Oh, for heaven's sake.

[granite_lullaby]

Okay, I've had to clear this up for one person on my friends list already, so I'm going to do this as a post so everyone can see it. And no. I am NOT putting this behind a cut

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[nesf]

*shrugs*

Conversely it's not as straightforward as some environmentalists like to make it. It is happening but exactly why it is happening isn't so clear. Which particular gases are the culprits etc.

[granite_lullaby]

True, but at the moment I'm trying to tackle the "it's a myth" brigade. Gotta start at the bottom and work up . . .

[nesf]

Yeah, but since you didn't use a cut I decided to pick holes... ;)

[jimmynohands]

Ummm... Good ol' CO2. The predictions are all over the place, and precisely how much is our fault is debatable, but the mechanism is well known.

[nesf]

Methane recently came under a lot of scrutiny also, pound for pound it has a far stronger greenhouse effect versus CO2. It's also something that we've substantially changed with farming etc.

It's not so much the mechanism that's up for debate but what particular thing triggered the major increases and from there what we can actually do to change things and whether it can be halted etc.