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in fact world temperatures had been falling since about 1940. It was around 1979 that they reversed direction and resumed the general rise that had begun in the 1880s, bringing us today back to around 1940 levels.
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Originally posted by Dermo
Yes, the earth has been warming and cooling since before Humankind existed and will continue to do so long after we have gone.
We still need to cut down on our consumption of fossil fuels and our pollution of the planet before we wreck it.
Originally posted by paulcottrell84
Yeah very true, but lying to the whole world surely wasn't the right way to go about it?
Originally posted by GobbledokTChipeater
Yeah, I believe so.
I don't know why but it seems that we're all being lied to. Perhaps the whole global warming thing is a step in the direction of a Life Tax. After all, anything that is alive produces carbon dioxide.