I went to a big Christmas lunch yesterday with a bunch of friends. Much food, much wine, much fun.

But then someone near me started mouthing off about Climate Change being a scam and just went on and on about it being a hype, and how climate change was a fallacy… the whole nine yards.

It just went on and on and eventually I bit and started to argue the case. Not because I am a believe in one thing or the other, but because to me the one thing we can't afford in this debate is to take a position that is absolute. To me it is pretty obvious from my own observations – at this point in time it is getting warmer. Whether we hit a tipping point which ends up in global cooling and a new ice age is presumably a possibility, but at this point in time it looks like it is getting warmer.

The guy who was primarily mouthing off talked too about being an atheist. Presumably that means he also believes in the Darwinian principles of evolution.

What I should have asked him was this: If you believe in evolution and you believe that the the earth has changed over millions of years and species have modified, why wouldn't you believe that human intervention can cause climate change through the increased creation of CO2? The issue is then whether human beings will be like the dinosaurs and die out to be replaced by a new dominant species on the planet, or whether we can evolve and adapt to a new environment.

Isn't that the question?

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