Global Warming Will Kill Us All! Again!!

If you all don't watch the Colbert Report, his guest on September 10th was Bjørn Lomborg. Bjørn explained how global warming is a problem, but not the most important one. His best example was this: Scientists explain that because the Earth's temperature is rising, mosquitoes will flourish causing Malaria cases to rise as well. But if we were to spend only a fraction of the money we would have spent on global warming we would save 30,000 to every 1 we saved through bringing homeostasis to the Earth's climate.

During the interview Bjørn also explained with some degree of difficulty through Stephen's shenanigans that the Earth's temperature has been rising for quite some time, even before the Model T Ford came to existence. He's selling a book, which I will probably not read, called "Cool It! The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming" which calls for us to keep global warming in mind but to focus mainly on issues that are of much more importance.

http://www.amazon.com/Cool-Skeptical-Environmentalists-Global-Warming/dp/0307266923
If you're interested.

Oh.. and according to him the polar bears are fine.

Global Warming Will Kill Us All

Ok, ok. We get it. Go Green. Well I agree. But, it's starting to get ridiculous with all the coverage in the news.

I have a feed to Discovery News through Gmail and global warming is becoming increasingly more difficult to stomach. Perhaps there's some truth to the fact that the impact humans have on the Earth is starting to show. But we're not being told all the facts here. We are being scared into going green. Fear Mongering is a big factor after "An Inconvenient Truth" came out. Every report dealing with weather, animal behavior and even wildfires seems to have some mention of global warming in it.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/articles/2007/07/04/1183351245960.html

This article just perturbs me a bit, it's pretty interesting but they just had to tag that last sentence onto the end. Because ice melted, it is evidence of global warming. Ok, right. I think they are really splitting hairs here though. I mean is it not true that the Earth used to be very warm, then the Ice Age came and then it started to warm up again? Well, there is actual evidence that the Earth's climate is still cooler than it once was by evidence of certain plants that would only grow in hot weather that were found in ice that suggested that the temperature was warmer then than it is now. Wouldn't it stand to reason that the Earth will inevitably go through some sort of drastic cycle again? If that's true then we should be more afraid of the Earth's natural behavior than we are fearful of its behavior by way of our actions.

Yes, greenhouse gases could be detrimental to the environment. The funny thing is, one of the leading causes of greenhouse gases is in fact bovine belches. Sounds odd right? Aside from humans, how can one of God's Earthly creatures be the demise of the Earth us? Does the sheer volume of cows that we have, which would otherwise be determined by predators vs. prey if we hadn't domesticated them, mean that we are the ones at fault in this regard as well? We have to eat, and it has to be meat.

Don't get me wrong. I think it is very important to do what one can to be environmentally conscious. Recycle, ride a bike short distances instead of driving your car, use florescent bulbs, drink tap water instead of bottled, plant trees. There's a lot of things that can be done. But there are no quick solutions. But do we always have to be scared that something is going to kill us? So what if we end up with ocean front property in Nevada.