I would like to state and be clear about the fact that I believe in Global Warming BUT I don't believe humans contribute as much as they say to it!!! If at anytime you disagree with me that's OK but just read that first line again. I'll just state some past and current events to make my point.
We are concerned that the US as a whole wastes and pollutes the environment more than any other nation on earth. Some also accuse the US of not doing enough. Statistically China pollutes the environment more than any other country and it's getting worse. Russia or the Ukraine comes in a close second. The air and environment is more polluted in the oil rich countries. Still let's remain the worst of the worst.
Dinosaurs may have become extinct because a greenhouse affect made their world unliveable. Man didn't pollute the environment. We tend to think that we are doing more damage than perhaps we really can. We tend to look at the fact that in the past decades, the earth's oceans' temperatures have risen a degree. They look at the increase in natural disasters, especially the tsunami and hurricane Katrina, to prove their doomsday theory. Of course we are the cause, because we don't take care of the shrinking environment, yadayadayada...
Now the Christians are even starting to wonder if there is Global Warming, with man as the cause, and what can we possibly do to stop it??? Practice What You Preach is not in the ten commandments, I assume. When the end of the world comes there is nothing that anyone can do to stop it. Also there is nothing anyone can do to start it. Yeah, it is hard to believe if you think that you are God!!!
We often tend to forget things that have happened in the past that may not have been as deadly because the earth's population as a whole was lower. Take for example what happened in August of 1883, the day Krakatoa awoke and sent destruction around the world. The ocean and atmosphere temperature dropped a degree worldwide. This made for killer frosts in the summer and the destruction of plants and food!
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link%3D/earth/interior/Krakatoa.html&back%3D/search/search_navigation.html&edu%3Dmid
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/frequent_questions/grp7/asia/question879.html
We tend to forget that volcanic eruptions emit more toxic gasses and ash than the entire population on earth can in decades! |