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Re: The Great Global Warming Swindle
Yes - the earth has cycles of cold/warm but the current change is spiking due to human activity, it's not occuring over time like the others have...and I totally agree w/ your second point - the back and forth is secondary to the fact that cancer rates are way up, kids are getting autism at astounding rates and americans are grossly overweight...we are junking up our earth and our health!
I once heard a native american say how she's not worried about the planet - the planet will be fine - it's the people who have to worry - for a while i didn't totally get what she meant - then the other day after I saw a discovery channel on the pre-dinosaur eras (w/ my daughter of course) i "got it" - the huge changes between toxic (for us) levels of co2 and eras of too much o2 (for us) have existed and the earth will adapt - it is just a question of whether we can adapt or survive it really...enter the thunderdome...
Texas Proud said:First... let me say that global warming is occuring.. the question is how much is related to MAN...
If there was no global warming, Detroit would be next to a glacier.. a BIG one.. the Great Lakes were formed by glaciers.. they covered most of North America way back when... and they melted without any help for man...
The Earth has had many cycles of cold and warm... and it changes over many thousands of years.. man's contributions have only been about 100 or so... a very small timeframe to say we are causing some great catastrophy....
That being said... I do wish they would pass laws to prevent the amount of pollution we are putting in the air... the REAL problem is the health effects on the human race with all the crap... I can remember when I lived in London blowing my nose and having black soot all the time... the diesels spewed out so much you could not help but breath it in... so I don't much believe in the global warming as the models they use are crap (by their own admission).. but the dirty air can be SEEN...
Yes - the earth has cycles of cold/warm but the current change is spiking due to human activity, it's not occuring over time like the others have...and I totally agree w/ your second point - the back and forth is secondary to the fact that cancer rates are way up, kids are getting autism at astounding rates and americans are grossly overweight...we are junking up our earth and our health!
I once heard a native american say how she's not worried about the planet - the planet will be fine - it's the people who have to worry - for a while i didn't totally get what she meant - then the other day after I saw a discovery channel on the pre-dinosaur eras (w/ my daughter of course) i "got it" - the huge changes between toxic (for us) levels of co2 and eras of too much o2 (for us) have existed and the earth will adapt - it is just a question of whether we can adapt or survive it really...enter the thunderdome...