@oralloy,
oralloy wrote:
That is incorrect. You are applying the "denialist" label to hardworking scientists who merely report facts that the left wishes to suppress.
Climate has become politicized. 'Denialists' are people who can't stand the political/economic ramifications of acknowledging the effects of human activities on natural climate and thus put effort into building models that deny those effects.
Quote:livinglava wrote:When you grasp the big picture of how energy on Earth works, you can see for yourself how human activities that alter ecosystems will also alter the longer term climate trends.
Sorry. I'm only interested in hard provable facts.
What is not 'hard' and 'provable' about energy dynamics? Ecological systems are complexes of chemical pathways involving energy use and storage. Just because they are complex and involve biological organisms and systems doesn't make them any less real.
Fossil fuels are a byproduct of living ecosystems. Atmospheric carbon gets taken up by plants and fed to animals. Biological sediments contain carbon and stored energy, and they become fossil fuels over time.
Why do these facts seem less than 'hard' or 'provable' to you?
What other theories are you considering to be provable by fact? I.e. how do YOU think the climate works except by taking carbon out of the air and putting it into living things, which gradually turn into energy-rich sediments?