Thoughts on Global Warming

During my ponderous pacing, I have wandered to a somewhat stray thought days after reading a thread on global warming and, more specifically, its origin.

From what I have read on the subject (not a lot, unfortunately), I have yet to come across scientists dismissing the idea that we are warming up because the earth was too cold before. It would seem to me, from my reading, that we just assume that, since we have always lived in somewhat stable weather conditions with only slightly fluctuations due to the cycles of the earth, sun and moon, that that is the way the earth, climate-wise, is supposed to be. Are we really, as a species, so incredibly arrogant that the earth is only supposed to be in such a way so we are comfortable and every other way is wrong?

From what I have read about dinosaur fossil findings, it would appear that, during the time of the dinosaurs, the earth's climate was much more tropical, on the whole, including smaller polar ice caps and ice shelves. There is also evidence of grape vines in Greenland which should be impossible since, according to the scientific community, this is the warmest the earth has ever been...According to the scientific consensus that, through pollution, humans are causing the warm to such a point so that it was similar to prehistoric conditions, then we must have polluted the earth then, too. After all, that is clearly the only possible way for the earth to get to such temperatures. Right scientific community? Not that I'm necessarily against "green" (eye roll) solutions.

I also enjoy how scientists completely disregard their own ideas on how the climate works when all of this global warming stuff was published. The earth, according to climatologists and meteorologists, goes through periods of warming and cooling (planetary average) because it was too warm/cool before, so therefore it must heat up/cool off in order to reach its equilibrium. I wish I could remember where I was going with this.

Anyway, I also find it arrogant of scientists to blame the majority of the cause of the warming globe on human produced pollution. After all, we are the only things that can really affect the environment, right? Right.

Ah, I remember where I was going with this before. Even if scientists are correct on global warming and its consequences, won't the damage the earth's reaching for its status quo put it back to its equilibrium, therefore fixing the problem? Wait, I lost it half way through. Damn.

To be cold and callous, perhaps that, if scientists are correct, the projected destruction will be, in the scheme of things, a positive occurrence. Many people die. Different climates, leaving room to spawn other species and the adaptations of others. Good, right? That is the entire point of survival of the fittest? If something suddenly happened, instead of gradually like this global warming shit, then wouldn't it be good, not bad, to have adapted to such warm conditions instead of everything being wiped out?

I enjoy how scientists are so completely sure that they are correct about global warming when they can't predict local weather a few days in advance, yet are doing so on a global scale years in advance. The variable numbers rises exponentially the larger the square mile you try to predict the weather for. We can't get all of them correct locally, with a relatively small quantity of variables; how do we know that we got it correct for so many? Because out of the millions of computer models made for the direction of the earth's temperatures were going at a certain point is correct? Bah. I think I also forgot to mention we don't know all of the variables that affect the earth nor how to accurately measure the ones we do know of. What is the figure used for the amount of cubic heat the sun permeates per second at 96*67* (latitude and longitude)? Indeed.

Not to mention the same thing that is happening on earth is happening on Mars. Or is that all of that human made pollution, too? All of those exhaust pipes on those land rovers are really messing with the atmosphere on Mars. Man oh man.

To summarize, we predicting something to happen, and causing panic over it, using incomplete information, ignoring other pieces of evidence, being arrogant over the cause of the condition of the earth, being ignorant of how the earth was before our records indicate, not to mention using correlations to show causation. Brilliant.