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« Thread Started on Aug 6, 2008, 12:06am » | |
"There are ominous signs that the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production - with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth. The drop in food production could begin quite soon... The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologist are hard-pressed to keep up with it."
"In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish."
"If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 20 years, but eleven degrees colder 10 years after that...This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age."
Sounds scary. Too bad those predictions are from 1970 and 1975, respectively. Back then talking about an incoming ice age was all the rage and although a lot of those theories turned out to be completely wrong, the environmental hysteria continues today in the form of global warming. But is it the same catastrophe from back then? Is it a different catastrophe? Or is it the same catastrophe only this time it's really a catastrophe whereas 35 years ago it really wasn't that bad even though at the time they said it was?. . . It can get confusing, but the one thing I'm sure of is that there's some bullnuts here.
I'm not going to flat out say that global warming is a hoax or that it's not happening at all (although some scientists say exactly that). I can't bring myself to say that because i just don't know. I've looked at most of the facts and for every piece of evidence that disproves aspects global warming, there are also other pieces of evidence that suggest it' really happening.
Now, when i look at Al Gore and hear what he has to say, honestly, to me he sounds like a lying sack of nuts whose mansion consumes more energy in one month than the average American household in an entire year. That's what he sounds like to me a lot of times, but that's only a feeling and obviously i can't just make my mind up based on a feeling. There's a line between between being an environmentalist wacko and being reasonably concerned about the environment. And he, along with many others, crosses that boundary from time to time.
However, i can say that if an inevitable major climate change is coming, and the planet really is in jeopardy, we are not going to save it by driving slower/smaller cars and by buying carbon credits. That's clearly bullnuts. Why can't we keep looking at the evidence until we have a better understanding of what's really going on with the environment and not scare people into changing they way of life over something that might not even be that serious?
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