I didn't read all the responses to the question, so 'forgive' if someone else has beaten me to it:
(1) Yup... the Earth is warming up a bit. But, quite likely not as much as we've been led to believe. Why do I say that? Because of the
data fraud some of the "global warming" scientists were pushing as gospel a while back for one thing. I'm sure you y'all remember that. When the global warmer folks hafta fudge their figures to "prove their point" - it's not much of a point. Also, it's recently been brought to light that many of the current temperature monitoring stations are located in places where the site's
physical enviornment has been radically changed from what it was when the station was 1st set up. (For instance, a station that was originally set up, say, in a farmer's field, is NOW surrounded by skyscrapers instead of grass. NATURALLY it's going to record far higher temps in that area! And yet their data is still recorded as being in a farmer's field.)
(2) When the Ice Age ended and the Earth warmed up, there wasn't an SUV, factory, or coal fired power plant to be seen. Yet somehow the earth
still managed to warm up. Today, the Earth's "wobble" is now credited with doing that.
(3) "Wobble" may be the main cause of what's going on now.
(4) Bankrupting a country like the U.S. by saddling its industry with high carbon credit fees and radical EPA dictates WILL NOT cancel out the polution caused in/by countries like S. Korea, India and China who don't come under the EPA's thumb.
(5) In the 1970's, the "scientific community" was all in a lather about THE COMING ICE AGE we'd be facing in a few decades. Remember that? 'SAME basic scientific community...TOTALLY different "prediction".
In the end, THERE ISN'T DIDDLY man is going to be able do about whatever may happen. Man just ISN'T that all-powerful. And it's the height of arrogance for man to think he is.
Now, does that mean we ought to just DO AS WE PLEASE w/o regard to the possible
rational consequences of our actions? Heck no. We needn't dump old crankcase oil down a drain for instance, or antifreeze, or whatever other toxin you want to mention. IOW,
use some common sense. But
, to say Detroit can ONLY produce cars that puke pure oxygen out their tailpipes, OR to demand the assembly line that produces them has to be powered by wind or solar energy IS JUST PLAIN NUTS in my unworthy opinion. The economic cost is just FAAAAAAAR too high. What good is lowering the earths's temp a degree or two if the world has to go BROKE (and I mean the WHOLE WORLD) to do it and dies of starvation as a result? (It's been suggested, by-the-way, that THE WHOLE WORLD would have to live in caves FOR MANY DECADES to accomplish a drop of degree or two in the Earth's temps...and even THAT is a 'maybe' at best.)
George Carlin probably said it best:
George Carlin On Global Warming Scam - YouTube
I'm stepping off my soapbox now.
Carry on... ('Haven't said that since my Navy days!)
