If the Oceans are Rising, I can’t see it.
Breaking News:
Our Faces are Going to Melt off within 10 Years
By Rowan, 11/24/09
Here we go yet again……… another doomsday scenario from a group of environmental scientists.
OSLO (Reuters) – Global warming is happening faster than expected and at worst could raise sea levels by up to 2 meters (6-1/2 ft) by 2100, a group of scientists said on Tuesday in a warning to next month’s U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen.
In what they called a “Copenhagen Diagnosis,” updating findings in a broader 2007 U.N. climate report, 26 experts urged action to cap rising world greenhouse gas emissions by 2015 or 2020 to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
I thought Global Warming was supposed to Kill Us by Now
Well, 2010 is right around the corner and Al Gore has been stroking the global warming drum for well over 10 years. (All the while, traveling to and from environmental conferences in his gas guzzling private jet). So far, I just can’t lend much credence to this scenario of impending doom anyhow, since seeing is believing.
Miami and Manhattan are still well above water, and to the best of my knowledge, there hasn’t been a single case of any damage or problems caused by rising waters in the United States. I do recall seeing that an island off of the coast of Alaska is washing away, but that is just an erosion event. Or maybe it has something to do with our country’s obesity epidemic?
And the doom and gloom goes beyond the anticipated water rise, as environmentalists have been sounding alarms that global warming is contributing to active hurricane seasons. But where have all of these crusaders gone over the last 3 years when we have seen virtually no tropical activity? Are they only sounding alarms and pointing their fingers when it a convenient (not inconvenient) truth?
Not so long ago, we were facing imminent Global Cooling
It is my opinion that history will see this hysteria as little more than developing a cause that is much more trendy than based in fact. After all, in the 1970′s, everyone was convinced that we were getting ready to enter into another ice age.
Per Wikipedia: “Global cooling was a conjecture during the 1970s of imminent cooling of the Earth‘s surface and atmosphere along with a posited commencement of glaciation. This hypothesis never had significant scientific support, but gained temporary popular attention due to a combination of press reports that did not accurately reflect the scientific understanding of ice age cycles, and a slight downward trend of temperatures from the 1940s to the early 1970s”
Today, people almost take a masochistic joy in panic, and is evidenced by global warming, forest fires, economic situations, or even the imminent destruction of earth in 2012 (I heard that they are already poised to blame 2012 on George Bush if it happens). Like the fable of the boy who cried Wolf, one day we will face a real imminent crisis, but will be so numbed to the idea of real danger, it will probably catch us when we least expect it. In the meantime, lets just pass another stimulus bill to begin to move our coastal cities in at least 20 miles…….
I guess if it happenes in 2100 I am glad to say I won’t be alive then. I think global warming is interesting to read about and see what theories people have but sometimes people ovewr due it just like politics.
It’s nice to know there are still some people who can think logically and not just follow what everyone else believes, keep up the good fight!Thanks,Tom
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