Comment Thinly veiled exercise in social engineering (Score 1) 923
The fact that the debate keeps renaming itself from global warming to climate change
underscores the fact that the concept itself is ambiguous.
Ice caps and glaciers have been melting since the end of the last ice age
about 10,000 years ago. What caused that ice to stop and the massive ice sheet
created, to melt and recede? I expect the naturally occuring cycles in the
planet's geology and meteorology.
Never in the angst and handwringing about this misunderstood thing, does
anyone really address the affect of the sun. A several thousand degree thermonuclear reaction in space itself capable of cycles and fluctuations with solar flares, sun spots and other variations in that star's weather.
And we're about a half degree rise in tempurature ?
Indeed Mars's ice caps melt and freeze with some regularity.
So, what is the crisis ?
I expect man's inability to adapt to his surroundings is the real crisis.
That thousands of people, living in a city between a lake and river, seven feet
below see level, in a hurricane zone, with four days warnings of a severe hurricane
and did nothing but wait, proves this.
Perhaps nature was only trying to cull the human herd ?
If there is a sane solution, it will come from the market place and not a
bunch of politicians bent on spending billions of dollars not their own
to make people feel bad becasue they live a comfortable lifestyle. This
is the crisis as the ne'er-do-wells who run the government, being lobbied
by the equally wealthy "environmental" lobby see taxpayers as a rich source
of money and this contrivance of a crisis as way to influence, or coerce,the
way people behave and act.