10-02-2007, 11:15 AM
one more thing id like to clarify, the planet is in fact warming, there really isnt a debate there.
the proper name for the debate is "man made global warming"
but we have been conditioned by the media and pop culture that any global warming is a bad thing. to quote Richard Lindzen MIT climatologist "If the climate werent changing then we would have something to worry about"
the question/debate is over whether it is natural/what is causing it/how much are we causing it, and what the effects are.
given that it has been much warmer in our planets recent history (mideival warming period for example) and the polar bears didnt die and we arent even in the warmest period right now of the last century (1930s were warmer) I think that its pretty clear that the current frenzy is at best, largely unsubstantiated alarmism.
the proper name for the debate is "man made global warming"
but we have been conditioned by the media and pop culture that any global warming is a bad thing. to quote Richard Lindzen MIT climatologist "If the climate werent changing then we would have something to worry about"
the question/debate is over whether it is natural/what is causing it/how much are we causing it, and what the effects are.
given that it has been much warmer in our planets recent history (mideival warming period for example) and the polar bears didnt die and we arent even in the warmest period right now of the last century (1930s were warmer) I think that its pretty clear that the current frenzy is at best, largely unsubstantiated alarmism.