"Zootal" wrote in message
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"Caesar Romano" wrote in message
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On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:46:48 -0800 (PST), RickH
wrote Re Global Warming and what
you can do to against it:


If there is global warming then it is a natural process not caused by
man.

Also a little warming will improve life for man, provide longer and
more widespread growing seasons, more food, more commerce, less fuel
usage, etc.

The scientists cannot be trusted, as they are too politically
motivated.

The local politicians cannot be trusted as they have a socialist
agenda, and GW is a convenient crisis to shift wealth to the govt.

Al Gore cannot be trusted as he has a company set up to profit greatly
from carbon trading, and he has a carbon footprint 50 times larger
than mine.

The world politicians cannot be trusted as they are just looking for
us (the US) to shovel money into their bananna republics or mini-
dictatorships. That money will not go to any climate cause at all, it
will be confiscated by the local dictators to further their regimes.

When China buys in, then I'll believe GW is really happening, China is
much smarter than us (the US) lately. On the "issue" of GW China can
be trusted, as they are the only skeptics.

Good post.
--
Work is the curse of the drinking class.

In the 1960s scientists were predicting continued global cooling, as that
is what had been going on for a few decades. Some of them were actually
predicting the start of an ice age. In 1970 or so the globe started to
warm up again, and the global cooling hysteria ended. In the late 1970s,
top climate experts agreed on one thing - that their predictions were
unreliable, and we just didn't know enough to explain or predict global
warming/cooling. They were divided among whether the earth would warm,
cool, or stay the same. They just didn't know.

Today is the same. Climate experts cannot agree. Some say cooling, some
say warming, some say man-made warming, some say it is natural cycles. The
most recent warming trend appears to have stopped shortly after the year
2000, which seems to be consistent with the warming/cooling cycles that we
have seen going on for over 100 years. Now we are in a cooling trend again
(which none of the climate models can explain), but it hasn't cooled
enough, long enough, to really be significant. What nobody knows right
now, neither the scientists, nor the politicians, and most definitely not
the extremists, is if the earth will continue to cool, or if it will start
to warm up again.

It doesn't really matter what the temps do. We have a climate crisis and
we must save the planet (never mind that the extremists can't quite agree
on what the current crisis is...). And it is all the fault of George W.
Bush and the evil capitalist Americans (while ignoring how much CO2 China
pumps out). We must give our hard earned money to third world countries so
they can continue to squat in the mud and blame the Americans.


Well said...Great post....