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And yet, since these people generally say, "If we don't do A, then B will happen," and we usually end up doing "A" (improving our treatment of the planet in one way or another) there's no way to test if the predictions would've come true or not.
Personally, I'd rather breath clean air and drink water that doesn't adversely affect my health. They're worth more to me than a big truck or a McMansion.
Jobs outsourced
GM plants built in China
Highest national debt ever
Never-ending war
Inflation
More people tomorrow than exist today
Alarmists?
Back in the late 1700's there was a philosopher/economist type by the name of Malthuas. He was the first 'modern' prophet of doom. He predicted that man would out-consume resources, starvation ,dieseas, would kick in and remove over 90% of the population by the early 1800's.
Nothing has changed when it comes to the doom and gloom.
Proof:
-Satellite readings show no increase in atmospheric tempretures.
-NASA admits "mistake" with temp readings, and the 1990s were NOT the hottest decade in century, remains the 1930s.
-Ice corp samples show that elevated CO2 takes place on average 800 years AFTER temp increase, CO2 does NOT cause globalwarming.
-more recent, group is checking ground temp stations and finding over 1/3 in violation of standards giving increased temp readings. As example, all are suppose to be in open, not near man made objects that could artificially increase temp readings. One located on black-top asphalt, one near a heating duct, etc. 1/3 fail standards.
-Leipzig letter of 85 leading climatologists condemn hysteria of Globalwarming.
Truth is there!
But if you are talking about "saddam hussein has WMD's and is harboring terrorists" then I agree, we should ignore alarmists.
Talk about preaching to the choir.
I instead of forming your opinions on the subject of global warming from right-wing "alarmists," you instead read what ever major professional scientific organization in the world is saying on the subject?
Global warming is real, it's significant, and it's the result of human activity.
Huck and Williams can stick their heads in the sand all they want, but it won't change the reality of climate change.
Has anyone (besides the pres) ever been more wrong than Mr. Huck? The guy misses every point possible.
As for the polar bear, what happened to it when the climate was much warmer than it is right now? Somehow, someway it survived. That's why it is a successful animal, according to evolutionists--it has the ability to adapt to its environment, as do many other animals.
This doesn't mean that we run rough-shod over the environment. It just means that successful animals have been adapting to climate-change for thousands of years.
Why does it seem the anti-global warming acolytes always seem to attack the messengers. They never address the message. What is the message? That our planet is dirty, we are making it dirtier, and there are harmful consequences, so we need to change things.
The problem is, people like this letter writer are lazy. They don't want to change their lifestyle. So what do they do? They write off environmentalism as a left-wing wacko conspiracy, so they don't feel bad when they drive their 2 children a quarter mile to church in their 8-passenger SUVs. That'll show Al Gore who's boss!
Listen people, someone please explain to me: how can cleaning up our planet ever be considered a bad thing? Why would someone not want to improve their quality of life? If the dire consequences of global warming never come, great! We still have a beautiful, clean planet.
I understand there are extremists, but don't let them turn you into cynical, unthinking do-nothings. There is much to be done, and we will ALL benefit from it.
There are studies out there that say that the current global warming is caused by the sun, and others say that we are within the normal variations of temperature.
Also, when reading some of the papers that support manmade global warming, I have found some of the assumptions questionable.
So, what I am trying to say is that yes, read the studies, but what is very important is to THINK about their assumptions and conclusions.
So, what you are saying is that intelligent people have opinions on both sides of this issue, but that "Choirs" is wrong. So, the intelligent people that are correct believe in the same thing you do? You dismiss the others because you don't agree with them? That makes sense.
Answer:
That's the mainstream media's whole shtick... to publicise whatever the latest story is that might alarm their viewers (not just the lates predictions of global destruction, but WHATEVER might get us alarmed). Notice they feature the most alarming story in every tease/advertisement to get you to watch the news tonight.
