Global warming or natural effects?

[Charade]

I'm no expert by far, but from what I understand both has/can happen. Some animals adapt, others die off.

And this has happened for many hundreds of millions of years. The only ones we can even hope to save are the ones we directly affect. Like with DDT and habitat destruction.

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

This is my current view. I think we have a small effect, but we alone are not causing the warming up of the earth. I do think we need to protect our natural world, for a variety of reasons, not just to halt the warming (I don't think we can actually do that).

This is pretty close to how I think about global warming. We flatter ourselves if we think we can outdo nature itself (aside from "nuclear winter"). In the global and universal scale of things, we are laughably insignificant when it comes to environmental impact. I think its hilarious that we (human beings) look at something like Hurricane Katrina and think "Hey! We did that!"