Originally Posted by
Dixie
Don, I don't know of anyone who disputes the average median temperatures on the planet have increased over the past century. This is scientifically backed data that is irrefutable. The people you call "no global warming folks" are those who do not believe that the cause of global warming is human activity. This is where there is a difference of opinion, not in the fact that we are getting warmer.
Now, you said "rising sea levels" but how do you determine this? It's not like we have a giant measuring stick we go stick into the middle of the ocean every year, to see how much it has gone up or down! Much of the "data" we are seeing these days, is suspect to begin with, because there is big money involved in this whole "global warming" scheme. It benefits certain people to propagate this myth that human activity is causing the earth to heat up and we are heading for certain doom.... (if we don't fork over trillions of tax dollars to "fix" the problem!) You see???
Here's the deal, Don... The Earth is in a warming cycle. It has been for over 200 years. This cycle may last 1000 to 10,000 years, or it may end abruptly with a volcanic eruption or similar atmospheric calamity. Much of this has to do with the Sun, and we have no control over what the Sun does. As humans here on Earth, nothing we can do will prevent the Sun from heating the Earth more or less.
I have heard the "freaks" of global warming, claiming that if we don't act now, the oceans will rise so many feet over the next decade or two, and entire cities will be underwater! ALARM!! But here's the thing... IF that should happen, don't you imagine the dramatic change in water temps due to the melting ice, which enable the convection and conveyance of deep ocean currents, which in turn, enable most of the sea life to exist and flourish, and control all the tropical storms and hurricanes, will present a much bigger problem to us, before any city goes under water? I mean... Don... If we have no more sea life, and we are inundated with massive mega hurricanes all the time, what difference does it make if New York goes under water? Life as we know it on this planet, will no longer exist by then!
Now Don, I am a conservative, some would argue I am a radical right-wing conservative... but I don't think we should just ignore mankind's contributions to the effects of global warming. If there is something we can do to prevent making this situation worse, or 'clean up' our mess, I want to do that, because I really do like our planet, and I hope for it to last a while longer. That said, I am not ready to gulp down a bunch of Al Gore koolaid and fork over more of my tax money on some silly and pointless exercise in futility.
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