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by Mr. McClister on November 15th, 2006

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Do you agree or disagree with the theory of global warming?

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  • by Nulinvoid on December 21st, 2006

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    Before anyone reads this, I'll warn everyone, It's is a very strong rant.

    I personally do not care whether global warming is provable or not. The fact is enough scientists are concerned about it that it is worth considering.

    And what are thes scientists asking us to do to fix it? Clean up our air, our water, and the fithy industrial habits that are polluting our earth. They are asking us to do things that we ought to be doing anyway, regardless of global warming.

    Yeah, they are asking companies and the government to do extremely expensive things to accomplish this. SO WHAT???

    Is money worth more than life?

    Even if global warming is not happening, there are enough other threats resulting from our filthy habits.

    Would you rather wait until it's proven before we do something? At that time it will be too late.

    The purpose behind the alert is to get people to do something before it's too late.

    Have any of you ever been to your local dump?

    Were any of you there at the same dump twenty years ago? Thirty years ago? Have you ever studied how long it is expected to be before the land used for dumping will be usable again?

    If you can see the full picture of what is happening with our solid waste alone, and cannot see that we are slowly destroying our planet, then you have no eyes.

    So what if there is no global warming? What if the rainforests being destroyed is not having any effect on our global oxygen supply? What if there is no acid rain? What if all of these threats are unprovable? SO WHAT?????

    It's simple common sense that allows us to look at billows of toxic smoke eminating from factories, exhaust from our cars, household trash in our dumps, twenty to fifty year old toxic waste dumps, etcetera, etcetera ad nauseum, and say to ourselves, "*THIS* *IS* *WRONG*!" AND "WE NEED TO CHANGE!"

    As far as I am concerned anyone who can look at all that and then turn to another human being and say "it'll cost too much, and besides it hasn't really been proven any damage is happening" can go suck an exhaust pipe!

    Then I want them to tell me how refreshing it is.

    Edit: I feel I should mention that my remarks are not directed at anyone in particular here on AB. After reviewing this it almost looks like it is.

    I realize there are different opinions on global warming. I'm responding to attitudes I have heard elsewhere, not on AB. So please don't take this personally. It's a response to an attitude I am reminded of by the question itself and other responses I have heard. Most noteably that of Rush Limbaugh.

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    • More polution comes out of a volcano in one week than man kind ever made. Our garbage dump has now got a beautiful golf course on it, and it also has a power plant fired by the gases produced. We get our power from it. There is a beautiful club house too.
      It would take 100 new cars to produce the toxins produced by one old car from the 60's. Look how clean the streams are now. It is getting way better. We used to throw trash out the windows in the 60's, now I go pick it up. Check this out. http://www.clearlight.com/~mhieb/WVFossils/ice_ages.html I like your rain forest comment, except it is happening. That is what I want to stop.
      Lets save the rain forest!

      Jim100

      by Jim100 on January 5th, 2007

    • We can't do anything about volcanoes, but there is a lot we can do about our own habits. I agree we've come a long way from 50 or 60 years ago, but we still are a long way off from a clean earth. The problem is, there is a lot of money to be made by ignoring that. Not that corporations are necessarily ignoring it, but the fact still remains that if there is a choice between making money and keeping our earth clean, and functioning properly, profit still forces compromises. This earth will never be the way it should be until we all stop compromising that priority. Profit without destroying, or no profit at all.

      Nulinvoid

      by Nulinvoid on January 5th, 2007

    • Jim, care to back up that volcano statement with a credible source or two?

      Anon

      by Anon on May 8th, 2007

    • It's a GOOD RANT...count me in!

      Redhawk

      by Redhawk on May 14th, 2007

    • For what its worth ... here are comments about volcano's and global warming:

      http://www.gaspig.com/volcano.htm

      M Moon

      by M Moon on October 19th, 2007

    • There's an area of floating plastic garbage in the North Pacific the size of Texas. Things are not improving.

      Halskiisaklink

      by Halskiisaklink on October 26th, 2007

    • The following link contains a lot of interesting reads on volcanoes vs. man and their effects on the atmosphere. Read them all, then decide for yourself: http://www.gaspig.com/volcano.htm

      Little Miss Dangerous

      by Little Miss Dangerous on February 10th, 2008

    • Good comment. I would have to agree with you on most points. It is good that we are changing our habits and cleaning up the world, we surely need to do that. I have a problem the people that are so over the top that anyone that disagrees with them about the facts are equated to Nazis and Holocaust deniers. My belief is that we need to clean up the world but I am not jumping on the politically motivated "GREEN MACHINE" there are far to many questions to be answered. The topic IS still open for debate contrary to what people like Gore and Suzuki say. BTW Suzuki wants jail time for any politician the happens to not tow the "green line". Fascism at it's best: do what we tell you, believe as we do or pay with your freedom! Gimme a break!

      Abbyguy

      by Abbyguy on February 14th, 2008

    • What in global warming needs "cleaned up" .. what is pollution... you think CO2 is pollution.... then stop breathing... The bulk of CO2 emmitted from fossil fuels is from power plants not the industrial plants you call nasty.... think ... CO2 was all in the air before life came to be.... The planet was hot and cooled.... that doesn't follow the CO2 model .... then life formed and put fossil fuels in the ground... other factors... you might take Little Miss Dangerous seriously and read about the volcanoes....

      Marks_A_Lot

      by Marks_A_Lot on December 31st, 2008

    • thank god our planet has a self healing process

      Lulla

      by Lulla on May 21st, 2009

    • If you make it too expensive to do business with arbitrary environmental taxes, those businesses will just go to a country without such laws and the result will most likely be an industry that is dirtier than it was before.
      The ends never justify the means. People fail to realize that 16% of food production worldwide is possible because of the additional CO2 in the atmosphere, and that hunger is the number one killer of human beings currently. Want to regrow the rainforests? Keep the current projected output of CO2 emissions and it can be done completely and then some by mid-century. In the blind rage to condemn CO2 based on what is essentially a flawed 1917 assumption about the nature of the atmosphere, the human-caused global warming hysteria threatens to make life even more miserable in places like Africa and Asia, where restricting the building of a cheap coal power-plant is a matter of life and death for many.

      leetmeat

      by leetmeat on June 23rd, 2009

    • An unfortunate truth!

      Redhawk

      by Redhawk on June 23rd, 2009

    • I agreeNulinvoid. +4.
      People prefer to deny things . They do not want to attempt to improve . Are they to Lazy? Too materialistic? Too frighten? This is illogical to me. Logic dictates that you attempt to do all you can do to keep our precious plant around for as long as possible.
      Most Scientist feel we must make changes now.

      philosopher

      by philosopher on October 2nd, 2009

    • philosopher: Are you aware of the huge industry that global warming has spawned? It would be detrimental to the economy to start denying it now. There are so many scientists with proof that it is just part of the natural cycle being stifled because they don't say what they are told to. Political pressure is huge on the scientific community to say the "correct" things or loose funding. So if you were a scientist that depended on grants and funding would you speak out against a machine that would shut you down and put you out of work in a New York minute? I don't think so.
      We have a responsibility to pollute less and do less environmental damage than we are and this is one way to achieve it, but to say that all global warming is caused by humans is beyond naive and borders on the absurd and ridiculous.
      Did you follow the link from Little Miss dangerous? I bet not, it may make you open your eyes to what else can lead to the problems we face. It's not all man made!
      Gimme a break!

      Abbyguy

      by Abbyguy on October 2nd, 2009

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