obeymydog

The tsunami thing might just be the Australian press. Everytime global warming is mentioned on the news, on current affairs shows, or in advertising, they follow footage of the ice caps melting, with footage of the tsunami's, as if there's some direct link between the two events. And so far as the ocean not working properly, unfortunately, if the polar ice caps melt, you're right, the ocean will stop flowing. And although I don't know for sure what that will mean to the planet without a working ocean, let's face it, it can't be a good thing. But right now the world's scientists are just beginning to monitor the ice to see how bad the melting is. The ice has been melting and refreezing forever, and we're only really worrying about it now. Right now the panic over global warming seems to be coming from the press and politicians and celebrity spokespeople, rather than real scientists. In fact, a lot of real scientists haven't yet made up their minds that there is something to worry about. And even more real scientists doubt that anything we do can change the climate change we're experiencing right now. I know there are problems with the way mankind handles the planet and its resources. I know that pollution is at a ridiculous level. But I also know that spending billions of dollars over forty years to attempt to lower the earth's temperature by less than one percent isn't going to help.

I totally get what you're saying, and you're right it shouldn't be either environmental or human causes being addressed. I just have some problems with the way the global warming thing is being handled by the press and politicians. And maybe it's just the way it's being handled in Australia, I don't know. First of all, whenever global warming is mentioned here, every natural disaster of the last ten years is laid at it's feet. And some of these connections make no sense whatsoever. Like the tsumani's. Tsunami's are caused by underground earthquakes, which has nothing at all to do with the earth's weather, or pollution, or anything that is an effect of anything mankind has done to the planet. Yet whenever they talk about global warming on the news in Australia, they show footage of the recent tsumani's. It makes me want to scream at somebody. I'm all for the environment and cutting back pollution and making cleaner burning fuels and minimising mankind's footprint on the earth. It just makes me cynnical when the words 'global warming' become a catchcry for politicians who proclaim that for just a few hundred billion dollars in extra taxation, they can lower the earth's temperature by less than 1% by the year 2050 (the Kyoto Accord). Maybe it's just me, but the idea of lowering the global temperature by less than one percent doesn't seem like it's going to make that much of a difference. However, those few hundred billion dollars over the next forty years would make a world of difference to the poor, the hungry, and the war-torn. Anyway, just a thought.

From what I heard, Bob Geldof and U2 aren't involved either. A couple of months ago when plans were announced that the concerts would raise money, rather than just awareness, the more political bands got cold feet about the whole thing. There were no plans for this money. It was just all going to be placed in a fund which Al Gore would administer, and which would be used at his discretion, as soon as the world figured out how any amount of money could be used to change the world's natural weather cycle. By the way, thirty years ago, in the mid-Seventies, these exact same quasi-scientists who are now telling us that the world is going to end from global warming, were telling us that the world was going to end from global cooling. We were all warned of a terrible ice age if the weather didn't warm up a couple of degrees. Well, guess what, the weather warmed up a couple of degrees. This cycle of cooling and warming also happened six hundred years ago, long before the industrial age, long before SUV's and air conditioning. Weather is cyclic. Not just season to season, but decade to decade, and century to century. So, personally, I hope Coldplay aren't a part of Live Earth. Couldn't we have another worldwide festival aimed at making a real difference in the world. Something to feed starving children? Something to send medical aid to the third world? Something to end the war for oil? Something that will actually make a difference?

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