TG:
On this issue we disagree. For this is not about percentages. It is about cause and effect. For example CO2 levels are at 401 PPM, the highest level ever recorded. This information comes from NOAA. The effect of higher CO2 is Global Warming. There are many other facts that can be looked up that support the idea that we proactivly need to repair our environment the best we can. To mention a few other important facts polar ice cap melt, rainforest deforestation, and ozone layer depletion are also serious environmental issues that need to be addressed. Again these are not issues about percentages they are about cause and effect.
I think the scientific research overwhelmingly shows that we need to proactivly need to make changes to reverse these facts.
gryphonms wrote:
Don't settle for half the facts.
First, define the problem.
then determine the causes and their respective influence.
If burning fossil fuels accounted for only 5% of the higher CO2 levels, then even if we cut our burning by half, it would only impact the problem 2.5%.
So is the problem that we're burning fuels, or that we're eliminating natures means to clean the air, or that we simply exist and our urban sprawl is generating and reflecting heat?
Or did we alter the temperatures of our oceans and lakes and streams by dumping chemicals that kill the plant life?
Or could our light pollution have an effect on normal night time cool down?
Or, well you get the gist.
Half truths are no better than lies.
Did you fall for this crap in the 1970's when the earth was heading towards a new Ice Age?
Or a decade ago when Algore's hockey stick promised mercury rising?
Does it now simply "feel better" because it's just called "change"? So when the records show that May was a cold month it's OK?
