Forests and carbon capture

[Labster]

And that right there is one of the best arguments I have ever heard to disprove the idea that global warming/climate change is man made. Forget the science for a minute and realize the arrogance that it takes to think that 200 years of activity could cause the planet to change that much.

How is it arrogance?  I don't understand this argument at all.  And if it is arrogant, how does that disprove any portion of any other argument?

I've seen it formulated as a religious argument, that God is in charge of the weather and the Sun.  But right there in Genesis 1 God gives us dominion over all the living creatures on Earth.  So I don't understand how we couldn't affect the thing we were specifically put in charge of, or how it would be arrogant to say that we exercised a power granted to us by God.

* Labster STILL WANTS AN ANSWER, RAJVIK.

I drive an utter pl;anetkiller of a car. It is fucking awful. It makes people's eyes water. It sets monoxide and gas alarms off. It doesn't even have a catalytic converter. I pay for it in fuel and road taxes that are painful. I'm keeping it going until it finally grinds to a halt because it's still cheaper than getting into debt to buy a new, cleaner, car. Can't afford a new car. Can't afford to replace it. Can't afford not to drive to work.

I don't know what that say.

Just a reminder that manufacturing and transporting a new car can use more energy than the fuel efficiency can save.  Cargo ship bunker fuel is really quite terrible stuff; lots of PM and sulfur emissions.  Sometimes the status quo is the best solution.