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Originally Posted by thegamerslink
However it has been proven that our industrial practices have not had that much of an immediate impact on global climates.
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That's the controversy. Different groups have different things to say about it. Nothing has been proven or disproven, depending on who you ask. What I've seen (and I haven't seen much) is that academic scientists tend to think anthropogenic warming does exist and is significant and non-academic scientists tend to think it doesn't. Notice that I used the words "tend to." Neither side seems to have delivered a knock-out blow to the other, but each thinks they're correct beyond question. The extremes on both sides think the opposing side is trying to destroy the world: one by ignoring global warming and the other by stifling development. We're humans, we like to take sides, so it seems. But propoganda on both sides clouds the issues.