CS Lewis, the author and Christian theologian, was, perhaps not surprisingly, a great advocate of reading old books. This, he argued, forcibly reminded you that every age had its characteristic assumptions and errors. Past controversies showed that “both sides were usually assuming without question a good deal which we should now absolutely deny”, and were “all the time secretly united ... by a great mass of common assumptions”.

Lewis’s point was that we should try to remember the same thing would be true of the present day, too: there would be assumptions so widespread, so taken for granted, that they would go unquestioned and unchallenged."

On Monday, February 19, 2024, Ed Lomas wrote:

From 900 AD to 1800 AD, there was a Medieval Warm Period followed by the Little Ice Age.? Prior to recorded history, there were several ice ages.? I believe the earth is going through a warm spell, but not that it's all caused by an increase of a couple hundred parts per million too much carbon dioxide, and that is excess CO2 is in turn caused by wealthy people's motorcars and jet airplanes.

On Monday, February 19, 2024, Anabel Perez wrote:

Ahh the britannica, it was one of the "important" purchases when I was young.

As to weather change, I follow two rules: there are some macro patterns or whatever that have changed in the last 50 years (or less), like receding icemarkers in Antartica, and the local small clearly human driven changes, like deforestation or overusage of soiles that generate barren places in just a couple of years. Both are easily seen by any individual that just takes a look and verified by any number of scientific and economical studies.

What seems to be the new discussion is what causes the first macro changes: is it human driven? or is a natural phase? Can we do anything about it?

i guess it's hard to accept human influence on a wordly scale.

When the ozone "hole" appeared in Antartica and later closed ?did we do any of that?

Are we really causing the general temperatures to rise (at least in Buenos Aires, it has been over the last 100 years or so)?

I believe we are, but I guess there's still room for faith and cherrypicking the science that will support one explanation or the other.