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Well this discussion is interesting. I think it is safe to say that just about everyone agrees there is global warming taking place. The bone of contention is whether it is man caused or a natural phenomenon taking place with perhaps a bit of a hand from man.
There are definitely two main camps...........both with the posters and the scientists...........those who think it is mostly just a natural planetary occurence and those that think mankind is systematically killing the planet. I do not think that anyone on here is going to convince the campers one way or another.
Not too long ago there was a group of scientists that proclaimed the beef industry was responsible for a significant portion of the methane gas emissions on the planet. My god, there were millions of cattle in North America that were burping and farting methane into the atmosphere at an alarming rate. I never saw it in print, but I often wondered how they decided that the methane produced by the domestic bovines was somehow more destructive than the methane produced over the millenia by the 60 million bison that previously roamed the continent.
I think that as the decades go by, we will find that the current 'truths' held close to the heart by both camps in the greenhouse gas debate, will in fact prove to be partial truths........with reality somewhere in the middle.
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