[Paradox]

Greetings,

At the end of the day, observation will decide the debate. This takes time. Cbacba makes valid points, as does Simple. I think what Cbacba fails to admit (or understand) is that we are bearing witness to an event that is throwing our entire globe into a state of civil unrest. Drought, famine, floods, super-storms and overall climate chaos is resulting in a constriction of global carrying capacity. This is happening now and I am quite certain will only become more and more intense in the coming years.

Simple and I have remained gridlocked in a disagreement about the cause of current trends but underneath the surface we (and I can only really speak for myself) understand that the science is not conclusive either way and future observation will be the only conslusive means of knowing for sure. At this point, climate is evicting millions of people and with what lies clearly on the horizon, this number could reach into the hundreds of millions and billions before too long. We could wake up tomorrow to an ice-dam break in Antarctica causing sea-level rise (which feedbacks causing more glacial collapse), disruption of the ocean currents would certainly follow (maybe shutting down the Gulf-Stream), the sun may decide to bake us into a fiery hell of forest fires and mega-storms in the next few months reducing our food output through drought and further starve our neighbors. Mexico is already having food-riots due to the increased price of corn.

This is one of those things that is happening already but most people are too ignorant to realize. The smoke is running out and the mirrors are all broken. Every official report we are hearing that professes doom and gloom is conservative. We are facing a crisis now and if it hasn't already, it will infiltrate your region in one manner or another in the weeks, months and years to come.

Global warmers may be right but it is too late anyway. We must put our resourses to preparation and hope mother nature manages to reach a balance conducive to our survival. First we must witness what this solar cycle has in store for us and hope the Mayan prophesy of 2012 (the long-count calendar) is a bunch of rubbish. I am afraid it is not...and something extraordinary is about to invade the sanctity of our existence. And I don't mean this metaphysically. How do we prepare? That is the question. If you are in the crosshairs of this beast we call climate-change...move, if you can.

~Paradox