I talk to many people about this modern day concern of Global Warming and I find it interesting that few people are buying into it. Yesterday (Nov. 30 '07) I heard a long range forecast for our area. This winter will be the coldest in 15 years. It is now Dec 1 and we are having our second snowfall of the winter, already! The Global Warming enthusiasts would say that this is 'climate change', which is the buzz word for Global Warming because Global Warming does not always describe the situation accurately.
I can buy into this, as there is some evidence that the weather is changing, but on the other hand, has it not always 'changed'? From the beginning of this controversy, I have read and researched a fair amount and have found it interesting that there is an abundance of information and facts on both sides of the issue.
I will attempt to clarify the issue with one single question.
Al Gore, in his movie "An Inconvenient Truth" has bent the truth considerably on several issues and as result the British school system has required that teachers who show this movie in class are required to read a disclaimer that states the 'facts' are misleading in eleven areas. One of these areas is the issue of carbon dioxide levels and their effect on Global Warming. He states that man made levels of CO2, which have risen during the industrial revolution and particularly now while we are so dependent on fossil fuels for our energy, have accumulated and resulted in the warming of the earth. Scientific models have shown the exact opposite has happened. The Earth warms up and then the CO2 levels increase. In the geologic record, this is always the case and there is always a time lag of 40 to 80 years.
So, here is the question. Which came first, the CO2 or the warming? If the warming came first, man did not cause it with C02 and therefore will not cure it by attempting to reduce CO2. If the CO2 came first, then possibly it is our doing and possibly we can undo it.
Until this question is answered, it is senseless to spend billions of dollars and upset national and personal economies to make a futile attempt to change the weather.
2 comments:
We were taught in school that plants thrive on CO2...human breathes in oxygen and breathe out CO2, plant breathes in CO2 and breathes out oxygen. No? I think that's the way God arranged it. So then, isn't CO2 a good thing? I read somewhere that our oceans actually make far more CO2 than people do (and always have).
I think you are right though, that the weather has always been changing, like in the medieval period (didn't they once grow grapes for wine in England but I heard that now it's not hot enough? but then what do I know about England?). And you know, just a few years ago I remember they were all predicting that we were going to have another 'ice age'...whoever "they" are.
Anyways, people certainly are getting all worked up into a big panic trying to save the earth, but I think they are forgetting (or maybe just not acknowledging) that God made this earth and everything in it and has everything under control. But if I believed I just evolved from some big bang blob, I guess my 'survival of the fittest' instinct might be pretty high too.
I like what you said Carla.
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