07-03-2008, 03:16 PM
providencecrow Wrote:theterribletwist Wrote:I'm glad to see that not everyone buys into the man-made global warming hype. I thought nearly everyone was falling for that prank these days. Since the dawn of mankind, the best way to control a population is through fear. And the most effective type of fear you can instill on people is the kind where the source of the fear can't be truly proven one way or the other.
I guess i just don't get the hype because i'm able to connect the dots. We have known for quite a while that the earth cyclically warms and cools like has been said many times, and the last major weather change was an ice age. I can connect the dots that thousands of years later the earth would start to warm.
when i see any sort of calculation that can show how much of an impact we have, then we have a different discussion on hand
Exactly, the earth will warm, and then it will cool itself down via another ICE AGE.
It's that simple.
An ice age means a period where ice sheets are in the northern and southern hemispheres; by this definition we are still in an ice age (because the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets still exist). But when we talk about them it is used to refer to colder periods with extensive ice sheets over the US and Europe: in this sense, the most recent ice age ended about 11,000 years ago.
Did you know that if we didn't have the greenhouse effect the earths average temp. currenly 57 degrees F, would be a rigid -2 degrees F. ?
Crazy
It's a delicate balance, and I'm interested to see how this all pans out. This planet is certainly interesting.