Yeah -- two things I gotta add because people at Fark and coming through my shop never understand them:
1) Naturally occurring mechanisms that sort of compensate for climate change exist because Nature hates any extreme situation, not just a vacuum. A lot of people seem to think that these processes exist because Nature naturally wouldn't let things get too bad for us. You know, the whole The Earth Is Too Big To Fail humanocentric Intelligent Design attitude of how stuff has happened before and will happen again and it can't possibly affect us too much you alarmist twits.
Really, you'd think a forest fire would be Exhibit A in the case of People vs You're An Idiot. Sometimes things get too bad for everyone.
2) The controversies related to global warming have to do with specific individual studies, researchers, component theories, and data sets. This whole idea that one bit was wrong and one detail was retracted and therefore the whole thing is crap is like discovering that the milk in your fridge has spoiled and concluding that all cows are just bullshit, man.
Although if you live near a ranch that raises steer, I do understand how you could tend toward that conclusion anyway.
