Quote Originally Posted by Erloas View Post
*I find the claim of deviation from the normal temperature of the earth laughable at best considering that in the 4.5billion years the earth has been around its been constantly changing temperature. Which isn't to say that we aren't taking part in the change in climate. But that you can't claim we're going to destroy the world when its already been much colder and much hotter then it is now and has been in the last couple hundred years. Obviously living organisms can change the climate, bacteria and plants have been responsible for large temperature changing events in the past.
The problem isn't the temperature. It's the speed that it's changing at. In geological time frames, this is like stepping from a cool winter day (40-ish Farenheit, or 5 degrees Celcius) into a sauna. If the temperature had changed over the course of, say, a few thousand years, it wouldn't be as dangerous. But the huge change over just a couple centuries has pretty big effects on the environs and inhabitants of Earth.