Go See This Film (An Inconvenient Truth)
Best analogy of the film ... if you drop a frog in boiling water it will jump straight out. If you put a frog in luke warm water and slowly turn up the heat it will stay in the water until it boils to death. We are fighting incrementalism in which it is hard to feel the effects of global warming on a daily basis but the evidence seems clear we are headed in the wrong direction and we ought to put the world straight for the young boys below in the blog. I wouldn't mind hearing equal time of people who are not convinced that global warming is a serious problem just to hear how they argue it. If you know any great sources let me know. But the film was at a minimum a very compelling case that we need to act now and also to find ways to reduce our dependency on oil. DON'T BE LAZY - GO SEE THIS FILM !!!!!!!!!!
posted by Mark Suster at 1:34 AM
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Hi Mark, I'm a Suster too, greetings. I can't be convinced of global warming and the hole in the ozone layer. That is I can't be convinced by evidence we have as a modern society that there is even global warming or the hole in the ozone layer is getting worse (larger). A fact remains about how we collect data to use as evidence in support of an argument. Some argue the world is 2000 years old and others argue it is millions of years old. Either way, I would say the climates of the Earth have been monitored and analyzed with great precision and technology within the last 50 to 60 years. We may have recorded the temperature, wind speed, and other easily obeservable "facts" about the weather for a very long time, but climate couldn't really be seen as it can with high end technology. The point of my little story is that with the data we have in our possesion today concerning the climate means nothing when one tries to reach conclusions about trends in the climate such as global warming and the hole in the ozone layer. Why is this? Even with rock solid an accurate data for the last 100 years, let's say, that is nothing relative to the trends that have occured over thousands, if not millions, of years the Earth has existed. Some say the ozone layer has fluctuated in the size of its hole on and off pre-historically. The same goes for the warming global environment. Now, 4000 years from now or so when the people alive then look back at what we record now, I think a more evidence based argument can be made that global warming is getting worse and the hole in the ozone layer is bigger for sure. Even then, relatively speaking, 4000 years is nothing comapared to the climate trends of millions of years (if the Earth is millions of years old). However, I do see a huge problem with the toxic food we eat and the toxic waste of mankind that pollutes nature and full circle destroys mankind over time. Sickness always finds its way home. Peace, and enjoy life.
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