So to start this off, this entry is about global warming, and how it is utter alarmist media bullshit.
Before you start turning away because you believe in global warming, ask yourself this, "Why do you believe in global warming?", "What proof can you cite?"
Here is a link to possibly the best compilation of facts refuting global warming (http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/dec2006/gwspin.pdf). In an effort to entice you to read that, I will now list some counter-evidence to global warming alarmist claims.
I'd like to start off with the most ridiculous one I've heard of:
Argument: POLAR BEARS IN THE ARCTIC ARE SAD AND DYING -- PROOF OF GLOBAL WARMING
Wrong: "Let me repeat what biologist Dr. Mitchell Taylor from the Arctic government of Nunavut, a territory of Canada, said recently: “Of the 13 populations of polar bears in Canada, 11 are stable or increasing in number. They are not going extinct, or even appear to be affected at present.”"
Argument: Antarctica is simultaneously warming and losing ice, proof of global warming affecting the Antarctic.
Wrong: "But both the journals Science and Nature have published studies recently finding – on balance – Antarctica is both cooling and gaining ice."
Argument: The use of fuel that creates carbon dioxide (a green house gas) is one of the main driving forces of global warming!
Wrong: Carbon Dioxide has not shown to have any direct correlating effect on global temperature. Remember that thing called the Industrial Revolution? Remember the sudden spike in coal use and subsequent CO2 release? Oh, then you also remember how the world did not become warmer during or after the Industrial Revolution.
There are many more examples in the .pdf I have linked to, however here is the coup de grace of the global warming situation:
"At the turn of the 20th century, the media peddled an upcoming ice age -- and they said the world was coming to an end. Then in the 1930s, the alarm was raised about disaster from global warming -- and they said the world was coming to an end. Then in the 70’s, an alarm for another ice age was raised -- and they said the world was coming to an end. And now, today we are back to fears of catastrophic global warming -- and again they are saying the world is coming to an end. "
Now don't take this to the extreme and assume that I think the efforts to reduce pollution are crap too, because I don't. Infact, I believe reducing pollution is one of the most important things we should do, but at the present, there seems to be conflicting information regarding that as well. I am all about realistically stopping DAMAGING things we do, but please if those happen to fall in the same category as "global warming" then lets stop the bullshit, and just call it cleaning up pollution.
If you want to rally behind something that really does affect us, go look up Global Dimming. Research it for yourself, find the facts, talk to me, do what you can to educate yourselves. Because the real blights of this world are going unaddressed.
Use your reasoning and question people, stop being sheep for no good reason.
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At this point in my life, I neither "believe" nor "disbelieve" in global warming. Wherever there are people who cry that the world is ending, there are other people who say that believers in global warming are certifiably insane.
Because my parents do what they do, environmentalism is not valued in my household. I didn't start recycling until I came to IMSA--mainly because there are people here who will beat you with sticks if you don't. I take long showers. I leave my lights on sometimes.
I don't listen to the media about anything, as a general rule. And I especially will not believe "An Inconvenient Truth." I believe about 90% of what Al Gore says to be twisted or fabricated, mainly because he is, in my opinion, an enormous hypocrite. (And a Democrat to boot!)
(Just FYI, I don't *actually* have anything against Democrats. I just disagree with their political views.)
Well personally I don't believe there is even an option to "believe" in or "not believe in" global warming. It is not a subjective field, there is an objective answer and that is, it does not exist.
However, yeah, recycling is also largely bullshit, minus metal, metal is extremely efficient in recycling. I also don't even want to get started on the recycling topic.
Finally, the word verification for this post is absolutely ridiculous, I can barely make it out.
to Katie and Ralph--
I agree, to a point. I absolutly agree that the media, and al gore (though not because he is a democrat but rather a politician in general) make a big deal out of things that are not such a big deal. Global warming exists, and always has, but not at any alarming rate. we had an ice age. now we don't. of course the globe is warming. its not rocket science people, chill out. the human contribution to this is minimal, and even if it was, lets say, significant, we cant undo the did.
we have bigger problems. our world is nuclear unstable. we are running out of oil. our country's economy is in the shit whole. our education system sucks. and a million other things that are far more sever than 'global warming'.
so, i would like to conclude with an invitation for both of you, though neither are juniors, to the synergy session on tuesday. im not on synergy, but i think i am going to the global warming session, and i would love to hear your thoughts on it in more detail.
kevin
wow--
some errors i cant live with:
1) whole instead of hole, that was dumb.
2) at a nuclear instability
on another note, i sometime feel that people should be able to yank other students right to go to imsa when they do stupid shit. yesterday i saw someone flying a kite in the lightning and i wanted to say go home.
Senator James Inhofe, the author of that report, is from Oklahoma, a state with many oil interests.
I call bias.
Oh because the media isn't biased at all, or the fact that one of the most aclaimed global warming extremists *James Hansen* and the quarter million dollar *grant* from the Heinz Foundation which is known as a left-wing organization, that originated from the Heinz (ketchup) family?
Also, you simply called bias, and have not offered any explanation especially the fact that the most affected of all industries would be coal, NOT oil.
Saying stuff like that dave, will simply leave your argument to the dogs because it is unfounded and absolutely unsupported. Fuck the science right? Go with the bias!
...no
To Kevin
I think we both know there is a difference between what global warming is claimed to be, and what is natural climate change. So I can't agree that global warming exists, however we are experiencing normal climate change.
Also, I agree that we do have more important problems, that is exactly why I suggested that people really feel they need something to get behind, look at Global Dimming, a phenomenon not many people know about.
Also, if I were to attend a Synergy session, I would definitely have to bring proof and a bottle of liquor to withstand the barrage of uncanny argument styles.
Kevin:
I'm sorry, but that comment about flying a kite in the lightning just definitely made me laugh out loud.
A lot of times, you'll find that intelligence and common sense do not go hand-in-hand.
Fair enough; you called my intellectually lazy argument.
It would be wonderful to think that global warming wasn't a problem. I'll definetely poke around the report.
I was reading an excerpt from Fareed Zakaria's "The Post American World," and it discussed the decrease in violence all over the world.
In fact, the world is the safest it has been in a long time. The media just needs to exploit our fears, and thus presents the world as dangerous.
Reading the article made me feel far more positive, by the way.
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