Global Warming
Let us all get a few things clear. My wife’s SUV has caused the earth to get warmer where it will never snow again, where the earth is hotter then ever, and most of all is now even making Mars warmer.
If you believe any of the above you are loony.
Look at history, the earth goes through cycles of warming and cooling. It has done it for thousands / millions of years. The earth may be one degree on average warmer now then 100 years ago. This is not due to human actions for THE MOST part. Sure we have some impact, but it is very very small and it is not impacting the survivability of the plant.
The Vikings came to GREENLAND (now covered in snow most of the time) 1,000 years ago and planted grapes. I guess their HUGE SUV’s - i.e. long boats - caused Greenland to warm up while they were there. I guess their huge outputs of CO2 and Ozone killed winter in Greenland until they left.
The sun has gotten hotter in the last few years (NASA measures that stuff and unlike global warming concerns temperature readings are fact based), Mars (further from the sun then the earth for all you high school seniors) is getting hotter too, thus the Earth is warmer now then it was a few years ago. When the sun gets hotter then we get hotter. No amount of human action can warm or cool the sun.
In the 70’s it was global COOLING that was the problem. Did we reverse all of that in 15 years and then go the other way in last 15 years? Now the problem is global warming, but there is snow in Malibu, and record snow falls in Colorado. Texas is frozen at the moment. How can that happen if the earth is warming to a point that all life as we know it is on the brink of disaster? I thought the seas were suppose to be dead by now too…at least that is what I was told in the 80’s. All sea life would end if we did not change. We consume more energy now, and the seas seem to be fine. I guess because New York is having a mild winter (until now) there has to be a problem though. Amazing how the once popular El Nino and La Nina effects have been forgetting now.
We just completed a hurricane FREE year. I thought we were suppose to have a RECORD year, which was suppose to be the first in decade of record years, due to the fact that the year before was bad, a record year including Katrina, and due to the effects of global warming. Yet we had NO storms hit the US. Does that mean that in one year reversed all the impacts of global warming that existed the year before. Some years we will have ALOT of hurricanes, others we will not, that has happened since the beginning of time. It is not due to human actions. If you want to point out the bad years as being linked to human actions, you had better be able to answer how human actions impacted the good years too.
Sure it has been a few years since Knoxville (home of this blog) got a big snow, but that happened before in the Knoxville area. Snow in the Southern Appalachians, especially when the city is in a valley between a plateau that takes western weather north and mountain chain that breaks up storms, has and will always be a sketchy thing. What I do know is that when snow is in the forecast I can not get into Krogers in Knoxville for a week, and every school bus driver in Claiborne county is scared they will get stuck at school with the students.
Bottom line the actions of man does not impact the warmth / coolness of the earth enough to effect the future of the plant. Should we conserve? YES. Should we develop other energy sources? YES Should we take care of the plant within reason? ABSOLUTELY YES (no one wants dirt water and foul land and God calls us to care for His creation/s) Should we recycle? YES. However, to act as if these things can save us from some future destruction of the plant is not reasonable thought and to force individuals to act in ways they do not want to in the name of protecting the earth is not reasonable either.
Have a great day and enjoy the earth. Be reasonable, be responsible, but don’t be ridiculous when it comes to calling people to change their lives to save the earth.
I see my friend, they have gotten to you. Bush and his cronies have made another person believe that global warming is a myth. I guess it could just be coincidence that his energy staff advisory board chief did quit and go to work for Exxon two days later! Anyways…Yes, the earth does go through ‘cycles”, but unfortunately for you and me this one has spiked just in the last 50 years, (a blip on the world’s timeline). Now compare this to the long cycles of ice ages and other natural phenomenon and you will see that such a dramatic rise in temperature in such a short time is truly something to worry about.
As for you being another SUV driver…well, again the power of suggestive advertising finds another victim who was led to believe that they ‘need” a gas guzzeling, enviromentally destroying vehicle. Boy did the auto manufactures sell America a bill of goods!…”Let’s build these atrocious gas-guzzling vehicles which will burn more gas (so our partners in crime, the gas industry) can sell more gas; we will appeal to Americans sense of adventure and call them rugged, macho names like ‘Explorer” and “Ram” (I’ll let you figure out the Freudian intention there) and let people believe they will use them to discover the “wilds” of America, (although 98% of them will never leave a paved road)…..Oh and we will market them as status symbols and make people believe that they are a better person if they have one parked in their driveway.” Well anyways I could go on, but why bother, we have been sold on these things already. Hopefully someday people will see that we don’t need these big cars to “survive” and will see through the smoke and mirrors that they (car manufacturers, advertising and the oil companies have put up). We are destroying the enviroment and we know it. Now I don’t expect us to go back to horses, but let’s face it, we need to rethink how and what we drive in this country. I mean, what about investing in public transportation more. They use d to have trains and city-wide trolley systems in the major cities which were great (but unfortunatley these systems were bought up and scrapped, by yes, you guessed it, the automakers). Let’s look to the Europeons and take some lessons from them, great public systems of transport and small cars. We can bring about great changes for the better, we just have to change our old ways of thinking!
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michael Grant — 1/20/2007 @ 9:02 pm
Well thank you for your reasonable, rational and respectful comment. We will have to agree to disagree on this one.
At no time did I say that we should not work on new means of energy (I think we should), I am very unhappy with our dependence on foreign oil, but how we should resolve these issues are the key issues that we would disagree on.
Again thanks for your comments, input, and respectful response.
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admin — 1/22/2007 @ 11:12 am