Pwns wrote:youngterrier wrote:
You've brought up lot of points but at the same time you've exposed your idiocy.
We know a lot more about physics, at least in terms of how climate and molecules work, because we can test how molecules, gases, etc interact with each other in a lab setting. I mean really, your post shows a complete ignorance of our understanding of physics at the molecular level. One thing we do know for sure is that we know a lot more about physics than we do molecular and genetic biology, because physics stuff is easily tested, whereas the genome of the human body, though mapped, has enough information in it to to where it will take a very long time to know what genes or combination of genes will do exactly what function in the human body.
Physics doesn't really have that discrepancy, at least on the atomic level because there isn't a molecule of which we study the interactions with that are millions and millions and millions in parts. We know how the atmosphere works because the simplicity of it with it's Nitrogen, oxygen, etc makeup. We know that it doesn't matter if it's 10 atoms of oxygen interacting with 10 atoms of element x, or a thousand atoms of oxygen interacting with a thousand atoms of element x, it's going to act in the same way, except amplified by 100 because of the amount of atoms involved. Contrast that with our understanding of genetics and biology when literally there are millions or billions of factors and variables contributing to the body, whether it be genetic or otherwise, and it is MUCH simpler and clearer to draw a distinction.
I also think you're selling scientist short in terms of what we know about past climate, but I haven't done enough research on said topic so I won't acknowledge that point.
So what you are saying is, you think there is enough genetic differences between, say, the French and Caucasian Americans that could account for the fact that they have lower incidence of heart disease with more saturated fats in their diets? And genetic factors always create variability as you say, but overall physiology is the same across all people and is understood in a way comparable to what is known about atmospheric physics.
And you didn't answer my question...how can one be sure burning fossil fuels is causing climate change when climate change itself is not understood at all? No one can explain the ice ages and the global cooling at the end of the mesozoic or the ice ages, ergo climate science is SOFT science.
Why do you complain the comparison to health sciences research isn't valid because genetics isn't understood but give a pass to climate science for not understanding past climate changes?
youngterrier wrote:
I'm open to the idea that the number of carbon emissions are naturally increasing with more aerobic respirating life forms, however you'll be hard press for me to believe that the increase is that of which matches 2% to 5% of emissions we produce artificially per year. That's insane.
Actually, it's not insane at all. Insects ALONE produce more CO2 than all human activities combined. If CO2 from respiration is really so negligible, then why do the global warming chicken littles make such a hullabaloo over cows and just ignore aerobic life forms that have biomass that are many millions of times larger than cows?
You misunderstood what I was getting at with the genetics and stuff. saturated fats and heart disease stuff has way too many factors playing into it, including genetics, lifestyle, diet, etc all of which are different for different people, so outside of general claims about how people generally live their life in contrast in the two countries, you're not going to get a precise answer, let alone a scientific one unless you're evaluating on a case by case basis.
Also, they have a great idea as to how global cooling took place at the mesozoic period. Volcanic activity covers the sky, blocks out the sun, and cools off the earth, as could an asteroid impact. it literally took me less than a minute to google it and find an answer, so I'm willing to bet there are plenty more in-depth answers, but here's the first link I found:
http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/g ... ozoic.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
So really, I reject your premise that they "don't know"
And for the last comment, you completely brushed over what I said. All aerobic respiration life is weaved in under the "natural process" category. That microscopic life afterall is more abundant than other life, as it is the oldest. The fact is, unless there is a global "genocide" if you will of animals, specifically targeting animals, Darwinism naturally assists them and we won't expect too much of a decrease, especially with insects which are nearly impossible to wipe out. This means that the number of carbon emissions by insects is going to be steady and hard to decrease. Therefore it's not going to be relevant and here's why:
the issue isn't that humans dump 5% and animals contribute to 95%, and therefore we shouldn't care. The issue is that there's a natural balance, but we're disrupting and accelerating warming by increasing our input of carbon emissions by unnatural means, while taking away the photosynthesizers by unnatural means. The scale comparison is more accurate than the mortgage, and I'm trying to get that through you guy's heads. If we're at 100 lbs of carbon emissions and 100 lbs of photosynthesizers, every year we're adding a quarter of a pound (using Baldy's numbers that he fails to cite, but I run with regardless) to the emissions while taking away from the photosynthesizers. We would see minor warming even if we didn't take away from the photosynthesizers. Adding emissions adds to the greenhouse effect unless there's a photosynthesizer to counteract that, and seeing as we're not adding any, the CO2 is not going anywhere and accumulating in the atmosphere, hence the 41% increase in the last 100 or so years. The warming is slow and seemingly trivial, but if nothing's done it will accelerate, like it somewhat has in the last 25 years or so.