I am neither a climate change skeptic, nor am I a proponent.
There seams to be a shift of sorts, but how much of it is due to natural fluctuations and how much is do to our activities? I do not now, and I do not think anyone really does.
Weather record keeping is new in history, and we cannot really see the big picture. Certainly climate has went through a lot of changing before we could have had any effect on it.
One example of change more recently that has been happening before we could have been the culprit is North Africa west to India. There is no disputing that the Sahara has been growing for some time.
There is a remnant of Nile Crocodiles in the Sahara. They did not track across the desert to get there. It is proof that it was once not as dry as it is now. There is a river in Turkey that translates into the name Crocodile River. There is not any in Turkey. There is also Biblical accounts of a creature that may be considered a crocodile in the Jordan River.
There is a gap in the Lion population between Africa and India where there is a population in western India. They used to range uninterrupted between the two along with leopards and cheetahs. I would say that the crocodile population ran uninterrupted between the two as well. Both only giving way to the Tiger, and Mugger/Saltwater crocs of Tropical India. Leopards need trees and crocs need water. Neither of which is found in any qty in the Middle East. There used to be more.
The point is that Northern Africa and the Middle East has been getting dryer for a long time. This area used to be much more Savannah and grasslands mixed with deserts. This is evidence of climate changing before we knew what climate change was.
I can mention many other examples in Europe etc. The point is that things have always been changing. Change is one of the few certainties.
Whenever politics and science begin to mix, I get skeptical. Everyone has an agenda.
There seams to be a shift of sorts, but how much of it is due to natural fluctuations and how much is do to our activities? I do not now, and I do not think anyone really does.
Weather record keeping is new in history, and we cannot really see the big picture. Certainly climate has went through a lot of changing before we could have had any effect on it.
One example of change more recently that has been happening before we could have been the culprit is North Africa west to India. There is no disputing that the Sahara has been growing for some time.
There is a remnant of Nile Crocodiles in the Sahara. They did not track across the desert to get there. It is proof that it was once not as dry as it is now. There is a river in Turkey that translates into the name Crocodile River. There is not any in Turkey. There is also Biblical accounts of a creature that may be considered a crocodile in the Jordan River.
There is a gap in the Lion population between Africa and India where there is a population in western India. They used to range uninterrupted between the two along with leopards and cheetahs. I would say that the crocodile population ran uninterrupted between the two as well. Both only giving way to the Tiger, and Mugger/Saltwater crocs of Tropical India. Leopards need trees and crocs need water. Neither of which is found in any qty in the Middle East. There used to be more.
The point is that Northern Africa and the Middle East has been getting dryer for a long time. This area used to be much more Savannah and grasslands mixed with deserts. This is evidence of climate changing before we knew what climate change was.
I can mention many other examples in Europe etc. The point is that things have always been changing. Change is one of the few certainties.
Whenever politics and science begin to mix, I get skeptical. Everyone has an agenda.
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