[EUPHORIC]

I can't figure out if I should say "Gimme a break" or "poppycock"...

[RightWhale]

There's another thread on this topic. There should be a way to join related threads.

[Holly_P]

The prehistoric changes in carbon dioxide and methane levels have been noted before but were attributed to natural causes

Volcanos have contributed more pollution than mankind in all of history. They are "natural causes" As part of nature anything humanity contributes are also natural causes. The earth has an enormous and adequate ability to handle all causes and effects.

[RLK]

Are there Nobel Prizes for far-fetchedness?

[stands2reason]

Well I guess we should just kill ourselves, then? Or at least start living in the forests like wildmen...

[PropheticZero]

Must be some smart fellas to be able to extrapolate ice growth rates back hundreds of thousands of years ago from about 3000 years or so of recorded history, and what maybe a couple centuries of any interest.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Did the Flintstones drive SUVs?

[Publius6961]

How about "some people have way too much time on their hands"? And the speculative powers of a valley girl.

[DeepDish]

In my family we keep very accurate records, I must now confess that one of my distant ancestors was named AAaaaaaaamn. He was in a word gaseous in the extreme which led to three divorces and two separations. He was condemded by the village shaman in 8037 bc (thats before Christ for you Atheist bigots) and burned at the stake. But not after having sired 17 children. Eight of these children carried in their genes the disaster which plagues us today. Although the Beano corporation is still protecting the descendants the expenses are spiraling out of control and we will soon be outed in what they tell me will be called an endoslung, whatever that is.

[tbpiper]

I can't figure out if I should say "Gimme a break" or "poppycock"...

Whatever you say, don't say "bullsh*t", too much methane. You'll just make the 'problem' worse.

[vpintheak]

Yeah yeah, we should all go back to living like nomads, and "caring" for the earth by becoming one with it. I suppose somehow capitalism will get the blame for this in some way. You know this is a load of bull, enough said.

[spodefly]

SUMMARY: The planet was perfect until all those stupid, selfish humans (probably Republicans) showed up and started growing crops and hearding livestock. Its been downhill since then.

[VadeRetro]

Leading the change was the revolutionary adoption, across both Europe and Asia, of agriculture and animal husbandry, Professor Ruddiman said.

Cow farts don't hurt the atmosphere until they're our domesticated cows.

[Vidi_Vici_Vinnny]

Are we talkin the same prehistoric man that lived at the end of the last ICE AGE?

[Jotmo]

That settles it for me. The only solution is the complete eradication of the human race from the planet.

I'm sure the good earth loving environmentalists will be happy to perform the service for us. Only on the understanding that they'll "off" themselves when they're done with the rest of us, of course.

Do you think that would finally satisfy them?

At least we wouldn't have to listen to their inane rantings anymore.

Sheesh.

[ZULU]

ACTUALLY global warming began way back in the Jurassic Period, millions of years ago.

Tons of decomposing Dinosaur droppings created massive amounts of methane and pungent smells. This caused the bad attitude later exhibited by T. rex, in the Cretaceous Period, when the smell had accumualted to unbearable levels.

T. rex was actually an herbivore who tried to reduce global warming by killing off all the other herbivores to stop them from defecating.