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The most regular conspiracy theories are
1. "creationism": Evolution doesn't exist
2. Climate change denial
3. Jesus existing
not denying climate change, but i think we know FAR too little about it to say that humans are causing it.
the earth is on a tilt, which has a lot to do with why seasons happen. Winter in the northern hemisphere happens when the northern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun, and summer happens in the northern hemisphere when the n. hemisphere is tilted towards the sun. but the thing is, the tilt of the earth oscillates over the course of tens of thousands of years. as this tilt oscillates, there are times when the north pole is pointed more directly at the sun, this would cause the ice caps to melt, which would cause massive climate change... which is happening now.
so maybe the greenhouse effect really is bullshit. the axial oscillation corresponds with the ice ages pretty closely
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
Also, most of the planets in the solar system have also had similar temperature increases. the changes in those planets obviously aren't due to soccer moms in SUVs
http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-other-planets-solar-system.htm
does this mean i think we can ignore carbon emissions? no, not at all, but as i said, we know far too little about it to conclusively say humans are causing global warming
does this mean i think carbon emissions have nothing to do with the global warming?
No offense, but citing Skeptical Science as a source kinda disregard everything. About 95% of the worlds scientists agree that humans are speeding up or causing climate change. The remaining 5% are from special interest groups.
What utterly fucks me off about the entire climate change debacle is not so much the deniers per se (save that for another debate), but the insane short-sightedness of destroying unfathomably massive areas of rainforest, wilderness, etc. in persuit of fuel oil, logging, fracking, open face mining, etc. for the sake of a few more dollars. Destruction done with such impunity simply cannot last - you can only shit on your doorstep so often before you're drowned in shit and it seems to me that big industry, oil concerns & other multinational concerns just don't see this.
What it comes down to for me is this is a finite planet, with finite resources, yet current corporatist, unregulated market economics is constantly wanting infinite economic growth without looking to properly invest in renewable & clean energy sources. Once that gets fixed, a whole load of problems could hopefully be sorted soon after.
Related, I've heard that developed countries like Europe, the US, etc. are blocking development of solar energy in huge swathes of Africa as it will lead to these areas being fuel rich and essentially, they'd be the countries in power, more so than OPEC. I know cooling the water required to run solar cells takes a fair bit of energy and obviously, water, which large parts of Africa don't have, but it was interesting thought at least.
Rant over, as you were.