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@dooks
Can I have a little rant? I'm getting sick of smuggo bandwaggon jumping ignorami (including several people I really otherwise like) banging on about individual instances of weather as definitive evidence of climate change. Or worse, sarcastically mocking those who don't constantly make these spurious links as being "frogs in boiling water" or just generally backwards climate change deniers.
I am not a climate change denier. Given the available evidence and current scientific consensus it does rather look as if man's contribution to climate change is undeniable and potentially rather worrying.
I will admit however that I still have several lingering questions about the solidity of current predictions over tens and hundreds of years in the context of pre-existing cycles of tens of thousands and millions of years. But given the scientific consensus and lack of evidence to the contrary I have decided to take a rational approach which says: the apparent lack of disbenefit from doing what we can to limit our impact says to me, even if we turn out to be wrong we might as well do everything we can to limit our impact. That's the scientific, rational, logical, morally best approach right? Do least harm to ourselves, other people, the planet and everything on it. Or at least Do whatever it is that is most likely to minimize harm? That's where I've landed up after years of wanting to jump whole-heartedly on the climate change train but having niggling, lingering questions that I've never had an entirely satisfactory answer to.
But what gets on my tits is people who purport to be on the side of the planet in the name of science all that's enlightened, altruistic and great who go about laughing at informed and well meaning people who say things like "you can't link the current bad weather directly to climate change". Or earlier this week, Cameron's bold statement "flooding is linked to climate change" statement was greeted on twitter by thousands of fucking irritating twats responding "Duhhhh! You think?!" etc. These dullards do their cause no good at all.