Are the facts getting in the way of the folks who want the world to take drastic measures to stop global warming? Or are critics taking natural climate variances -- like a decade-long stable global temperature even as carbon emissions continue rising -- out of context and should be ignored? Given that we have to acknowledge that the world has not been heating for the past decade-plus, and some even forecast a bit of a cooling over the next few years, what do we do with that information? Proponents of man-made global warming continue to insist that the threat is real and the time to act is now, that we can't wait, even though forecast models have been off by wide margins, the world is not getting hotter and they cite other factors -- such as volcanic explosions -- to explain the stable temperature. Shouldn't that at least give us some pause, to remind ourselves that this big, complex thing we call the climate maybe more complex than we currently understand and that making absolutist statements -- on either side -- is a bit foolhardy?
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