The energy non crisis

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We know that Global warming is real.

Probably so. Problem is, no one one has proved--frankly, CAN prove--that the recent rise in global temperatures is caused by man.

The Earth has always experienced periods of warming and cooling. 55,000,000 years ago, during what was known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), global temps rose by over 40 degrees F in only 10,000 years. There were no automobiles or factories back then, to state the obvious.

Why are the polar ice caps melting?

Why are the Glaciers melting and leaving behind valleys that were once covered in tens of feet of ice?

The whole continent of North America was once covered in ice. This fact dismantles the correlation you're trying to make.

Can you explain why the core samples of ice taken from some of the glaciers before they vanished showed an increase in CO2 content in their gas bubbles that correlates with increased industrialization of the Earth?

Very easily. The Earth experiences natural rises and falls in CO2 atmospheric content. Has man contributed? Definitely. Can we say with any certainty that industrialization has caused global warming? Definitely not.

But here's where we might come together, Moose. Even though I doubt that global warming is man-made to the extent claimed, I think we should all act as if it is. Drive smaller vehicles. Carpool. Take public transportation. Use energy-efficient appliances.

The difference is, I want to choose to do it rather than have it forced upon me.