Quote Originally Posted by gypski
Regardless of what the naysayers are saying, climate change, or global warming, how ever you wish to term it is happening. Below is from the National Weather Service. Forty-eight years since its been this cool in the Pacific Northwest. And the East Coast and the South are cooking early in June. :thumbsup:

Record in Eugene, Oregon on latest day to reach 80 degrees...

Eugene has yet to reach 80 degrees this year... breaking the latest
first occurrence record set June 19th in 1962.
... the earth has been undergoing climate change ever since it came into existence. Tho I will concede that we have some influence, our actual ability to really do anything to it other than react and try to survive when Mother Nature tries to kill us wholesale.

The average volcano eruption puts more 'greenhouse' gases into the upper atmosphere than humans have ever created, ever since we started doing so in the 1930s. Please don't take my word for it--I could be lying. Look it up yourself. Really.

For a great eye-opener on things, I dare ya to read The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjørn Lomborg, a dude who used'ta be their poster child...