Croyant - English is my strongest language, not my first. If I made some grammatical or spelling errors, it's because I'm trying to type fast while thinking about alot before I forget it haha. Orb - The industrial revolution was a short period in our history, the fact is that we won't always be releasing such an amount of harmful materials into the air. With the rate at which we advanced in our technological understanding over the last 150 years, I wouldn't be suprised if we can end the possible threat to the tempature of the world, which is actually never the same at any given time so it's a bit hard to determine the actual real "tempature" of the earth.
Frank, I think it's safe to say we're using more fossil fuels then ever before. Remember, the industrial revolution wasn't half as developed and didn't have half the machines that we need to power today. Renewable sources still don't make for enough.
Orb - Putting your trust in the NOAA is the same as putting your trust in any other US government organization. The integridy of their honestly and work is something of a unknown :lol: Not that I'm saying there hasn't been some changes in the enviroment.
Orb - Bringing that up raises a good topic, once we burn up all the oil and fuels that we can access we'll have to move on to a new major source of power. If the icecaps do melt as an increased rate, hopefully we can use water to somehow cut off on the excess amount of water in the seas and oceans aswell as not ruin the air as much as we are now. Sorry, went completely off the topic... which was actually already off toic.
Frank, this is on topic since it questions the validity of several major scientific theories. In any case, the fact is that we are getting warmer a lot faster then normal. And since it coincided with a lot of dead, full of carbon dioxide plants being burned up, I think it's fair to say that it played some part in it. Unless god is trolling us...
"To prove there is no god, means that you must see and documenf every square inch of the universe at the exact same time". Good luck with that science
Augustus - By that logic; to prove there is a god, you must document every inch of heaven at one time. Good luck with that, church.
Religion causes too great of a conflit. There will never be a time when all of man kind believes the same conviction. It just will not happen. The tensions between religions are very fragile...