Couple of clingers in my de-converting

[Aractus]

I want you to know that I have more respect for you than most people on this forum but can you honestly say that 100 years ago man had the ability to do harm as much as they do today? Global warming is one issue that is a proactive harm. I think their are lots of un foreseen harms, like the spread of MRSA viruses. 

Of course they had the ability to do unspeakable harms 100 years ago, what about the British concentration camps in the Second Boer War? Here's a picture of one of the victims (warning: graphic):

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That little girl died aged 7 after being held in a British concentration camp in an attempt by the British to get her father to surrender. Concentration camps were used by a variety of different nations from the early 1800's through to the end of WWII by the Nazi's. More recently, in the early 90's there was the Dretelj camp, and in the 00's-present arguably Guantanamo Bay.

Post-WWII we have the Geneva Conventions. The two camps I just mentioned, Dretelj and Guantanamo both contravened the Geneva Conventions, and also the UN Convention against Torture. So while it's true that war crimes still happen, they happen on a far reduced scale from what they did in the past and there is far greater accountability. It is my fond hope that one day Bush, Cheney, Obama, the CIA staff in Cuba, and the Pentagon (, etc.) are held to account and prosecuted for their war crimes, preferentially in Geneva.

Global Warming is NOT a crisis. Here's respected climate scientist Richard Lindzen (contributor to IPCC reports):

http://youtu.be/i1CR0v7dwXU


And just look at how he gets heckled when interviewed by someone who ISN'T a climate scientist!

http://youtu.be/mOU306AvvHE

Is it any wonder why you only hear the alarmist side of the argument? That's what sells newspapers, and it's what sells policies that can benefit political agendas. We are in no danger of Global Warming harming our future on the planet, none whatsoever. Global Warming will have an inequitable effect across the globe, and that's true, and that's part of what we have to plan for. But it isn't going to wipe everyone out, nor is it going to create more droughts and more natural disasters. In Australia it is believed that for us overtime Global Warming will have the effect of shifting rainfall north whilst the national average remains constant. This will change the landscape over times, just as has always happened for millions of years now right across the world. There was a time when Antarctica was once covered in vegetation and land mammals. There are farms from the middle-ages on Greenland that are still under permafrost from the little ice age. That's recent history and goes to show that the fertility of the land is always shifting, and follows regional climate change.