Originally Posted by Anteater

The biggest wildfire in human history was way back in 1910, long before the onset of what climate scientists have been talking about. How do you explain that?

The problem with conversations about climate is that, irregardless of what the scientists say right now, there is hard evidence that the planet has gone through warm cycles in the past that make what we are seeing today look like nothing. And human activity wasn't a factor at all in those previous periods, but we still saw Ice Ages and periods where CO2 was in high abundance anyway.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.