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Though I seem to be jumping on this thread's boat a bit late, I wanted to point out a few things.

1. Global warming is real. It isn't something that is biased politically, but the media thinks it is, since apparently generalized liberals want to stop it and generalized conservatives don't believe in it. Because of this, they feel the need to portray both sides of the subject "equally," even though approximately 95% of scientists say climate change is real. The new IPCC report that is coming out this year says that there is a 90% chance that climate change is caused by humans. Whoops.

2. Someone (MUCH earlier) tried to make a point about temperature changing? And something about mercury? Regardless, these charts

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is from the 2001 IPCC report (also used in Al Gore's An Incovenient Truth, if it looks familiar). The second chart shows the average temperatures over about, the last 1000 years. Please note how significant the difference in temperature is in the past few hundred and fifty or so years from the long pattern in the past (this is about when the industrial revolution began). I think if you can read data that you see for yourself the drastic increase in temperature resulting from emissions.

(Apparently, I can't post links until I've put up ten posts, at least... which I am not about to do this second. Google "IPCC temperature chart" and click on the first link, the information from Working Group One is there for you to see.)