Very well said. Humans being the cause of Global warming is crap, but some very good things have come from that lie. There are actually projections that think that the cooling cycle may already be starting. Iceland and some parts of Canada reported record low's this year. The ice burgs in Antarctica are growing, not melting.super_smash_jesus said:I agree mostly with your statements. The earth is on a cycle, and the earth is technically "rebounding" from the last ice age around 12,000 years ago. It was cold, it gets warmer, thats how she rolls. However, it is hard to dismiss Carbon dioxide as a culprit of warming entirely, as it is adding to the extra heat, but not significantly. The decomposition of organic matter adds more CO2 to the atmosphere than all the cars on the planet running at the same time, so obviously the anthropogenic effects are minimal at best.
There is always something that generates a lot of interest in the world, right now it happens to be climate change. But most people that go "green" don't know the basics behind it to begin with. Methane is a higher cause of greenhouse gasses, just not in the abundance of CO2, yet it does more damage. Want to get rid of methane, then you will have to kill off half of the planets population, because it is emitted from our main food sources, rice, sheep, and cattle.
While I don't think global warming is the problem most people have made it out to be, I feel there are still good things coming from it. With emissions being monitored, there is less pollutants contaminating water or habitats that could destroy a species viability, so if that is the result of people over-emphasizing global warming, I can live with it.
Do any of you remember the Ozone layer hoax. The government was yelling, "there's a hole in the ozone, we have to act". What they didn't tell you was that the hole in the ozone over the poles has ALWAYS been there, we just discovered it and assumed it was a problem. The refraction of light (you need UV light to make ozone) over the poles does not allow for ozone to be produced there. When was the last time you heard them bitchin' about the hole? They stopped because they found a better hoax to lull people into fear.