,000 year cold glacial period followed by a 10,000 year warm interglacial period. We are currently 10,500 years into a warm interglacial period that peaked around 6,000 years ago. In the period from 12,000 to 6,000 years ago sea level rose about 130m at an average of two centimetres a year. Global temperatures have decreased about 2 deg Centigrade and sea level has fallen nearly two metres since the 6,000 year interglacial peak."

Factual data, Tev ? There is no "100% proof" for any event in the world which cannot be reproduced or which occurs infrequently or only once. All we can do is look at scientific data, peer reviewed over and over again, and conclude whether some conclusion drawn from the data is impossible, possible, likely, very likely OR indeed "correct". The later means, we have ALL reasons to believe the conclusion is correct. When our best scientists (indeed hundreds of them) - working in the field of CC for years, gathering in conferences, peer-reviewing the data and each others conclusions - come to the conclusion that CC is man made, AND when there is NO other, serious, comparable body of scientists coming to a different conclusion ...

... then it simply makes no sense whatsoever to say that the before mentioned body of scientists is wrong or not credible. You have the right to fabricate your own story or world view, but you cannot expect to be taken serious.

This is not a political statement, it is a factual statement not trying to insult anybody, and therefore it is a response which I hope is admissible on this forum.

i live in southern California what is this thing called rain?

did I say it rains in California ?