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06.30.2008 5:15 pm

Global warming: Fact or fiction?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Global warming. Now as you read those words what pops into your head? Half of America being underwater, no polar bears, melting ice, rising seas. The truth is that the sea level is rising and some of the ice is melting. But what causes that? No one knows for sure. There is no convincing evidence that humans are the cause. Volcanic activity under the ice is the cause of a good portion of it all. No. America isn’t going to be underwater anytime soon. In fact, half of the 627 mountain glaciers that the Service has been measuring have been growing. And the West Greenland Glacier, the largest block of ice in the Northern Hemisphere, has grown 7 feet in depth since 1980 and is still continuing to grow.

 

Some of the ice is melting and sea levels are rising, but they’ve done that since the last Ice Age. Global warming isn’t the cause for melting ice and rising seas, now we just have and organized excuse for it.

 

People have been saying that there are open waters in the Arctic Ocean for the first time in recorded history. Now that got all over the news. But when the Navy pointed out that that happens every year no one ever considered putting that on the news. Some scientists also say that this climate change has happened before. A poll taken by the American Viewpoint found that the majority of U.S. climate scientists don’t agree “ human activities are disrupting the global climate”. No one bothered to put that on the news either. 

 Now is it global warming, or just a repeated climate change?

Audrey Clark

Columbia, Mo.

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FICTION FICTION FICTION

Our weather patterns run in cycles. The idiots were saying an ice age was coming in the 70’s. Now the same idiots, headed by Al Gore, claim the earth is warming. The earth HAS NOT warmed since 1998.

Al Gore has made over $100,000,000, with this friggin’ hoax.

— JD
6:58 pm June 30th, 2008

IT DOESN’T MATTER.

Left wing. Right Wing. It does not matter.

Even if global warming is a sham and absolutely disreputable science (and much of it is) IT STILL DOESN’T MATTER.

It’s still not a good idea to do things that are damaging to the environment, and that’s just common sense.

If you are a left-winger, then it should be abhorable to you on an environmental level - you’re beliefs in the ‘green’ way of doing things and global warming should keep you from polluting and damaging the environment.

If you are a right-winger then you should realize you have a biblical imperative to be a good steward of the earth and everything on it and that it’s in everyone’s enlightened self interest not to damage the place where you live and breath.

It’s really a no brainer.

Just because Al Gore is a misguided dolt doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take care of the environment.

Duh.

Mac
http://www.brownsludge.com

— Mac
6:43 am July 1st, 2008

To quote Ayn Rand’s protagonists from The Fountainhead, “I’m sure that the man that discovered fire was burned at the steak”. I am increasingly convinced of one thing, the environmentalist movement is about choking of the quality and quantity of human life. You could discover that sea water packs a nice clean energy punch, and they’d oppose it on grounds that we’re using up the world’s resources.

— djr
6:56 am July 1st, 2008

I’m amused by the fact that Global Warming has somehow turned into another “left vs right” arena. “Now the same idiots, headed by Al Gore….”
Whay can’t it just be considered a human issue. I don’t think you will find any scientist who will disagree that the earth warms and cools in cycles, and that we may just be in another warming cycle. That isn’t what “global warming” is about. What is alarming about the current trends is the RATE at which the climate IS warming.
Why does there have to be controversy about making changes to our lives that are just better for everyone. Whether you believe we are in a climate crisis or not, wouldn’t it be nice to be not worry about soaring energy prices. There is really no loser if we make changes to a cleaner way of living.

— maccaulich
8:32 am July 1st, 2008

maccaulich

There is no controversy from me, about making changes in our lives, to make the world better for everyone. I am all for, a cleaner burning fuel for cars and trucks, cleaner use of coal and nuke power.

It is all about the false claims, from the left, and the scare tactic’s they are trying to use, and the ungodly amount of money, that Al Gore and his ilk, are stealing from people, using scare tactic’s.

— JD
8:57 am July 1st, 2008

All humans should make every reasonable effort to protect the earth’s environment. The operative word there is “reasonable.” Humans are a part of the natural world. Population growth and technology have resulted in increased impact by humans on the environment. Humans will never develop a way to be a totally benign presence in the environment. We can continue the rhetoric of immediately ceasing fossil fuel consumption or the opposite extreme of continued total dependence on fossil fuel. Neither is helpful to the dilemma we face. We can’t undiscover fossil fuel and we can’t fast forward the process of alternate energy development. Practical conservation, mitigation, and innovation are the required paths. But, our politics and ideologies will slow any progress while we play the blame game. A meteor shower or series of volcano eruptions could drastically change the world climate tomorrow. The bottom line, as always, is that humans will either adapt or perish.

— A#
2:17 pm July 1st, 2008

I’ll take the global warming hysterics seriously when they start practicing what they preach and developers stop building ocean front property.

— Go_Fish
4:10 pm July 1st, 2008

Any time you are around running automobiles,trucks etc,see the smoke from the stacks of a steel mill smelting ore,a coal fired electrical generating plant,you can see the pollution being emitted,can we live without all these things NO,can we clean it up as much as possible and still use all the benefits from what it produces YES,Is the present furor over global warming mostly politics,YES.The US has led the world in inovation and technology and its caused a lot of jealousy among the other countries and they wish to cut the US down to their level,most of our accomplishments have been shared with the rest of the peoples of the world,so use what we have wisely,and tell the rest to take a hike. LS

— HAM
10:34 am July 2nd, 2008