Okay, Gaylord 🙂 Good luck!

You talk of previous climate changes but the thing about climate is it isn’t a static thing, it changes, thats what it does and always will do regardless of what we as humans do. Indeed to suggest that current human emmissions are on a par with volcanic activity in the past is quite something.

Current levels of atmospheric CO2 are 338 parts per million or about 0.0338% of the air that we breath. I find it hard to believe that such a tiny amount of gas could have such a massive effect on what is a hugely complex and chaotic natural system.

The fact is there is no evidence to link humans to global warming. However if you have some then please post it up and let me read it but be aware I’m alergic to weasle words such as ‘might’ ‘perhaps’ ‘could’ ‘maybe’ ‘suggests’…etc, you get the idea.

Stay ignorant at your own peril Gaylord.

All over the world in 2010 temperatures were higher than ever. These changes are not “natural” (previous climate changes were typically started by a lot of volcanic activity that sent greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, creating the same kind of warming that our own carbon emissions are causing.)

And those climate changes resulted in mass extinctions. It’s cool if that doesn’t worry you. But if you were smart, you would start preparing yourself and your family for very real changes. For starters, if you live near a coastline that will be submerged when sea levels rise, it might be worth moving inland.

Just sayin’.

Gaylord – You are mixing up two fires. There was an earlier fire in the Golan (caused by an “ecotard”) and confirmed by someone who was there as such. The Carmel fire was caused by youth playing with fire. The article you are linking to on the JPost is sponsored content produced by the KKL. Jewish National Fund.

http://www.jpost.com/GreenIsrael/PEOPLEANDTHEENVIRONMENT/Article.aspx?id=195702

However you are right that there is nothing controversial about the unseasonably high temperatures and lack of rainfall. These are perfectly natural cyclic events that have been happening for all time and nothing to do with any trace gases released into the atmosphere by humans.

Even if the initial spark was caused by accident (has this been verified?) the reason the fire continued to rage so uncontrollably is because of unseasonably high temperatures and lack of rainfall. I don’t see what is so controversial about that very obvious relationship.

You’re calling Green Prophet writers brain dead?

Yes, a scientist would probably put it this way:

“The Greenpeace hypothesis of Global Warming being the cause of the Israel Carmel Fire failed when the paper was peer-reviewed”

I expect Greenpeace to retract their statement

http://www.jpost.com/GreenIsrael/PEOPLEANDTHEENVIRONMENT/Article.aspx?id=195702