Climate Change

What a bunch of crap..........nothing you or I will do is going to change the progression of climate change one way or another.

It will happen in it's on time according to the laws of physics. The undenialbe truth......................this planet will ultimately die and become just so much cosmic dust! No one on the globe today will see it happen nor will the milleniums of people to follow us.

Cautious conservency is a good idea and should be practiced but at the end of the day it's like spitting in the ocean and expecting to see the ocean rise.

Life is better spent enjoying what we have rather than worrying about something we can never control.

There is nothing so shameful as those who deny the atrocities they commit. The oceans are dying, the ecosystems are dying, the species are dying, and it is in large part attributable to the Industrial Revolution including the wasteful consumption of over a quarter of the earth's resources by barely 4.4% of its population (that would be the USA for the informationally challenged).

Your response to our species' responsibility for the damage to this planet's climate is what is crap, and I find it sad that so-called educated people can still deny the blatant evidence and the incontrovertible science. The highest levels of carbon dioxide that have ever occurred in the history of the planet have recently been recorded.

"Enjoy what we have" and "don't worry about what we can't control" you say. A typical "me-first" science-denying response. It appears you don't want to change your over-consumptive planet-destroying lifestyle because you'd rather avoid the guilt and the inconvenience of having a personal role in its destruction. But see, we CAN control it by changing lifestyles and by not destroying the forests and the oceans and the rivers and the lakes just so that you can enjoy the "conveniences" of unfettered capitalist exploitation of Earth's finite resources.

A recent example that we CAN reverse the harm is that the ozone hole in the atmosphere above Antarctica appears to be on the mend because we changed our harmful ways and stopped using the harmful substances that had been found to erode it.

You like patterns because they give simple explanations for simple minds unable or unwilling to assimilate or accept complex concepts. Nevertheless, even what appear to be simple straight-forward patterns turn out to be no such thing when a larger view is taken.

For folks more open-minded with their thinking, ready to accept new information that may change their view of the world I hope they'll take a few moments to read the science that says deniers like you are simply wrong.

Global Warming
(the section on Natural Cycles may be particularly illuminating for the discussion at hand)

The point I was making was that Greenpeace is noted for their blatant cherry-picking of facts to support their pre-determined conclusions and that anyone who quotes them for an objective evaluation of issues is misguided.

It seems to me that most people agree that there is climate change. What is in dispute is the degree to which man made emissions are responsible. I'm no scientist; but it appears to me that both sides have large bodies of evidence to support their views. I'm left with the feeling that the issue won't be resolved easily or any time soon. ....JB

No, both sides do not have large bodies of evidence to support their views. The jury is no longer out. The overwhelming evidence is agreed on by the overwhelming majority of scientists. I've posted the evidence before, including NASA's excellent website with worldwide science committees as approving sources. But apparently overwhelming evidence still isn't enough for a certain group of folks intent on avoiding at any cost the cognitive dissonance associated with their having to admit their own lifestyle is part of the problem.

So here is another non-NASA source with references and cumulative irrefutable studies on every aspect of the related science. Pick a section that interests you or read the entire thing. The evidence is definitive. There is no longer a credible scientific debate on the matter. There is now consensus.

Global Warming