People who argue that global climate change isn't real because rising global temperatures are part of Earth's natural cycles and then point to inconclusive evidence are essentially also saying that Abraham Lincoln was never President of the United States because you aren't allowed to draw correlations between now, the past, or the future.
Just because the Earth cyclically sinusoided (sinusoided is a trademarked word of TAE) between two major inflection points for millenia, then the Industrial Revolution happened and the inflection points went out the window doesn't mean that humans caused it, because past global climate patterns are irrelevant to the current global climate pattern that is being revealed in the present, and not only that, you cannot prove that in the future the inflection points won't either reappear or appear at new levels because of a global climate change that happened regardless of human existence!
Similarly, just because I witnessed with my very own eyes Bill Clinton hand over the reigns to George Bush who then handed them over to Barack Obama doesn't mean that the current pattern of people taking the job of President has always been the rule. You can't prove that Abraham Lincoln was actually President because there are no living witnesses, and pro-Lincoln historians are obviously biased. It's just as likely Stephen Douglas was elected and current historians are skewing the data to push their Republican agenda. Furthermore, there is no reason to believe that anyone will be elected after President Obama, because you can't interpolate forward that just because the trend has been to elect President every 4 years for the last 240 years, that it will continue into the future. It's just as likely a Presidential term trend shift is occurring as we speak, and Obama will be President for 25 decades.
UPDATE: Told you so.
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Thursday, 3 September 2009
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