[Heisenberg]

I think this just about sums up why the anthropocentric, climate change-denying view is such a dangerous one.

[jessupjonesjnr87]

Are you an atheist Heisenberg?

[Heisenberg]

I'm agnostic, but lean towards theism. Have all of my posts about Hellbound reprobates in Russkie's threads given the impression that I'm a Christian fundamentalist?

[jessupjonesjnr87]

That's fair enough, I don't understand atheists who are worried about the environment and endangered clumps of living cells.

[Heisenberg]

Oh, I absolutely accept we'll never know for sure. I suppose I lean towards the belief that there is a higher power, although I couldn't expand on what that means.

[Akuma]

I'm worried about the fact that there is more carbon-dioxide in the atmosphere than there has ever been in the last 400,000 years, and that ratio is rapidly growing.

The last 400.000 years is a blink of an eye compared to earth age. Not long ago you had a climate in europe compareable to brazil.

[Oxymoron]

This ignores the spirit of human exploration, which is not solely for economic benefit. No one climbs Everest, or completes a solo Arctic expedition, looking for "resources". NASA has given us an incredible amount of knowledge and perspective on the solar system for a trivial amount of money (it was about .5% of the US Federal budget before being slashed at the behest of the Tea Party).

Spirit of human exploration has always been economic. Whether the Vikings, Columbus, Conquistadors etc, the quest was always based on expanding resource base. Those were true exploration, the mount Everest was useless and foolish.

Listen I am not against the space program, but we should be using the resources to create a real defense against Comets, Meteorites etc.
That I see a need for, but going to the moon? So that we can go to another barren planet? What for?

[Beren]

The last 400.000 years is a blink of an eye compared to earth age. Not long ago you had a climate in europe compareable to brazil.

Sure, and the earth has already been a snow- as well as a fireball before, so why should we care?

However, this chart makes me worry a bit: