Kalypso
Smash Journeyman
Let's all forget we saw 'An Inconvenient Truth' for a second, and disregard all the media (Which is, in almost every case, ignorantly biased and completely null of facts) we have had sway our minds and look at Global Warming in a rational manner. These things, in order, must be determined for Global Warming to be a problem, and for action to be taken.
1) Is Global Warming Happening?
2) What is the cause of this Warming?
3) What can we do to reduce this Warming, realistically?
Each of these questions has interesting answers most people are rather ignorant of, although it's not really your fault, EVERYONE (This includes the vast majority of the scientific community, a very small % are environment specialists and the rest are just as vulnerable to being blinded by media surge as the rest of us) is senselessly biased and flash-screened on this issue by new-age environmentalism. There's no one person to blame, don't waste your time, just look at the truth.
1) Is Global Warming Happening?
Well, yes. And no. The Earths temperature naturally fluctuates, rather wildly. If you watch a Discovery Channel program about the study of Antarctica, they can cut open ice from thousands of years ago and chart the Earths temperature back hundreds of thousands of years. Not only is it not a straight line, but there are constant jagged changes. If you look at any section of 100 years, the temperature is either going up or down, and this is long before man could ever have an impact on the planet.
So in short, yes, at the CURRENT time the earth is getting hotter. Is that necessarily a bad thing? No. However, let's look at the causes.
2) What's causing Global Warming?
The answer to this question seems to change every few years, The real answer? No one knows. No scientist can say with any certainty that they know what causes warming or cooling. The most likely cause for this is, of course, that the earth is naturally fluctuating as part of its climate and we don't fully understand it yet, but there are some correlations.
CO2 and Warming- It's true that CO2 and Warming are related. However, here's the largest part where Al Gore completely fails, this ruins his entire argument, his movie, and likely a few years of his life. Warming causes a rise in CO2, not the other way around. I've seen this stated by scientists a good 5 times, if someone calls me on this I'll go dig up some links. Warming happens before the CO2 rises. Gore is right that CO2 and Warming are linked, he just didn't stop to think for a second that the correlation worked the other way.
Your Hybrid cars and funny lightbulbs aren't helping. They make you think you're helping, but they're not really. Electrical Cars have some amazing promise (Along with that of Nuclear Power Plants), however the technology hasn't progressed enough to make good use of it.
So what's causing the warming? Well, we don't ****ing know. No one does. The earths climate is simply far too complicated to know what's really causing it. CO2 emissions certainly aren't a good thing, but they aren't doing it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Global_Warming_Swindle
3) If Global Warming is happening, can we do anything about it?
This question has the most problem from the typical person, because a simple line of logic follows that is we are the cause of Global Warming, that we can stop it... right? Well, I've already shown that we aren't the cause, or at the very least if we are we don't even know how we are. So... what can we do about it? Write a poem, drive a hybrid, lobby congress?
None of the above would help, and the third leads to billions of dollars being wasted, maybe. However (And this is one of the only times I'm ever going to day this), George W. Bush has our back, Hold your replies, flames, give me a second to speak. The man refuses to sign the Kyoto treaty on Global Warming. Some of you may be thinking "That ****, he hates the environment," however his choice is very smart. That treaty puts enormous restrictions on the Economy, costs a ton of money, and doesn't really have any solid plan to reduce global warming. It is not supported by scientific facts, and it isn't.... reliable. He refused to sign it and saved us a ton of money.
If we don't know what causes Global Warming (Which we don't), how can we seek to change it?
A great many people want to help, and do what they think is helping. However, what they are really doing is giving money to opportunists cashing in on nation-wide warming hysteria. Welcome to Capitalism. In reality, since we don't even know what causes Warming, we can't stop it, and even if we could it probably wouldn't be a good idea. We don't understand the earths global climate well enough to start ****ing with it. We need to focus on other issues.
If you want to help the earth, donate to a real cause, that can really help (DONATE to a REAL scientific/charity group, taking steps to stop the problem, not a ****ing awareness group. Awareness groups are completely worthless and are a waste of money. Billions of dollars are wasted on 'breast cancer awareness,' when if all that money went to curing it no one would need to know about it because we'd have ****ing cured it by now. **** awareness organizations). AIDS, Malaria, Starvation, Malnutrition, Cancer, Stem Cell Research, etc. There are countless good causes where your money can really make a difference. Throwing money at the nameless Warming threat is a waste of everyones time.
In closing-
No one really knows why the earth is getting warmer, and it's very likely that it's getting warmer of its own volition.
Because we don't know why it's getting warmer, we don't know that it's us, and we know that it's NOT CO2 emissions. Reducing CO2 emissions is a false hope.
Even if we knew what was going on, we probably wouldn't be able to change it, and putting money in OTHER causes that we CAN change is a much more senseable matter.
I'll find more links tomorrow, although I've seen at least 4 different programs saying almost the same thing, that the Global Hysteria is ridiculous and based on false information. It's really hard to fight misconceptions that everyone has though, just look at recycling.
1) Is Global Warming Happening?
2) What is the cause of this Warming?
3) What can we do to reduce this Warming, realistically?
Each of these questions has interesting answers most people are rather ignorant of, although it's not really your fault, EVERYONE (This includes the vast majority of the scientific community, a very small % are environment specialists and the rest are just as vulnerable to being blinded by media surge as the rest of us) is senselessly biased and flash-screened on this issue by new-age environmentalism. There's no one person to blame, don't waste your time, just look at the truth.
1) Is Global Warming Happening?
Well, yes. And no. The Earths temperature naturally fluctuates, rather wildly. If you watch a Discovery Channel program about the study of Antarctica, they can cut open ice from thousands of years ago and chart the Earths temperature back hundreds of thousands of years. Not only is it not a straight line, but there are constant jagged changes. If you look at any section of 100 years, the temperature is either going up or down, and this is long before man could ever have an impact on the planet.
So in short, yes, at the CURRENT time the earth is getting hotter. Is that necessarily a bad thing? No. However, let's look at the causes.
2) What's causing Global Warming?
The answer to this question seems to change every few years, The real answer? No one knows. No scientist can say with any certainty that they know what causes warming or cooling. The most likely cause for this is, of course, that the earth is naturally fluctuating as part of its climate and we don't fully understand it yet, but there are some correlations.
CO2 and Warming- It's true that CO2 and Warming are related. However, here's the largest part where Al Gore completely fails, this ruins his entire argument, his movie, and likely a few years of his life. Warming causes a rise in CO2, not the other way around. I've seen this stated by scientists a good 5 times, if someone calls me on this I'll go dig up some links. Warming happens before the CO2 rises. Gore is right that CO2 and Warming are linked, he just didn't stop to think for a second that the correlation worked the other way.
Your Hybrid cars and funny lightbulbs aren't helping. They make you think you're helping, but they're not really. Electrical Cars have some amazing promise (Along with that of Nuclear Power Plants), however the technology hasn't progressed enough to make good use of it.
So what's causing the warming? Well, we don't ****ing know. No one does. The earths climate is simply far too complicated to know what's really causing it. CO2 emissions certainly aren't a good thing, but they aren't doing it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Global_Warming_Swindle
3) If Global Warming is happening, can we do anything about it?
This question has the most problem from the typical person, because a simple line of logic follows that is we are the cause of Global Warming, that we can stop it... right? Well, I've already shown that we aren't the cause, or at the very least if we are we don't even know how we are. So... what can we do about it? Write a poem, drive a hybrid, lobby congress?
None of the above would help, and the third leads to billions of dollars being wasted, maybe. However (And this is one of the only times I'm ever going to day this), George W. Bush has our back, Hold your replies, flames, give me a second to speak. The man refuses to sign the Kyoto treaty on Global Warming. Some of you may be thinking "That ****, he hates the environment," however his choice is very smart. That treaty puts enormous restrictions on the Economy, costs a ton of money, and doesn't really have any solid plan to reduce global warming. It is not supported by scientific facts, and it isn't.... reliable. He refused to sign it and saved us a ton of money.
If we don't know what causes Global Warming (Which we don't), how can we seek to change it?
A great many people want to help, and do what they think is helping. However, what they are really doing is giving money to opportunists cashing in on nation-wide warming hysteria. Welcome to Capitalism. In reality, since we don't even know what causes Warming, we can't stop it, and even if we could it probably wouldn't be a good idea. We don't understand the earths global climate well enough to start ****ing with it. We need to focus on other issues.
If you want to help the earth, donate to a real cause, that can really help (DONATE to a REAL scientific/charity group, taking steps to stop the problem, not a ****ing awareness group. Awareness groups are completely worthless and are a waste of money. Billions of dollars are wasted on 'breast cancer awareness,' when if all that money went to curing it no one would need to know about it because we'd have ****ing cured it by now. **** awareness organizations). AIDS, Malaria, Starvation, Malnutrition, Cancer, Stem Cell Research, etc. There are countless good causes where your money can really make a difference. Throwing money at the nameless Warming threat is a waste of everyones time.
In closing-
No one really knows why the earth is getting warmer, and it's very likely that it's getting warmer of its own volition.
Because we don't know why it's getting warmer, we don't know that it's us, and we know that it's NOT CO2 emissions. Reducing CO2 emissions is a false hope.
Even if we knew what was going on, we probably wouldn't be able to change it, and putting money in OTHER causes that we CAN change is a much more senseable matter.
I'll find more links tomorrow, although I've seen at least 4 different programs saying almost the same thing, that the Global Hysteria is ridiculous and based on false information. It's really hard to fight misconceptions that everyone has though, just look at recycling.
