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People will doubt things forever and day, subjective viewpoints will always produce differing levels of engagement with this issue. I will add one thing though. James Lovelock's latest Gaia book illuminated this issue most clearly for me. He illustrated the highly complex interconnected nature of the worlds eco system and the flowing balance of collective biological and climatic systems working together. This is not currently factored into any of the large scale climate models that calculate used by the the atmosphere in isolation as though it existed separately from the rest of the living world. In fact the ecosystem of the earth interacts with its atmosphere on many complex levels. Such simplification was startling to me and reminiscent of the computer stock trading models that appeared around a decade ago that sought to calculate future stock trading patterns and invest ahead of them. Such machines worked well in a balanced isolated virtual markets but never fared nearly as well in real life stock trading as they ignored the incalculable human element of the live stock market. I fear we may be hugely over simplifying the worlds climate if we expect it to rise consistently in line with our increasing CO2 output into its atmosphere. Surely the reduction of pollution in any form is to our long term benefit of us all and this trumps any economic or politically based short term issues.

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