It is so refreshing to hear Benedict XVI speak out against the anti-human and unscientific environmentalist movement. Environmentalists expect everyone to accept all of their claims even though there isn't any real empirical evidence supporting them. Just because two things are happening at the same time, in this case a rise in carbon emissions and a rise in temperature, does not mean that one is the cause of the other. While there is some empirical evidence that suggests that the climate is getting slightly warmer--and I don't know how conclusive that evidence is--there is no empirical evidence that shows that carbon emissions are the cause of this increase. Environmentalists are just guessing that these emissions are causing global warming.
I would not be surprised at all if scientists one day discard the theory of global warming as having been nothing more than pseudo science like eugenics or phrenology.
Amen brother! Correlation is not causality...
While there is some empirical evidence that suggests that the climate is getting slightly warmer--and I don't know how conclusive that evidence is--there is no empirical evidence that shows that carbon emissions are the cause of this increase. Environmentalists are just guessing that these emissions are causing global warming.
If you havent seen Dennis Miller's latest standup special (All In)...check it out! He questions the accuracy of the temperatures recorded 100 years ago: "Excuse me for not trusting temperature figures from the year 1905. They're still sh***ing outside in the woods, but I'm supposed to believe they had a strangle hold on the Fahrenheit of the earth's magma. I'm sure that was an accurate reading."