Do you believe in climate change?

Smith had it almost right.
Humans are the host, they only carry the virus. The virus is collectivism in all its forms; socialism, communism, democratic governance and yes, even capitalism (in the form of corporate-socialism).
Collectively, each of us form the bars of the cage that imprisons our mind. Mr. Anderson or 'NEO' had to learn that he didn't need to belong to the Matrix, he was free to think for himself-fully and completely. Only then you turn from being a parasitic consumer in the collective to a sovereign creator, accessing the infinite.
You create your own reality.
You ask "is climate change real?" Answer: "If your mind creates it, then it is real to you."
Climate change isn't a religion by itself, it's only one of many sacraments of the greater religion of "ISM"

 

That's how the dinosaurs fixed climate change and created the Ice Age. Then again who or what ended the Ice Age?

 

That is a bit far fetched. The dinosaurs got extinct due to an asteroïd. Life on our planet was not able to cause a climate change. To be fair, the dinos got extinct 66 milion years ago. The last ice age was 30 milion years ago, and the one before that ended 267 milion years ago. Quick math : it took 36 milion years to get from dino extincion to the next ice age. The last ice age ended 11.500 years ago.

 

@borabora : don't forget oil isn't only used to make fuel. Every plastic in the world started in an oil refinery. I found an infographic describing what a barrel of crude is used for.

Everybody is talking about our consumption and what it does to the environment our kids and grandkids are going to live in. Noboby utters a word about the fact we will run out of the black stuff and do something about that.

 

My point was this planet has gone trough extreme changes in climate regardless of the amount of time it took to happen or the cause.

 

'Fossil fuel' is a misnomer used to give the illusion of scarcity. There are no dinosaur juice nor cavemen in crude oil.
Oil is made of a large chain of carbon molecules. Notice that most of our cooking oils come from vegetable sources. The same goes for crude oil, it is the product of vegetation biomass. As long as plants keep growing, dying, decaying, and their oils consolidate within layers of rock, you will always have a source of crude oil.
There's no oil scarcity whatsoever.
The concept of "peak oil" only means that our refinement capacity is at its maximum, not our rate of collection. We could easily improve efficiency of gasoline engines, even combine it with hydrogen technology which exhausts water vapor. If we would get off gasoline and go between diesel, methane, and ethanol we'd have no problem keeping up with demand. Methane and ethanol burning are the cleanest while even diesel gives a power to pollution output far cleaner than that of "green energy" alternatives. Carbon is part of a cycle. What we output gets sequestered by grasses, algae, microbes, trees, etc, which then makes more underground oil.
We're not even touching that 'third rail' of Nikola T's "passive energy" systems yet. Hold on to your hats when that starts hitting mainstream. If that were implemented, the Universal Church of Climatarians wouldn't have a pew to sit in anymore.

 

This is priceless MSM reporting going on here.
CNN seems to completely forget all about their Climate Conspiracy long enough to give us a 250 million year death sentence when Pangaea brings sexy back. I hear people say "you can't make this stuff up." Wrong! All of this breathless, up-to-the-minute emerging news is fabricated bullshit. Keep that in mind before watching this and it will be much more entertaining.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/26/world/supercontinent-earth-intl-scli-climate-scn

 

Yes but I also accept that it's a natural progression as well! Man has added to the speed of the destruction that we see.

 

Yes the climate is changing……..just like it has for millions of years.

 

Climate change is real and man made. Some say climate is always changing; but that's weather; not climate, which is stable over long duration of time. The problem we face today is the rapid scale of the change, which is unprecedented in Earth's history. The world's flora and fauna do not have the time needed to evolve to the pace of change without going extint.

 

The climate has been changing forever remember the ice ages and the Sedimentary rock found in the mountains came from oceans covering the earth at different times,
yes what we are doing now changes the climate some but its a bump on the chain of events that was happening anyway.

 

@pezzheaddazzler: Climate has been changing, that is true.
But the current change is extremely fast, compared to other changes of climate in the past. This makes current events so dangerous. Ecosystems and human life dont't adapt to it fast enough. The current change induces droughts, floodings and other extreme weather events. If the intensity of these events increases, we may end up with a dire situation concerning food and water supplies. This affects the poorest people most and will increase migration pressure.

 

No to mention that the Sun also has changes of activity that directly effect out climate and weather patterns. They also dismiss forest fires, which in California is caused by their own ignorant policies, and volcanic activity. All of which, except for forest fires, there is nothing we can do about.