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What catastrophic climate change? You've been paying too much attention to the MEDIA and not to scientists and all of their "we think" and "might" and "maybe." We can't predict the weather a week from now and you think humans are going to die and the world is going to blow up because the CO2 has risen? I'd have to assume you've spent all of a half-second actually thinking about all of this.
Twelve thousand years ago, the very spot on which I am sitting right now was under a mile of solid ice. Tampa, Florida was sixty miles from salt water. Japan would have been called the Kamchatka Peninsula on maps if there had been any then. It may have been joined to the mainland at the south, too.
Yes, the Earth is always changing and now, for some egotistical reason, we think it should remain as it is now. We can't believe it's actually going to change! We MUST be the reason, right?
Actually, if you think about it, this isn't mere lunacy. For the last few decades we've been raised to not think about issues that should concern us. We turn on the television or read a blog and immediately assume the roll of "Catcher of Wisdom" coming from others who have no idea what they're talking about OR they're making a few bucks.
If every human on Earth was struck down stone-cold dead at this very moment, the Earth's climate would be different in a thousand years. It has been happening continuously for about five billion years. It's not going to stop because humans release less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
There is nothing wrong with being green. I just wish a few more people would actually THINK about issues before they make themselves look like they don't think about anything at all.
Thanks for your time.
This may sound strange but there's absolutely no proof that God doesn't exist. Some ask for concrete proof he does and some, WHO THINK about it, ask for any sort of proof at all that he doesn't. *grin*
And yes, I'm a true agnostic. I may not actually believe in religion, etc. but I also know no one has any evidence it isn't out there.
The progressive people spend all their time complaining about the conservatives who believe in God and who do not think logically. They do this while thinking the climate should remain as it is and that modern conservatives are the cause of the change even though, as I said earlier, the change is constant and has been for the entire history of the planet.
What happened to Kyoto, anyway? What, exactly, did that do? Did it make any difference at all? Well, no, it didn't. Of course it didn't.
You read about the IPCC being a "scientific body." I didn't know economists were scientists. You know it's all about money, right? Spend some time thinking about it and you'll see why Rajendra K. Pachauri is the head of the IPCC. Even his Wikipedia page can't offer links to his being a scientist even though it says he is. His Doctorate is in economics.
The sooner we realize that cutting down on CO2 emissions, while definitely a good idea, isn't going to stop climate change (I mean, that's ludicrous if you've actually thought about it.) the sooner we can all get back to the business of not living in fear of something we don't know anything about.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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