Jan 31 2009
Thoughts on Global Warming
I am still unsure whether global warming is actually happening.
Many articles are in my opinion jumping onto bandwagons; it is an easy way to sell books, papers, magazines or the latest documentary. Any scientists I have read on the subject use words that do not tie them down to an actual statement, no one says global warming is happening, if we don’t stop this then this will happen. It is all terms like indicates, could lead up to, may end in. Why can we just not be told the facts and make up our own mind?
My thoughts concerning whether Global Warming is real or not falls into the camp where I believe that the natural world is bigger than us and whatever we as a species might do, it as a natural continually evolving organism will come up with something to counter act it. The Earth has been around for a few million years and the Human part of the Natural world only a few thousand. The records used to calculate how we as a species are affecting what is happening on the earth are not more than a few hundred years old. So how can we decide from such a small segment of world’s history what is going to happen within the environment?
Are we not getting just a little too big for our boots here? What if the ice caps are getting smaller, why do we think we are the cause of this and it not just being a natural occurrence every 10,000 years?
The Earth has gotten one degree warmer, how do we know that it shouldn’t be getting one degree warmer as part of a natural cycle? I would assume that during its formation those few million years ago it was pretty warm then, with molten lava running in rivers on the Earth’s surface and hot jets of poisonous gases exploding from the Earth’s core.
It has been widely broadcast this weekend that this is going to be the coldest winter for 13 years, and still some publications are trying to tie it into Global Warming. 30 or 40 years ago when I was younger before we had Global Warming to blame every problem on a cold winter was widely trumpeted as heralding the approach of a new ice age.
Is the problem a figment of our imaginations? Do we really know what is going to happen down the line if we don’t change how we live? If the world starts to get colder and the ice caps begin to grow again will we find something else to worry about?
