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"Asking whether it's natural or caused by humans is silly," said Eric Steig, of the University of Washington, who wrote a Nature commentary on the new research. "We've changed the atmosphere so dramatically that it has to be mostly human. The only question," he said in an interview, "is how large the human influence is relative to other things."
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Except for the plants, which breathe in what we breathe out and breathe out what we breathe in, and cover more of the Earth than we do. And except for the lions and tigers and bears (and marmosets, and mosquitos, and worms, and bacteria, and...). For those with a Malthusian pall over their minds, it is only Man, existentially alone and doomed to crap all over himself and his world, until someone puts him out of his misery (and if we can make a lot of money putting him out of his misery, well...).
Of such is the depth and range of the modern academic mind. the fellow might as well have appeared in chorus girl costume, singing "Let me entertain you -- and we'll have a real good time!". Somebody drag him off the stage, the geeks in the audience are getting restless.
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