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The scientific community has known of this problem since the 1960's. Problem is, political issues have always kept the public uninformed, especially in the US (the world biggest consumer of fossil fuels and emitter of greenhouse gases). The fear that being 'green' with somehow destroy the economy. The whole "scientific communitty is plotting against us" conspiracy actually started with an off hand comment by some senetor during election time in the 1980's. If anything, the conspiracy is that the government has been down playing the threat, continues to keep the public uninformed, and refuses to understand the problem. Its typical of human nature, wait until its nearly too late to act on it.
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Well, I don't think its quite so cut and dry...
And Im not proposing its ALL a conspiracy...
Like, if they knew CO2 was a green house gas back when CO was the big problem, is proof that we have a tendency to make decisions that only traded the problem and we paid good money for it (cat converters, add'l taxation etc..).
Now, I don't think the arguments against global warming are so much that we throwing CO2 into the air and can cause global temps to rise - what I HAVE to believe what IS debated amongst the scientists - is the accuracy of the historical data that was *not* measured directly.
This historical data is used as a base line to compare what would be 'normal'.
I mean how do they know 100% certain, what the air/water temps, or CO2 levels 1000 years ago - its not measured directly. Whats the margin of error in their *calculated* historical data? - and is it more so than the temp changes we see?
Now if *water vapor* is a green house gas too, and it varies from 36% to 90% - will removing the 20% of CO2 make ANY difference - seems to be something I question personally. Are we gonna spend billions to convert that CO2 to more water vapor and still have the green house warming?
Either way - I do hope we eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels, but I cant say Im looking forward to the drought thats likely to happen if/when we use/depend on anything from vegetation either. I guess when that happens in Brazil (maybe this year???) we'll learn
So... I propose we sell off our cars and buy up all those chineese rickshaws and bicycles - I bet the chineese would sell em cheap now that they have less use for them -
while extensive, un-biased, testing proves the 'right' way to go from here.
Obese America needs the exercise, AFAIK 'sweat' isnt an environmental hazard.
maybe our dependency on OIL isnt the true problem, but dependency on transportation is?? To me, this seems more like 'root cause' at this point.
Too bad its not practical so that will never happen - I have to believe this is also why no actions have been taken in the past.
Thats it - WORK is the real culprit - just say no to work.
Seriously - I cant put my finger on it... but I have this ugly feeling we are heading toward a bigger problem from over reacting to this one. I mean - politicians are jumping on it now too. Thats rarely a good sign. What are they up to - certainly not our well being. They didnt care before - why now?
Somethings not right.
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We already see it with the extreme weather, the melting of the polar ice cap and the world glaciers, and rising temperatures of the oceans.
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But, we also know these things happened naturally too.