Climategate

[steelish]

A couple of things; first, the "this is all natural" thing is wishful thinking. There's absolutely no evidence that this is the case.

I never said "this is all natural". What I said is that my theory is the planet has a natural life cycle and it's too soon in mankind's existence to PROVE that we have that much of a negative effect on it's cycle.

Second, it doesn't strike me as extremely rational to believe that we can pump literally millions of tons of chemicals into the atmosphere and think that nothing will happen.

Again, that is not what I said. It's not that I believe we have absolutely no effect whatsoever...it's that I find it difficult to believe that in the last 200 years of technological advancement, that we influenced the planet to that degree.

On cap and trade, we already do it for sulphur dioxide to control acid rain. It works, it hasn't driven anyone out of business, and it hasn't made any nation any poorer. If anything, it helps generate wealth by creating a new markets complete with new technologies. This isn't some wildly speculative economic/environmental theory, it's a tested method that's shown real world results.

It's easy to find both pros and cons