Comments by "nexus1g" (@nexus1g) on "How To Argue With Climate Change Deniers" video.
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If you put the numbers in the same proportion, 1 in 4 people are skeptical about climate change which isn't that much different than 1 in 6 scientists being skeptical about human activity being a factor in the change in climate. I personally think that human activity is affecting the climate, whether it's ranching (methane), fossil fuels (CO2), or any number of other human activities, but that human activity is a significant factor in climate change is a theory and can never be proven -- only debunked. We can support it with many proven hypotheses to establish it as a generally accepted fact, but we're not even close to doing that, and there's a number of questions that still need to be answered.
But then again, the climate has changed dramatically in the past. At some point, no matter what we do, we will have to deal with other ice ages or warm interglacial periods with little to no ice. We'll need to deal with such things sooner or later, whether we reverse our changes or not.
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