its amazing how many people focus on this as much as they do. i mean, if your participating in earth hour, or trying to start recycling (good luck in Oregon), or anything like that, good job. but people need to realize that Al Gore is a politician. and recently he hasn't been doing anything, so to keep his face in the paper he brought up the whole global warming thing.
they dont even call it global warming anymore. my dad put it vary well when he said
"Now they are getting everyone upset about global warming. They ran into a problem with that though because 1. The last couple of years have been cooler than normal. 2. Some scientists have pointed out that the warmest years since we have kept records were in the 1940's 3. the earths temperature has dropped about 1/2 degree since the start of the industrial revolution. Solution: Now they are calling it "Climate change" That way if it is warmer or cooler, wetter or dryer than normal they can blame it on "climate change"."
and does anyone else think its starting to get ridiculous? i mean, there taxing cows for farting now, because the methane is a green house gas. does anyone realise water vapor is the number one green house gas? how about we start sending all out water to mars? they seem to need it, and its obviously making it to hot here. Or how about ethanol? last i heard Obama was pushing 15% ethanol in all gas. it actually ends up polluting the earth more and you get less gas mileage from it.
Then again, people need to be scared of something apparently. Before this it was clear cutting would kill all our forest, and the ozone layer, and us running out of air because were cutting down the rain forest. something new comes along, and people forget about the other stuff.
anyway, to the point, climate change is real, but its a natural thing, the earth go's through shifts where overall it gets warmer, then colder, then warmer again. we probably have had some impact on it, but its so minimal, we shouldn't be putting nearly as big a focus on it as we are.
As for energy, i think we need to drill here in America for now, we got oil, more jobs here, and we DO have the oil its estimated we have 885.9 billion barrels of oil here in America. If we drill here we can get alot of the oil we need (that means more money here=less debt). while were doing that it gives us alot of time to research new technology's, or simply start using them, such as nuclear. Because one day i can see us all driving fully electric cars, and getting that energy from wind, solor, wave, and nuclear plants.
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What's wrong with saying "Global warming"? It's just a term isn't it? I know what you mean when you talk about the other energy sorces but that's just one more thing that we would have to pay for and no one seems to have the money for it at the moment. I'm just saying.
The resources I've looked at say the hottest year on record was 2005. I remember that summer here, and it was pretty atrocious. I do agree that the discussion of global warming is far too full of hysteria and contradiction and nonsense, but the fact is that we've known about the possibility of global warming for decades -- I remember hearing about the greenhouse effect when I was in junior high school and high school, before you whippersnappers were even born. The oil supply reached crisis point in the 1970's, when OPEC cut the production so much that we had to ration gasoline, and it helped drive us into a recession. The point is that we could have done what you suggest then: we could have started drilling in the US, offshore and in Alaska; we could have put all of our energy into researching reasonable ways to produce wind and water and solar and geothermal power, and conserve petroleum, and deal with nuclear waste, and everything else, starting years ago. We didn't. Instead we started strip-mining coal in Virginia and driving SUV's.
I think Americans need a little bit of hysteria before we get off our fat cans and do something, anything. I don't think global climate change will have serious effects until after I'm dead -- but I still believe I should do everything I can to deal with the problem, now, before it is too late to change the trends that are currently happening very slowly. Because they are happening very slowly, with some steps in the other directions -- 2009 was the coldest winter in many years -- but they are also speeding up. Wait and see what this summer will be like before you decide that the Earth is not slowly getting warmer, or the climate is not changing. And don't wait another second before you start doing something to help.
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