The Day The Earth Stood Still
August 21st 2007 23:05
I blog a lot and not only at this site. I know I've written about things before but it may have been written elsewhere. When I get intelligent comments that point things out that I may have covered, I wonder if I must continue to repeat myself. In case you haven't heard, I BELIEVE THAT GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL!!! Clear enough? I believe that man's contribution is as significant as the global warming that was around during the dinosaurs!
My study in reptiles(lizards in particular) and their growing northern(colder climate) distribution made me see at a young age in the 60s that there was warming occuring. I was young and had no idea that it was global warming.
We all remember the Tsunami of 2004. We forget Krakatoa and other destabilizing weather occurances in the 1800s. Something that caused a drop in the earth's temperatures by at least 2-3 degrees F. We had killer frosts in the summers and famine was a real occurance.
I remember in the 1960s and 70s when there was talk of an Ice Age. Yes we feared Global Cooling rather than the current Warming. Talk was based on Northern winters, just like now GW comes up in the summer! Seems that winter means Ice Age and summer means Global Warming. Does it really take E=mc2 to figure this one out???
A comment in my last entry went like this...Global climate change is a natural occurence, but over the last twenty years there has been more heating than what is natural with the earths temperature.
Why I love this comment...because of what occurred some twenty years ago. I'm sure I wrote about it but in case I didn't...
Let's remember this, this, etc. Then my experience and the newscasts of that eruption. The volcanic cloud(with more carbons than a billion men can emit in a billion lifetimes) stretched from the West to the East coasts. That was over 8000 miles! Plus this volcanic cloud was caught in the Jet Stream and circled the earth a few times. Funny, but after that this the global warming crap started becoming an issue!
The earth is built to sustain life. It is also about balance. Evolution is more about the survival of the fittest and animals(including man) must adapt or die and be extinct. Global Warming is real, but man and other animals will survive IF they can adapt.
I refuse to get into the spiritual aspect because too many arguments will arise over the interpretation of one's religious beliefs. All I have to say is that we are on God's timeline and when the end arrives, oh puny man, only fools will wish it away!
My study in reptiles(lizards in particular) and their growing northern(colder climate) distribution made me see at a young age in the 60s that there was warming occuring. I was young and had no idea that it was global warming.
We all remember the Tsunami of 2004. We forget Krakatoa and other destabilizing weather occurances in the 1800s. Something that caused a drop in the earth's temperatures by at least 2-3 degrees F. We had killer frosts in the summers and famine was a real occurance.
I remember in the 1960s and 70s when there was talk of an Ice Age. Yes we feared Global Cooling rather than the current Warming. Talk was based on Northern winters, just like now GW comes up in the summer! Seems that winter means Ice Age and summer means Global Warming. Does it really take E=mc2 to figure this one out???
A comment in my last entry went like this...Global climate change is a natural occurence, but over the last twenty years there has been more heating than what is natural with the earths temperature.
Why I love this comment...because of what occurred some twenty years ago. I'm sure I wrote about it but in case I didn't...
Let's remember this, this, etc. Then my experience and the newscasts of that eruption. The volcanic cloud(with more carbons than a billion men can emit in a billion lifetimes) stretched from the West to the East coasts. That was over 8000 miles! Plus this volcanic cloud was caught in the Jet Stream and circled the earth a few times. Funny, but after that this the global warming crap started becoming an issue!
The earth is built to sustain life. It is also about balance. Evolution is more about the survival of the fittest and animals(including man) must adapt or die and be extinct. Global Warming is real, but man and other animals will survive IF they can adapt.
I refuse to get into the spiritual aspect because too many arguments will arise over the interpretation of one's religious beliefs. All I have to say is that we are on God's timeline and when the end arrives, oh puny man, only fools will wish it away!
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There is absoloutely no corelation between volcano activity and CO2 emissions for the most part, there is al ittle bit of peaking and declining in places like Hawaii but it would seem that the way volcanos erupt and send out CO2 is completely different to the way we humans do.
Irrespective of that all you're doing is showing that global climate change is natural, however what I'm showing is that it doesn't hold true enough. Right now were living in a warmer climate than what is natural of the earths cycles over the last few thousand years. Taking into account volcanic activity and all that.
As for Global cooling? scientists do research, if they contradict themselves it's because they recognize they were wrong at the time. Remember, science continually develops, back then there was no consensus that the earth would freaze over, that was just sensationalism from preliminary findings.
Some scientists from back then were in fact trying to disprove global warming would occur as a result of man (and would rather be a natural occurence), however since then, after actually researching the matter they came to the conclusion while the warming is natural, it is only natural in part. Thousands of years of the earth heating and cooling, so why is it in the last 20 years there has been a marked increase in temperature that goes beyond those thousands of years? Were working n the fundamental assumption the earth cycles in temperature, but it has heated up far morethan what it should over the last few years, theres something else at work, the sunspot theory was debunked, the idea volcanos are doing it is irrelevent given volcanos are naturally part of the earths cycle, whats left?
But for the sake of a little thought experiment, lets say I agree with you, there is no man made global warming, it's 100% natural.
So what now? Do we not care? Do we continue to use up our limited resources? Do we continue to pollute the atmosphere with CO2 that generates acid rain? Do we continue to cut down the amazon rainforest?
In fact to end all the above listed disasters w'ell have to take the same precautions as we would if we were trying to lower our affect on the environment.
I've heard enough crap coming out of the right wing nutjobs, they can go so far as to claim smoking does not at all pose a health risk, the single most stupid thing I've ever heard in my life.
They can go further, they mumble tripe about the rapture and the end of the world, they say absoloute bullshit about natural disasters proven without a doubt to be caused by man (such as the great barrier reef dying) claiming it's all just a natural process.
It's annoying, in the end we can even pretend global warming is 100% natural and somehow our little contribution doesnt drastically change the way t h ings work (something that is so scientifcally unsound it goes against the basic principles of first year highschool chemistry).
In the end, you can't deny were using up our resources, polluting our environment, and you can't deny we have to do something about it on the scale of (and maybe even greater than) what we would do if we were combatting global warming.