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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PrairieGhost" data-source="post: 346218" data-attributes="member: 704"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />  What kind of cameras were they using 1000 years ago?   I get your points, but glaciers over thousands of years grow and receed.  Absolutely man has contributed, but I doubt they have good reliable data on the amount of affect.  I know they old Earth's Resources Technology satalite, and more recently the  German satalite monitoring atmospheric co2 watch it disappear as it passes North Dakota.  We have looked at every habitat and found that it's our Prairie wetlands that are sucking up co2.  They can store as high as 32 tons per acre.  As a conservationist (not a preservationist) I believe a federal program for restoring wetlands is a win win if you believe climate change or not.  The benefits are an income for farmers on marginal or problem lands, habitat for wildlife ( not only Ducks but for example thermal cover for deer and pheasants)Pheasants, restoration of the aquifer (which is documented), reduction in flooding downstream, and if you believe  climate change then sequestration of co2.  We through the idea out yeasrs ago of a carbon market where farmers would get paid for carbon storage, and if someone needed to drain a wetland he could purchase carbon credits from the market who would in turn use that money to pay farmers who were storing carbon.A program such as I outlined has many benefits so it would not be looked at as a waste by those who don't believe in climate change.  I am sure man contributes, but our asestors heated with wood, and I think a few million campfires gave off some carbon.  I also think nature is going to cyclical warm and cool even if man is extinct.  I'm all for wetland preservation because if global climate change is  caused by man then we have mitigated for it, and if man has little effect then we still receive benefits and bang for our buck.</blockquote>

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