I don't blame them. Who would make it a point to tune in for a story about "More flowers blooming this year" or "New studies indicate that kittens are cuddly"? It's just their business to alarm us and make us wonder if WE are in danger.
Now in Africa and India and China, they are taking advantage of new technology and putting together fully self-reliant housing including WiFi, skipping all that expensive infrastructure we had to pay for. Global warming, rising oceans, what a farce. Worry about something real. The goblins will git ya, if ya don't watch out.
What I was trying to encourage is for people to not just read and regurgitate what somebody else says, but to think about the assumptions that the scientists make and their conclusions.
This sounds humorous today. I�m glad we didn�t follow these quitters advice then. Image the inversion layer if cars used the technologies of the sixties today. Think of the children who would be suffering from lung disease.
Imagine if we had listened to these defeatists then? We breathe the fruit of those that believed Americans would step up using technology and solve the problem of smog.
Cars run better, the use less fuel and they last longer too.
Nothing is accomplished by regurgitating the opinions of conservative, or for that matter, liberal writers pushing an agenda. There is much confusion because of the semantics used by various writers and speakers on the issue. The central question, nonetheless, is: Are humans contributing to the factors that are responsible for climate change and to what level are they responsible for increasing these pollutants?
The next question is: What is the agenda of those who decry global climate change as a fraud? Also, a fair question to ask is the opposite: Is there an agenda beyond the effects of global climate change on the common good that the pro-warming crowd is advocating?
One obvious advantage the pro-warming group expects to take away from their position is the increase in technology opportunities designed to reduce pollution.
In any case, if I read your post correctly you are confusing issues. There are clearly two issues at play here. The first is that of smart policies. The second is that of the hysteria and marxism surrounding GW.
Having a good policies is just smart. The problem is that so many of the environmental movement people are not about cleaning the world up. They are about control and power. They are more in the real of anti-commercialism and anti-technology. Not all but so many of them.
The simplest test is right here on the Deseret News. When the Dnews prints a story about incredible technology that will save energy, such as fibers that can be woven into every day fabric. These fibers generate electricity as they move. So this sweater, shirt, pants, etc can generate enough electricity by human movement to recharge a cell phone.
When stories like this are printed on the Dnews you NEVER see environmentalists talking about how wonderful it is. That is because they aren't after smart energy. Sadly they are mostly anti-commercialism.
There are more examples of things I was told to be alarmed about than I can cover in 200 words. Some that ocme to mind are:
-Population explosion (baby boom)
-Nuclear powerplants
-Comunists
-Neocons
-Ozone
-Co2
-ElNinyo
-LaNinya
-Ice Age
-Global Warming
-Global climate change
-Every diet I've ever heard of has been both in and out of vogue.
-Every exercise plan that is touted as good today will be harmfull tomorrow.
They're all just fads. When one goes away there will be another to take it's place.
That doesn't mean you should ignore them. Just do what you can but don't be suprised if later it turns out they were bogus alarms.
but the liberal-minded Americans are going about the business of correcting the problems.
Vote Republican - no matter what
Well, that's a logic one for you. Dr Teacher, I am writing you regarding my final exam. Actually, I was right on the test, I was just wrong on the timeline.
Well, maybe.
The point being, this chicken little routine has been going on as long America has been around.
And Malthus was NOT right. He was not right back then, and he is not right now. We are not running out of resources. Peak oil is not for real as we have more oil reserves identified now than at any time. Read, the new oil fields off of Brazil that rival the middle-east.
You want to talk food shortages as evidence of Malthus? Actually, evidence of extreme, chicken little environmentalism. primary cause of food shortages has been US Federal mandates for ethanol, followed up by socialist subsidies to encourage farmers to convent corn from food and animal feed into junk fuel products. Environmentalists lead the charge to ram that one down the throats of America, and due to the size of our economy the world gets to help pay for it.
Fact is, structured economics has always lead to suffering.
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