John at Some Poor Schmuck has a list of seven questions for the “Global Warming� chicken littles of the world.
I am listing this as another item I wished I had written.
I’ll give you the first two. You have to go here to read the rest. I think you’ll want to keep them in your wallet for easy reference the next time you get some loony amateur weather-nut screaming at you.
1. Exactly what needs to be done? Specifics please, not generalities like “reducing greenhouse gases”.
2. Who needs to do it? Again, specifics. If is going to impact my day-today life, tell me how and let me decide if it is worth it. Don’t insult me by telling me that it would be “the rich” or “the corporations” both these groups are made up of people.
AK, I really think this whole global warming thing is horseshit. I am sitting in New England coming off the coldest winter in memory and they tell us the world is warming? Chicken Little has nothing over these pantywaists. How many times are they going to cry wolf before somebody in power calls them on it and says fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
I am tired of the pussies in the Republican party kowtowing to the wimpier dhimmies. Fuck em if they can’t take a joke….your candidate lost the election and he is a fucking wimp, traitorous asshole who deserves to rot in prison but, will likely be reelected by the lib assholes in taxachusetts.
But that is my opinion and of course I could be wrong.
I don’t know that I could disagree with anything you said there, bol.
Actually if you look at geophysical data, we are in one of the relatively short “interglacial” periods of Earth’s History. The period of recorded history is one of the higher (though by no means the highest) periods in mean global temperature.
I watched a lecture given jointly by the Astrophysics and Microbiology departments of the University of Washington, entitled “The End of the World.” It is shown every so often on the UWTV channel; I recommend it as it’s very interesting. One of the professors giving the lecture made the humorous remark that he was secretly cheering for global warming because we are overdue for another period of glaciation and there are too many humans this time around to simply retreat before the ice sheets.
Eventually though (we’re talking millions and millions of years) the expansion of the sun as Hydrogen fusion begins to fail will increase the global temperature. One thing that I hadn’t known was that the percentages of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the Earth’s past were *much* higher than they are now – incidentally the reason there are no longer dragonflies the size of hawks; not enough oxygen for them anymore – and the percentages of both are decreasing as the total amount of nitrogen goes up. At some point there will not be enough carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to support plant life at all; however this isn’t the end. A food chain based on bure carnivorism is possible, with bacteria as both the top and bottom of the chain. Shortly thereafter (in geologic time) the global temperature will increase beyond even animals’ ability to survive, and bacteria will be alone until the sun swallows Earth in its continued expansion.
sigh, a typo despite my proofreading… should read “pure” carnivorism.
Please come and see my Global Warming Primer if you have a minute.
http://saintknowitall.blogspot.com/2005/01/global-warming-primer.html
Sincerely,
Saintknowitall