Global Warming=Crock of Shit

If there’s one thing I hate, it’s a global warming alarmist.
Concern for the planet’s ecosystem, especially global temperature change is part of the mark of a citizen who is in touch with the current issues facing us as human beings today. Developing an ulcer because you’re worried about the ice caps melting and flooding the world is just ludicrous.
For one thing, one of the more prevalent models of catastrophic climate change predicts that the melting of the ice caps due to global warming would trigger a back swing of global cooling. A second ice age would envelope the world and most plant and animal life would die.
So you can see that warming might be the least of our worries.
Another misconception is that all scientists everywhere are in agreement that global warming is an imminent threat. The truth is that many researchers continue to say that there is either not enough evidence or that the changes we see are merely the natural fluctuation of the earth’s temperature.
Lot’s of people will go straight to a meteorologist if they want to know about global warming, and any one of them who has studied climate change will tell you that the earth is indeed getting warmer, but that’s not the whole story.
Weather patterns are a tricky and fickle beasts. They can move and change, sometimes with barely a moment’s notice. For this reason, when reviewing global weather changes, we need to look at a more solid science, rock solid.
Any geologist will tell you that the earth is approximately 4 billion years old. If the earth were a football field, then human history would be a space the width of a hair on the goal line. For this reason, actual measurements of temperature change represent an insignificant portion of the whole story.
Geological study reveals that the earth is in constant transition. It periodically gets warmer and colder depending on a number of factors, including continental drift and reflective gasses in the atmosphere.
According to one theory, it was a worldwide climate change that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, and I’m fairly sure that none of them were burning fossil fuels.
I myself am not convinced that this ecological change is the fault of humankind. I believe that we have allowed our collective ego to convince us that we are more important than is actually true.
I am not suggesting that cutting greenhouse gas emmissions, decreasing power consumption, researching alternative fuel sources, or decreasing the excessive packaging on products, all ideas which have stemmed from the ecological movement (which itself seems to be driven by global warming extremists), are bad ideas.
These ideas are good in and of themselves, regardless of the temperature.
Decreased emmisions means clean air for you and your children, now and in the future. Emissions are directly linked to power consumption, the less power used, the less it is necesarry to generate, meaning that the power plant uses less fuel.
The fuel those plants are using is mostly fossil fuels and often that means oil. It is the dependency on foreign oil that has led to the war in Iraq for which taxpayers will be paying through the nose until God knows when.
Not only has our dependence on oil caused a war (or two), but it is an ever increasing component in the trade deficit which is one of the reasons why the American Dollar continues its fall in value (it is now trading at essentially equal value to the Canadian Dollar).
The solutions to these problems are not easy, and they cannot be taken care of by elected officials. In 1997 a meeting of world leaders saw the establishment of the Kyoto Protocols, a promise by many nations to reduce emmissions by the year 2012.
Unfortunately, the agreement has done nothing to curb the proliferation of greenhouse gas emmissions. As many as 36 of the 161 nations (including the United States) which signed on are not on track to meet there emissions goals.
So what is the next step? Set new goals, of course. But what’s to stop us from ignoring the new goals just like we did before? Absolutely nothing.
A popular definition of insanity is “doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result.” That’s what this policy is, insane.
A recent study showed that 2/3 of Americans “strongly believe” that “strong action” should be taken on the environmental “crisis”. I’d lay a wager that 90 percent of those people leave unused appliances plugged in, drive to work without trying to find a car pool or even consider riding a bus.
The point is that change doesn’t start from the top down. If we’re to have an environmental revolution then it has to come from you and me. We need to make a concerted effort to live cleaner and “greener” lives. Laws won’t help. Emmissions goals are pie in the sky wishes. And politicians promises to “fix” the environment are beaureaucratic double-talk.
It’s we, the people, who matter and we need to make the changes on our own. Not because the earth is warming and we could be extinct some day, not because that guy from Greenpeace is making us feel guilty, we need to change for the most personal of reasons, because it’s the right thing to do.