Global Warming

[c.d.]

My favorite argument, and one that you hear all the time, is that Al Gore is a hypocrite because he contributes to global warming with plane rides etc. Therefore, global warming is not true. But turn this argument around -- if Al Gore lived in a mud hut and contributed not one iota towards global warming does global warming now become a fact. It is obviously a completely ludicrous argument but you do hear it a lot. So much for critical thinking.

c.d.

[The Good Michael]

CD,

Some people want everything to remain static. They want the same food the same music, the same cars, the same books. They don't want their lives messed with. Yet, no matter how they bubble themselves, they are inexorably headed to their graves and everything is imperceptibly changing around them, because they refuse to look. They want to put fingers in their ears and say, "Nyah, nyah, nyah." No doubt humans have made huge, horrible (by nature's standards) changes to the Earth. Our carbon footprint is bigger than the clouds of methane rising over conglommerate pork farms in the west that have single-handedly polluted much of the water and have killed off species. We're screwed, and I try to do my little bit, but I'm an offender too. Thanks for bringing me down with this poll.

Mike

[c.d.]

It would seem that the wise and prudent course is to at least take it seriously until there is more conclusive evidence one way or another. What I cannot understand is how some people can just completely dismiss the possibility as pure BS. These people almost always seem to be operating from a political point of view which seems quite foolish to me.

c.d.

[sdreid]

False but I wish it was true

[The Good Michael]

Everyone knows it's true, but did we cause it? I'm going with yes, Ripperologists caused it especially those who sold a lot of books.

Mike

[Roy Corduroy]

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