Alright, folks, let's wrap up this big burrito. There's always too much material to cover, but too small a space to cram it in. First let me remind you that there are two extremes to the global warming spectrum: minimal effects all the way up to extremely major end-of-the-world catastrophic effects. But it's quite possible -- and logical -- that what will finally happen is somewhere in the middle -- but I don't want to take any chances. There is still the probability that things could get pretty bad -- but if you're the kind of person that enjoys living in a sauna 24/7, then perhaps everything will be hunky-dory after all.
A Minority of Skeptics
Skeptics have been trying to turn the global warming issue into a mere theory instead of a state of fact. Fortunately, skeptics are in the minority, Bioelectric impedance but they are trying everything they can to propagate false ideas that global warming is a fluke, in hopes that people will buy it, so that their numbers will increase. But if skeptics increase like CO2 levels have been, we're done for! Then once they become a majority, and everyone becomes uncaring and complacent, the skeptics will have their way, but then we will all eventually die off, along with all other living things -- that is if things do get out of hand. But so far the Moral Environment Majority is going to be working their butts off trying to crank the heat down. But the skeptics are causing a lot of ridicule and persecution upon the hard-working scientists, and some reports say that certain scientists have lost their jobs, because they chose to do the hard work to save the environment instead of sticking their heads in a hole in the ground -- which is what the skeptics do.
The Greedy Shall Not Inherit the Earth!
Looking the other way is what wealthy business owners and economists and certain jaded politicians want us to do. Such people would rather make more money than care about the critical condition of the Earth. These greedy hoodlums have chosen a rise in economy and a lowering of environmental standards, which will only create a rise in global temperature. The economy is viewed as more important than the safety of our environment. The economists' greed could lead to our self-annihilation. So you see, there are stubborn skeptics that don't believe in global warming, then there are the greedy rich who flat-out don't care; perhaps the latter is the more dangerous of the two groups. In their eyes the protection of the environment is detrimental to the economy, especially if it means they have to stop manufacturing automobiles, or close down all facilities that cause pollution and global warming in general. And let's not forget those pesky slash-and burn-farmers -- they should be slashed and then burned!
The fact is, we the people have the basic knowledge that will solve this global warming problem. The real problem is getting enough people to act on it, to do something about it.
My question is, if the meek shall inherit the Earth, will the greedy be disinherited?
More on those Expert Experts
Those skeptical experts with so much expertise, who either disbelieve that the Earth is in crisis or don't care about it, have proclaimed their own views, because they are totally disconnected to the critical problem at hand, which involves the human-caused rising temperatures across the planet. Although some scientists uphold these contrary theories, a larger percentage of scientists still believe the problem is human in origin. Yes, some causes are natural, as suggested by the fluctuating climate cycles, but the majority of the problem is definitely caused by mankind's negligence.
Certain stubborn experts say that although the explainable causes of global warming are primarily due to natural means, and secondarily due to mankind activities, that nothing serious is going to happen down the road. My response to that is -- how naïve can they get?
As I've mentioned before, the Earth has been gradually leaving the Little Ice Age, which fell between the 16th and 19th centuries, primarily focusing on the northern hemisphere, so this was a climate cycles of 400 years (although some experts say this occurred between the 13th and 17th centuries. Can't they get their facts straight?) The question remains, is this due to a natural change in temperatures, or is there definitely a connection between rising temperatures and the rise of the Industrial Revolution? Also, experts say that temperatures could be rising due to variances in solar irradiance due to the modulation of cloud cover. Other natural causes are said to be from volcanoes that have erupted over time, because this activity also produces carbon dioxide, and has a definite warming effect in the atmosphere.
Other experts refer to something called the "urban heat island effect," which means that the temperatures of all large cities across the globe are higher than their surrounding areas. Although some advocates claim that this effect is one of the causes of global warming, other experts say this affects the global temperature very minimally and is virtually insignificant. If anything, these are just diversions to keep us from focusing on the growing CO2 levels.
There are other lame excuses and rumors that people spew out, but I don't think they deserve credence or our undivided attention. Therefore, according to these ne'er-do-wells, we can't do anything about it. So let's get back to focusing on the economy, folks! Let's forget about the environment and just make money! Let's get back to driving our cars and running our factories, spewing poisons into the air, burning our major forests down, and releasing megatons of CO2 into the atmosphere! Let's all have fun now, and let our children suffer later! We can all live now so that others will die later! Let's all have that "So freaking what?" attitude and forget about the critical state of our precious planet!
Or we can get real, we can get serious, and we can get active, and together, we can do something about it! But we have to join together to do it!
References:
EPA, Climate Change: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/
An Inconvenient Truth, with Al Gore, a documentary (DVD)
Deforestation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation
Vanishing Islands: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2000/04/0428_islands.html
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