Originally posted by: DonVito
Originally posted by: Stunt
lol
This is expected...remember the hurricanes last year and the one week of humid summer?
Environuts were screaming bloody murder.
I guess I'm surprised to see you, Stunt, using words like "environuts," when there's such consensus among the scientific community that global climate change is a real phenomenon that will have major consequences.
While I am an environmentalist in the clean air, less waste, less pollution sense; I have my doubts about CO2 being a "pollutant".
I've read studies where people can attribute higher earth temperatures to most weather stations being close to cities where there's more radiation from activities, and concrete which absorbs heat. Cities on average are several degrees hotter than rural areas in the same region. Most people are in urban areas so that's where most advanced weather stations are.
Also climatologists are in the business of research; if they can get people to think this is the end of the world, think of the research money they get for that. It's like assuming the guys on TV with the investment kits know what they are doing with regards to investing. Sure they might have a case for their skills, but in the end they get their money from selling their investing package. Not saying there is a conspiracy...but with how volitile weather is and how little we know about its fluctuations; it would be advantagous for these people to favor certain data...until found wrong. (like the "hockey stick curve")
The world is a cyclical environment; we have gone through several ice ages...what happened in between those? Global Warming. How fast or to what extent were these warm periods? Nobody knows.
In the end why waste so much time and energy on something that we have little control over? The world needs fossil fuels and to drop our emissions by 10% on 1990 levels will be a drop in the bucket. I'd much rather see environmental efforts go towards smog and other cleanup. Global Warming in my eyes is still unfounded and a potentially huge waste of resources; for what could potentially be accomplished.