Monday, July 12, 2010

Want to know global warming Facts and what can be done?

I am stunned and ashamed. I simply cannot fathom the ignorance regarding global warming in my country. Yes, it's happened in the past. Nope, it's never heppened like it is now...





FACT: %26gt;30,000 people DIED%26lt; in the single month of August 2003 from the worst heatwave ever recorded in Europe -(2003 European heat wave, Wikipedia).





FACT: Yes, atmospheric analysis going back almost %26gt;800,000 years%26lt; irrefutibly shows periods of global warming and cooling on Earth. ALSO, that neither the RATE of temperature increase nor levels of greenhouse gasses have EVER been as high as they now are in that entire time -(see: European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica, ...and Greenland, and the Arctic, and.., hundreds of other historic atmospheric studies -look it up.).





Did I mention that the massive acceleration in rate and massive "jump" in gasses both match perfectly with our industrial revolution, i.e. dumping oil-based greenhouse pollutants everywhere?





FACT: The highest level of CO2 (greenhouse gas in the atmosphere) in almost a million years was 270 ppb. It's now over 375 ppb The levels massivly "jumped" 61 points just since 1960!- (Greenhouse effect, Anthropogenic greenhouse effect, Wikipedia).





SIMPLIFIED:


Yes, there have been other "warming" periods in Earth's history. But in almost a MILLION years the Earth has NEVER warmed as FAST as the last 40 years. And we're gonna get a LOT hotter than it's ever gotten before...





What can we do?





1. STOP dumping greenhouse gasses! Duh'!





2. Get off the freakin OIL! Our world and economies will survive. The only thing that'll "collapse" is oil industries and the Bush family's "crude" bank accounts... (Have we really put an "oil man" in charge and then started crying about wars in the oil-rich middle east and problems with the environment? Oh, that's right, we didn't actually elect him the first time around...)





3. Get on to solar, wind, geothermal, wave, hydro and any other non polluting, non oil-dependent power sources we can. We even have the technology in our hands! Why get into wars and screw the planet just to stay hooked on old tech when we already have the new here and now?





4. Seriously fund research into carbon recapture and de-salination of water technologies. We're seriously gonna need them.





5. Get CORPORATIONS out of our HUMAN affairs. They were supposed to be money making tools, not political participators in our government. Corporations have only two goals: make profit and limit liability. The bigger they get the more they do so by removing limits to profit (such as laws and bad public images) and limit their liability by erroding worker/consumer protections and rights.





Why are such "legal entities" participating in and influencing a government that's supposed to be by and for, "We the people" anyway?





Ban all lobbying, campaign contributing, and media influence of "for profit" companies and organizations supported by them.





then...





watch the world change.

Want to know global warming Facts and what can be done?
There's a saying.





"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)





So, to prevent the triumph of evil (in this case the prevention of political action, which is the goal of the oil and coal companies and the denialists) everyone who cares about the welfare of the biosphere must do all they can to make themselves and their opinions heard.





a) Write to your representatives at every level of government.


b) Nag your relatives, work colleagues, employers and friends to inform themselves about the subject and follow your lead.


c) Thumb-down anyone on here who posts a denialist argument (if you are unsure that a particular argument is fallacious, check out the link below) and go through the questions in voting making sure none of their ignorant crapola ends up as a best answer.


d) In the first instance, pledge to offset every tonne of carbon you are responsible for via a verifiable trading scheme such as the ETS, using a charitable offsetting company like Pure Trust (see link)


e) Find out every way you can reduce your carbon footprint (there's plenty of information out there) and cut it to the bone. If you are pledged to pay up for anything that is not cut, then reducing your footprint will save you that money, as well as the costs involved in excessive consumption of energy and goods.
Reply:Global Warming is a LIE promoted by whom?? check out WHO Is pushing this... and you will find the answer.





Conservatives KNOW its a lie. There are just as many studies showing its FALSE as they can drum up that its real. The earth has been changing constantly, heating and cooling up for years.
Reply:Go buy some Al Gore DVD and give them out for free on street corner.
Reply:Climate change is natural.....it's been going on for years.





The only opinion I have is to recycle as much as possible and quit littering.


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