User talk:Rbpshp

Your edits to global warming
The article is about the issue of recent climate change, not change over time scales spanning more than the length of human civilization. Please learn what the article is about before you make future edits to it. If you have a problem with people reverting your edits, discuss it on the article's talk page. -Amatulic 01:32, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

An article on recent climate change can benefit from information that puts that change in context. Putting recent climate change in context does not in any way undercut arguments that recent changes are impacted by human activity. However, it is important for people to know that the climate has been warming for thousands of years. I suspect the continuing deletion of this small amount of context is driven by politics, not education. As Wikipedia says, don't post an article if you can't stand people editing it.


 * You'd do better if you discussed it on the Talk page first. Please note also the WP:3RR, which you appear to have already violated.  bikeable (talk) 01:58, 20 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Global warming is put in context later on in the article. The lead part of the introduction only about the focus of this article, which is the scientific point of view on the recent observed global warming. Count Iblis 02:01, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I'm not sure who is violating the reversion rule. I am providing additional content, not editing content. The only content that has actually been edited is mine, which has been deleted. And additional accurate information should usually be welcomed in an encyclopedia while censoring is extremely intellectually suspect. However, I am happy to communicate on the talk page as well. As to the substance, the context currently presented in the article is insufficient, primarily going back to just the Little Ice Age. How myopic. Additional context is important given that many (possibly most) people do not understand even our most recent context of an 18,000 year warming trend, much less the cycles of warming and cooling that have occurred over millions and billions of years. For intellectual integrity, any discussion of temperature change over the last several decades should clarify that although the climate has been warming for thousands of years, it is possible that human causation is now playing a major role. Here is the evidence. Providing this context makes the discussion more interesting. Censoring makes it less interesting.