Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: Macattak1
The problem is that their is no global warming. If there was, that means that the BBC should have scared the heck out of everyone with their global cooling decades back. I remember those shows. Greenhouse gases are not our enemies. Water Vapor is not our enemy. Carbon Dioxide is not our enemy. They run at their own cycle. Simply looking at historical temps shows that burning down all the forests in the US, Europe, Asia, South America, etc. did not cause our earth to just keep getting hotter and hotter and hotter.
All things in moderation. Too much of these things can be bad. Carbon dioxide - it did wonders for Venus. Water vapor - lots of it, plus plenty of solar energy = hurricanes. These are exaggerated examples of course, we're not going to turn into Venus or anything close, nor will we become a planet encased in perpetual hurricanes. Hell, cars produce ozone, but it's considered a pollutant. Why? If it's several miles above the surface, it's great stuff, good for reducing atmospheric penetration some UV wavelengths. If it's at the ground, people breathe it, which will irritate the respiratory tract considerably, as well as various mucous membranes; prolonged exposure may even cause lung problems.
The desire to change our ways with respect to global warming is simply for the sake of convenience. Earth won't become uninhabitable, it'd just get a bit more difficult. And maybe it is part of a natural cycle of warming. But if the planet is already warming up, and there exists the potential for weather patterns that threaten our happy comfortable little lives, then maybe it'd be a good idea to not give this natural cycle a boost. If someone's breaking into your house, you don't go open the front door and turn on the lights for him.
Granted, I don't think that things will be as dire as Gore speaks of. I wonder that he's not just trying to show the worst case scenario, in the hopes of getting
something done.
Ask for something, get nothing.
Ask for everything, get a little.
Once it filters through all the people who call him a scammer and a has-been, the bit that remains might be more helpful than if he'd asked only for minor changes. If he'd start out asking for minor changes, they'd get filtered out entirely, and nothing would ever come of it.