If climate change is not being increased by human activity, does that mean we can continue polluting?
Many of you, especially the neoconservatives, are dismissing the threat of climate change as a “liberal” fiction, but the science clearly demonstrates that it is occurring. Some of you accept that, but insist that climate change has happened before and has nothing to do with atmospheric pollution.
Certainly there is historic and prehistoric evidence of climate change. The Greeks and Romans recorded a shift to warmer temperatures about 500 BC, and the so called “little ice age” that began in the eleventh century is well documented. While some are blaming the current change on human activity an argument can be made that it is a product of the Earth’s variable rotation.
Scientists have further argued that the Ice Ages themselves might have been signs of other climate changes. Given that some of those actually destroyed the higher life forms, should we not be worried even if pollution is not the cause?
Further, is it not possible that pollution could kill us anyway?
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