Second not as pathetic as setting all of your Q and A to "private" and hiding your contact info on your profile
mjmayer1882007-12-13T11:23:37Z
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Excellent point!
There is allot of evidence to indicate that variations in solar output are a major cause of global warming. These studies also indicate that global warming may cause in increase in green house gases, not the other way around.
Obviously, there is nothing wrong with reducing pollution. But before we commit billions of dollars to the cause, we need to know we have chosen the right cause.
We should certainly all be able to agree that we don't have all the facts.
We don't have all the facts when it comes to the theory of Evolution or Gravity, either (physicists have never observed 'gravitons'). However, we have enough evidence to support these theories for everyone to believe them.
The same is true of anthropogenic global warming. The theory is not perfect, but it's by far the most accurate theory in explaining the observational data.
There was a global warming in the time of the dinosaurs before the last ice age and it wasn't man made so how do people explain this? I live in an area that gets fairly cold during winter but I have found fossils of tropical plants and flowers in the rocks where I live and they couldn't have possibly have grown in this climate.
We all won't agree on anything, to include the time of day. But at least a majority of us should be able to conclude that we have not all the facts, and using up resources and polluting the environment is a much greater concern that we actually know we can impact.
As far as I am concerned, the jury is still out. I, unlike most of my liberal counterparts, refuse to jump on the "global warming" bandwagon. That doesn't mean that striving to be "green" is a bad thing, though.
Interesting story. It explains one small chapter in a much larger book, though.
As is usually the case, liberals say one thing, conservatives say another, and the truth rests somewhere in the middle.