stoney321 | Things that make you go Hmmmm.

For anyone that knows me, you know I'm a big believer in leaving as little a footprint on this earth as possible. I conserve, recycle, compost, walk instead of drive if possible, xeriscape, educate others on water conservation, etc... I'm not perfect, but I try. Ever since I saw "An Inconvenient Truth" I've been panic stricken about the damage we're doing to the earth.

And then I watched this, produced by the UK's Channel 4. (Which apparently is controversial? Hmm. Make the decision for yourself which is truth.)<-- eta

According to the doc: We are not screwing up the world. Well, specifically, the rise in industry - therefore, the rise in CO₂ - is not creating super storms, an ice age, a desert on this earth. Volcanoes put out more CO₂ than all the factories of the world combined. This period of higher temps in summer, etc. are natural, and they cite a period during Chaucer's time where vineyards grew in England as far north as the Lowlands. Our weather is generated by the sun (count sun spots, and you can predict the weather, shown irrefutably, actually), which causes cosmic rays that hit our atmosphere, which generates clouds, which controls the earth's temperature. CO₂ does NOT cause a change in the atmosphere's temperature, and they illustrate this with many lovely charts, from many different sources.

One thing I found particularly unsettling was how the IPCC - the outfit that literally wrote The Book On Global Warming - is made up of 2500 names - not all are scientists. In fact, many are government officials, aides, etc. Many scientists, and my FiL backed this up (he's a former NASA geologist) left the organization when they saw that the data was being manipulated to fulfill a political goal, or outright lied about. Their names were kept on the record as having gone along with the report. !!! RED FLAG.

See, if we create a panic, then people send money for research, and there were 10,000 jobs created around the world for this project. Ahhhh. Money. I see.

So yes, we need to stop depending on oil. We shouldn't throw our garbage out of our windows. We shouldn't put money into COAL. Because those things deplete our resources and are dirty, and I don't want to breathe in coal. But by driving our cars, or flying in planes, or running our AC, we are NOT causing the Apocalypse. We didn't cause Katrina. What else did they say we did? Oh, we're melting the polar ice caps.

DAMMIT, I love data that backs stuff up. This is an EXCELLENT documentary, presented BY scientist, not a spokesman that didn't understand how atmosphere works (which was Gore's big wammo.)

I still fervently believe that we should not be such voracious consumers, that pollution should be curtailed, and alternative forms of oil energy need to be developed. I do not, however, think we will fall into an ice age any time soon. Nor do I believe that mankind is controlling the weather. (And how egotistical is that, really?) The overwhelming amount of information in this hour long film is heartening.

I love such well documented SCIENCE. *pets the data* Had a convo with my FiL and he concurs with the statements made by his fellow scientists in this film. (MIT, The International Weather Foundation, etc. etc.) And now, back to the scrubbing of the house, for I have guests coming, huzzah! And most likely singing various songs in my Al Gore voice, because it makes me laugh.

Current Mood: relieved

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From:

kiji-kat.livejournal.com

Quick question - you said that the documentary said that volcanoes created more CO2 than all the factories on earth combined. But did they say anything about how the CO2 output of volcanoes plus man-made CO2 output could be affecting things? This isn't to refute what you have to say (science is good!), but I am curious to see if this was addressed.

It's always been my argument that even if global warming is a natural process, we still shouldn't use that as a free pass to dump whatever we want into the air. It just makes good sense tread lightly. That, and the thought of breathing, eating, or drinking anything contaminated with harmful chemicals just gives me the willies. (Even the chlorine that's put in water supplies to prevent waterborne illness...well, I'd rather not have illness, but you have to wonder what lifelong exposure to a very poisonous agent can do to the human body. Eh, maybe I think too much.)

From:

darlas-mom.livejournal.com

Get a water filter. I edit medical books for a living, and the one I'm working on right now is about nothing BUT chlorinated water and how it relates to things like CV disease. It's terrifying.

God made me an atheist, who are you to question Her wisdom?

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