I wish I had the time right now to really say what I want to say about global warming, but I don't. So I'll keep this to just one chapter.
We as humans are not able to affect nature over the long haul. I don't care how we raze the land today, nature takes over. Look over any old abandoned farm, or Mt. St. Helens even, or old abandoned mines, mills even empty lots in the middle of the city. Nature soon takes over. That being said, yes we can affect things in a unique way in an instant situation.
Our planet is alive. Apparently we live on moving tectonic plates, that once had us joined at the hip with Europe or Asia... not sure I remember which now.. Asia I think... Wow... and we used to be covered with ice. Hello? What happened to it all? We still have a glacier remnant on Mauna Kea... in Hawaii? Yes. Does this not speak of change?
Environmentalism, like someone said, can be likened to a religion. It can be likened in fact to fundamentalism no different than Radical Muslim Fundamentalism. Environmentalist champion the unchampionable. Everything is in crisis, a crisis we will not see in our lifetime, so we don't know if they are right or wrong. Their argument is, "but what if we're right?" If their right it was going to happen anyway.
Warming intensifies here on earth in relation to sunspot activity, something we've just gone through or maybe are still going through. Volcanoes. There is an active volcano under antartica spewing out 500 degree plumes of superheated water. So hot in fact that it melted the protective coatings on the undersea devices that they had taking pictures, temps, and samples. There are undersea volcanoes all over the world. We have them off of the Big Island. We have them all over the Pacific. We have active volcanoes all over the world and this adds to the heat.
Global temperatures are taken around major cities. I would be more interested in the upper atmospheric temperatures around the world over the last 20 years instead. That is free air temperature that I think would be relatively undisturbed. Have we ever wondered why the temperatures around the US can be on any given day, 50 degrees apart in the winter, and 10 degrees apart in spring, and 50 degrees apart in summer? I wonder about it all the time.. and though I've been given the theory of air masses and circulation and such, I find it facinating that we can have so much individual change all over the country almost every day.
Oh.. yes we are warming.. do I care... no. There is nothing we can do about it, besides, were gonna be hit by a meteor before the floods come anyway.
Aloha..
