I don't personally care, but to be so certain that man-made climate change is a myth, based on what I'm gonna assume is a high-school level science education, when large numbers of scientists who have dedicated their life to the topic believe otherwise, simply because you're sure they're all trying to conspire against you... well that's some interesting hubris.
victor809 wrote:
Yeah.
And it is even grander hubris when you ignore that there are just as many (if not more) scientists that outright reject the notion of man-made cliemate change, or that any such climate change exists in the first place.
Just because they wear a lab coat, and have a few charts they can point at, doesn't mean that they are any better at predicting the future of Mankind then some scruffy robe-clad prophet coming out of a desert storm in the Middle East. Proof is in the pudding, Victor.
When one of those so-called scientists can show me how CO2 - which is heavier than the air around it - can make the trip MILES into the upper atmosphere while defying gravity, and an exponential loss of energy, to accumulate and create this "massive" greenhouse effect, then maybe I'll listen. So until they get GPS for molecules real soon, I'm gonna go with basic science and say that these scientific doom-and-gloomers are completely full of crap.
Now maybe you work in a field where you can say "it's possible," and that's proof enough for you. For many of us who actually have to show results...well...we have a bit of a higher standard.
I believe it's reasonably likely that the 7 billion of us generating pollutants, changing water-flow and generally deforesting large areas does have an impact on the climate (in some way shape or form). But I just don't care because, like I said, I don't care in the least bit about your children. I usually assume that most people who "don't believe" in our impact on the climate generally don't like their kids as much as they like convenience and are trying to rationalize the choice away. but I'm not judging.
victor809 wrote:
Funny.
Changing water flow? So...um...the Mississippi now drains into the Great Lakes? Or the course of the Nile has reversed? I'm a little confused where you get this whole "water flow" argument from.
Sea currents changing? Is that it? Well, I hate to point this out to you, but sea currents change ALL OF THE TIME. They did so before man became a factor in the climate (if they really are), and will continue to do so for some time to come.
The Jet Stream? Yeah, that changes all of the time too. That's why they call the earth's environment "dynamic." It changes, fluctuates, oscillates, and so on.
The reality is that the biggest driver of that environment is the one thing we can't change, and that is the Sun. Or maybe you're gonna blame that on an expansion of the human population as well? The reality is that some of the best data as it relates to "climate change" has more to do with the output of the Sun than anything Man has ever produced.
Someone did a calculation some time back, and pointed out that the seven-some billion people on the earth could easily fit into an area the size of Texas, with their own home, and a reasonably-sized yard.
As an FYI - the US is one of the few nations in the world who actually re-forests anything they farm. Plus, there is little if any hard evidence that proves that trees are better O2 exchangers than most plant material. From what I read, algae is better than all of them combined.
There is a certain amount of irony to your "well reasoned" and "well researched" nonsense, especially as it comes to climate change, and sea levels. You get these pseudo-scientists to run around screaming at the top of their lungs about how sea levels are going to change dramatically, and flooding large portions of the world.
Yet these same people sneer at the Bible and the story of Noah for basically telling the same tale.
Is seems, Victor, that for all your talk about lacking the belief in a religion or God, you're just simply blindly following one type of faith, as opposed to another. Except this one doesn't place any demands on your character, it just simply asks you to fart less...
Yeah. That's a winner in my book.
