Subj : Re: Katrina's real name
To   : Deuce
From : richardw
Date : Thu Sep 08 2005 02:30 pm

  Re: Re: Katrina's real name
  By: Deuce to richardw on Thu Sep 08 2005 10:45 am

 >  > Sure there is.  It's our tax dollars.  Politicians provide research grant
 >  > to educational facilities, assuming of course they can dig up "facts" to
 >  > support the desired conclusions.  Of course these studies show global
 >  > warming is a fact!  And it's cow farts doing it!  Keep that grant money
 >  > flowing please sir, thank you very much!
 >  >
 >  > The pro global warming lobbying is all about scare tactics, and fighting
 >  > "big business."  How can we honestly say we are changing the climate of
 >  > the planet, when we have only been keeping track of global temperatures
 >  > for _maybe_ 100 years?!?  Perhaps there's a cyclic thing going on here
 >  > we're ignorant of?
 >  >
 >  > Supposedly, my great great grandfather once drove his old Ford Model T
 >  > car across a frozen Lake Mineral Wells.  This have never happened in MY
 >  > lifetime.  I believe this planet has a much stronger grasp of it's climat
 >  > than we can ever hope to acheive.  It's pretty much self-correcting, and
 >  > the little "gnats" called humans have absolutely no measurable influence.
 > 
 > I don't believe I've encountered anyone who can honestly belive that mankind
 > doesn't have SOME effect on the environment.  As individuals, I'd agree...
 > there's not much I personally could to to affect it.  But considered en mass
 > we've been tinkering with the environment for centuries.  However, since you
 > honestly appear to belive that mankind has no influence on it whatsoever, I
 > don't see any reasonable starting point for a meaningfull discussion.

It's not that we have no influence... but what we do is countered by the 
environment.  If we produce more carbon dioxide, the trees breathe better, 
and produce a greater output of oxygen.  I feel like we've not done any 
DAMAGE per se.

If you think about it, there was an asteroid hit this planet big enough to 
create the gulf of mexico, but the planet went on with producing life.  
Admittedly, I don't know if mankind would have survived such an event, 
I'd like to think we would as a race, but the planet itself is self correcting.

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