Global Warming

Ok, hot debate topic: Global Warming. I am pretty sick of hearing about it. It is interesting indeed to study both sides of the issue and see what they have to say. My position is essentially that global warming is real. However, what we do not know is what the effects on climate, sea levels, and the environment are. We don't know if temperatures will rise, or eventually fall. It could cause an ice age, or melt a lot of the ice on the planet. We just don't know. It could create a Utopian environment for all we know.

The main fact is that carbon dioxide levels are at an extremely high level, and based on the available information (like Arctic core ice samples) it has never been this high. Given the crap that humans are belching out of their factories, cars, and airplanes, it is not surprising. Until somebody can pin-point another major source of CO2, I am going to believe this is a human caused event. The temperature is only up slightly above historical trends. If this CO2 really had that much of a drastic effect on temperature, I think we would see it.

So, what about all the Al Gore crap? Well, Gore is a complete dork. This is his little way into the folds of fat on people, scratching and clawing your skin to make you listen to him. He needs a political stance, and some way to make money. This is it for him. He can kiss my fanny. There is not much scientific, historically based fact in what he says. More hurricanes? How do you know? We didn't track them before 100 years ago, so it may be a trend. Rising ocean levels? That is purely based on temperature. We haven't seen enough of this to know why, or what is next. Famine? Please... read the Bible and watch Sally Struthers as she has been working with famine kids for 250 years. Climate change? Whatever dude, the climate on this planet changes constantly. Many scientists believe that more that 6000 years ago that north Africa was a wet paradise. Signs of continual change are everywhere. Anyway, that just wets the surface.

So, where I don't believe we should just shut down our refineries and oil plants world wide plunging us back to the stone ages (like Gore the environmental hippy whore), I do believe we should put more effort into studies and put in reasonable efforts at decreasing emissions, finding new clean energy sources, and whatever else we can do. That just makes sense. Everyone knows that we are damaging our environment with emissions, cutting down rain forests, and polluting chemicals, etc. Lets focus on that sort of stuff first without bankrupting the planet in the process. We have bigger things to worry about, like food and water shortages looming on the horizon, or like a government that seems to screw everything up by doing anything. They should just keep doing nothing like they usually do, which seems to work quite well.

The bottom line is that over-reacting is foolish, but so is not acting at all is also.