[liberallarry]

All it means is that a healthy sense of scepticism is needed

Yes, but I observe that the temperature rises when a forest is replaced by a parking lot...and that we're pouring tons of garbage into the atmosphere every hour. It would be miraculous if that turned out to be good for us, as if eating raw sewage turned out to be a cure for cancer.

[rock58seg]

as if eating raw sewage turned out to be a cure for cancer.

My chickens don't seem to have a high rate of cancer. Just might be something to that. Another assertion shot to He!!?

Please, When you and the Man Made Gore-Bull Warming crowd, zip up, let the rest of us know. I'm tired of a wet neck.

[agere_contra]

It would be miraculous if that turned out to be good for us

The evidence since the 1800's is that high life expectancy is strongly correlated to industrialised, modern societies - i.e. the very societies that "pour tons of garbage into the atmosphere".

Whereas the societies that live in relative peace with our gentle Mother Gaia (for instance the poor bastards in Swaziland) die off at age 33.

[aruanan]

Yes, but I observe that the temperature rises when a forest is replaced by a parking lot...and that we're pouring tons of garbage into the atmosphere every hour. It would be miraculous if that turned out to be good for us, as if eating raw sewage turned out to be a cure for cancer.

Human environment in the United States is cleaner and safer now that it has been in over a hundred years. The air is cleaner. The water is cleaner. There are more forested areas. And this all has been a trend since before there was anything named OSHA or the EPA. The only thing that has happened since then has been a decrease in the rate of improvement due to excessive government interference.