I am not looking for a reason to blame anyone. I am simply suggesting what this guy and lots of other people have said- that whatever we do to pump CO2 into the atmosphere is inconsequential compared to the natural forces that have caused changes to the Earth's temperature for billions of years.
As for pollution, spewing particulate matter and poison gases into the atmosphere is bad- not really that bad for the planet, but bad for humans and other animals with lungs. Forget about CO2, that's not the problem. Controlling ash, cyanide and other industrial pollutants (including from automobiles) is what we should be targeting. We are certainly not "killing the planet". The very notion that we could kill the planet is absurd on its face. Pollution (not CO2, mind you, REAL pollution) makes the planet slightly less hospitable to humans in the short run, but even that is a localized effect. All the alarmist talk about global warming has people actually believing that, barring some radical change in technology, we are going to melt the planet in the next ten or twenty years. The whole notion is alarmist, irrational, and just plain wrong. If you want to be really cynical about it, you could argue that the UN debate on global warming comes from a policy desire by a bunch of UN flunkies to shift industrial production out of the developed world into the developing world, where countries have more leeway to spew pollution into the atmosphere. On Jan 3, 2008 12:39 PM, Scott S wrote: > Let's go back to the base issue...pollution. > I think every scientist on the planet would agree that we're dumping way > too > much un-natural crap into the atmosphere, water, land, etc. > > Shouldn't that be enough to demand the same types of regulations that the > global warming debate would demand. > > You're looking for a reason to point a finger at "liberals", when you > should > be looking for solutions to the more obvious problem. > > We're killing our planet, put whatever name you want on it, but we're > killing it and we need to stop. > > -- > Scott Stewart > ColdFusion Developer > > SSTWebworks > 4405 Oakshyre Way > Raleigh, NC. 27616 > (919) 874-6229 (home) > (703) 220-2835 (cell) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Munn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 3:25 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: climate change debunking article of the week > > Russian scientist says CO2 an effect and not a cause of global warming, > Earth due for a cold spell: > > http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20080103/94768732.html > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:249636 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
