Global Warming
While I was convinced in the beginning by Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth movie that the earth was in the throes of a man-made global warming disaster, the skeptic in me is coming to the forefront. When I look at the graph above I see the earth's current temperature well within normal fluctuations of the last 4500 years and thus it is very doubtful that current temperatures or trends are any kind of issue.
With all the problems in the world, and, the small odds that there is even a global warming problem and even smaller odds that it is man-induced, I find it strange that this issue has been raised so high on the priority list of issues to attack by a world political coalition. Is global warming another artificial issue created to induce hysteria and laws/policies like carbon cap/trade that play into the hands of Goldman Sachs and others who will reap billions and trillions of dollars in profit at the middle-classes expense?
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When you find PCB’s and other toxic manmade chemicals in the Arctic and Antarctic regions no one can argue intelligently that those are natural. I will give you another stupid analogy. If I am going to go hunt with 10 men and all of them are going to poach should I say screw it and poach as well. No!
Let’s leave science out of it just for a moment and look at it from a morale perspective. What does that tell you, any of you? I am singling no one out here I am just making a broad statement and asking a question basically of the masses. I know what feels right to me.
Global warming should be a moot point. Here is the definitive question! Stop polluting because it’s the right thing to do or it’s ok to pollute because the earth will heat up anyway. Can anyone really defend that?
Green credits, and people making money from Global warming whether defending or prosecuting the idea are for another conversation. That is another issue all together from what I am implying above. That is a capitalistic and greed issue.
The sad part is this same, newly discovered data has been available through the internet and our own local libraries. They are called Geology text books, books on Weather and Climate, dendrochronology, palynology (pollen study), ice cores, etc. These provide the historic and climate record. It also takes time to do the datamining and understand the oceanic and atmospheric convection and conveyor systems and associated chemical reactions that are taking place to begin to question the commonly written, "scientists agree that global warming is largely caused by human activity" without presenting any science except to show an isolated chart with temperature and CO2 on it that can be interpreted as CO2 level increases leading temperature or can be read as I read it CO2 following the temperature increases. A big difference and even larger implication for natural cycles with regards to solar energy. Largely the impact of methane from the decomposition of vegetation that had been locked up at the higher latitudes for lo these thousands of years since the last ice age and is now being converter to CO2 is virtually ignored, or we blame cows. Perhaps this is to get a double hit score at both Global Warming and anti-carnivores at the same time. Which takes me back to what I believe the "Cause" we should be addressing is, not Global Warming, but ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION. It won't go away even with more data; it is a continuing problem in air on land and sea; and may be an even more immediate threat to our water supplies than the unknowns brought about by Global Warming. The data is irrefutable, is not a popular opinion issue and should help in containing the mythic human activity caused Global Warming. Certainly it does not require the drastic and costly changes in lifestyle required to solve Global Warming. At Seagate we used to talk about the futility of engaging in large scale projects that were so large that they were like solving world hunger or "boiling the ocean". That is what solving Global Warming is like to me. Going against the natural forces of solar energy, the negative feedback loop from methane as we head towards the end of the current interglacial. More difficult than trying to move mountains.
Besides we need to save the money required for ridiculously complex management programs like "cap and trade" so that we can expand the war in Afghanistan.
I say let's get off of the fossil fuel band wagon and let's reduce our CO2 footprint and let's see if the warming trend changes.