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[charli_lady]

Global warming is a myth in my opinion. Im not saying us polluting the planet hasn't had a knock on effect but no where near as bad as some make out. 

The funny thing is, the sort of people that make it out to be worse than it is are often very similar to the sort of people that throw around statements like 'global warming is a myth'! 

The surface temperature of the Earth has been increasing, that's not a myth. Whilst there are regular natural temperature fluctuations (Ice fairs on the Thames in Victorian times vs. vineyards in Medieval times) the overall trend is an increase. Some of this could probably be put down to the stuff that Toseland mentioned but it seems unlikely that it is just a coincidence that a human population increase from 1 billion to 9 billion over the last 150 years or so just so happens to coincide with an increase in temperature. Especially since the increase in temperature is much steeper than increases that have been identified in the previous few 100,000 years. 

(In fact, I looked it up and found an article where someone worked it out as a 1 in 1000 chance that the temperature change or 'global warming' is due to natural causes rather than human activity - not that I can check his Maths!). 

Granted, certain newspapers can describe global warming in such a way that it seems like a myth, but let's be honest, they could sensationalise a chocolate biscuit to the point when you don't believe in it.

Niall, you're lovely, but please don't say things like 'global warming is a myth' or at least, go away, do some reading from something vaguely reputable so you understand it and then, if you're going to say it, back it up with a valid argument.

Next thing you'll be telling me you don't believe in dinosaurs.

Anyway, this is not a thread about global warming, cooling or dimming so I'm going to step away from the soapbox.