We're all going to die!!!
Well, not all of us...
500 million of us will survive - according to a claim from "controversial climate scientist" James Lovelock. If you're a Darwiniac, better get to the gym!
I have to admit - I'm seeing signs of global warming everywhere, though.
Like here. And here. And here. And here.
Great piece from Mary Katharine Ham on the whole nonsense, making a fantastic distinction between "global warming" and the more in-vogue "climate change" (need to cover all your bases, right?).
Interestingly, what is one of James Lovelock's main solutions to combat the global warming crisis? Nuclear power.
Hmmm...how do liberals feel about nuclear power? We know they are all for saving the planet, right?
Let's see - AlterNet calls it "madness." Al Gore doesn't see it as a solution.
Apparently, they are out of touch with 61% of the American population. But is that anything new? According to a 2001 poll conducted by the Associated Press, "Republicans were twice as likely as Democrats to support (nuclear power)."
Maybe Republicans are more "in touch"? John McCain is.
Though, Democrats like Hillary Clinton (!) seem to be "warming" to the idea of nuclear power as a combatant to the impending "energy crisis." Interesting...
As far as I can see, nuclear power is the first step to energy independence. If a by-product to nuclear power is cleaning up the environment, why not?
Much more to discuss here in later posts as I gather more info - if anyone has anything, pass it along!
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Have you read State of Fear by Michael Crichton? He intended to write a novel supporting global warming theories, instead he came up with no "hard evidence".
The problem with the media, and hack environmentalists is they are putting too much emphasis on the term "Global Warming".
Scientists know that we are impacting the climate, the difficulty is trying to guess how we are affecting it, and what long term consequences. By studying ice core samples from Antartica and Greenland's ice caps, researchers have determined there is more CO2 in the air now than any time since dinosaurs roamed the plantet.
http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=2607
It is common sense that reducing pollution; attempting to preserve wild life, water quality & air quality is the right thing to do.
There is evidence that the earth is going through a warm period, however we are at the closing end of an interglacial, or short warm period between ice ages.
Many researchers are concerned because they believe the ice age should have already begun.
Bottom line is, things like this are difficult to predict.
That being said, what is the point of fighting global warming activists tooth and nail when we know that reducing reliance on fossil fuels will not only be good for the environment, but it will be good for a volitaile political situation?
We should not have to stunt the economy if we begin smart conservation. In the long term separating our selves from fossil fuel should pay off.
One of the major threats as I understand it is that if the rate of ice melt at the poles continues/increases, and this releases tons of near freezing water into the oceans, there is worry that the temperature gradients will throw off the natural oceanic currents (major currents like the gulf stream which are based largely on temperature differences and which globally form a sort of conveyor belt system....) Anyway - global warming could essentially lead to the next ice age, or at least a global cooling condition, perhaps not a full ice age, but a much cooler climate for a period of time.
Chris, despite all your rants, you have still not countered the fact that there is more CO2 in the atmosphere now than since the age of dinosaurs.
And i want to reiterate what George N. Parks said: global warming is not what it sounds like. It is climate change, since if the Ocean waters rise as the ice caps melt, then Europe will face temperatures 8 degrees lower than normal due to the shifting of the under water currents (but this would be offset by the general rise in temperatures across the globe)
Did you read the Pentagon report? Here is the link to my post: it is under Chris's post "Signing off".
The link to the pentagon report is here:
http://www.mindfully.org/Air/2003/Pentagon-Climate-
Change1oct03.htm
(use both lines)
finally, MANY democrats support nuclear power as the only feasible way right now. And so do many republicans, and so do a large number of people who are in the majority in this country: Moderates.
Chris you should go read Lovelock's book, i think it is Gaia's Revenge, or Revenge of Gaia. Some important people at the Pentagon, CIA, and State Dept are using it as a basis for current studies, though I am not permitted to give names.
ummm...do you think there's more CO2 in the atmosphere because there are more humans on the planet than ever before??? I hope nobody expects us to stop breathing...
Besides, I'm not saying global warming doesn't exist! I'm trying to present other sides of the argument (that it may not) because nobody hears about them. The point of "fighting global activists tooth and nail" is that they want our money! I've blogged about what Britain is doing to curb "global warming" and I fear we are too close to reaching the same resolution in the United States...
and I also acknowledged IN THIS POST that Democrats are beginning to see nuclear power as a viable option to make the U.S. energy-independent.
I have not read the Pentagon report yet but fully intend to - you'll know when I've read it because I'll likely post a reaction.
thanks!
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