Global Warming – The Fear Mongering.
by jandrews on Dec.03, 2009, under General Discussion, Japan
For the last 15 years it has been the big todo from environmentalists that the earth is warming and we the human race are the cause. I’m not here to argue that the human race isn’t contributing to any warming of the earth that is happening. It would be stupid to assume that we weren’t contributing to any climate change, cause we are.
The earth’s ecosystem is a complex beast. No one on the planet fully understands it. Sure we can predict the weather, and based on conditions we can assume that there may be a hurricane forming, or tornados may touch down and cause havoc, but in reality our understanding is minimal. Over the past 4.54 billion years the earth has been around, it has gone though many natuarlly occuring changes. Just as we age and evolve, the earth too ages and evolves. Going through seasons year after year, the glacial ages, and temperate ages. The earth’s ecosystem is not designed to stay at one extreme or the other, and takes thousands of years to swap from one extreme to the other. The last glacial period ended roughly 10,000 years ago, and it is theorized that that they run on 40,000 and 100,000 year cycles. It’s not a stretch to believe that this global warming is mostly naturally occuring and that eventually we will have another ice age that flips it 180.
What gets to me is all the fear mongering over global warming. OMGOMGOMG we have to do something! Do we? Sure, I think we do, but not because of global warming. We cause a lot of polution. The acid rain falling from the sky. The large amounts of plastic in the pacific ocean. The smut and smog that cause severe breathing problems within our population. All these things destroy the environment, and are honestly things we should fix. We should burn less oil, we should find renewable energy sources, but not because of global warming. Stop listening to the fear mongering, stop blaming the freak 65F degree day in Boston on global warming. Stop polluting for the sake of saving our environment for our children today and for their future children. Lead the way so that they can live in a better world than we do.
