Monday, November 24, 2008

Global Warming?

I think there is something missing in the whole debate about Global Warming...there are some things that seem logical and tend to support a conclusion, and other things that look like they are being ignored, fabricated, or blown out of proportion.
One might ask, why ignore/fabricate anything when it comes to science? Well, it might not fit in the current political climate, or it isn't popular among those with power at the moment. Science changes over time, and in some cases it isn't because things have actually changed, or things are true today but weren't true yesterday...

Ok, so what am I getting at?
It is generally agreed that the climate of our little blue ball is changing. They experts, however, are now moving away from "Global Warming" to "Global Climate Change". Which makes sense, but what is this change, and how did it happen, and is it detrimental?

Well, the answer to that is different depending on who you are talking to...Greenhouse Gases (CO2, H2O, etc), solar activity, natural cycle, and people are some of the causes given.

Hmmm...

I recently came across an article (that, strangely, isn't there any more) that claimed that the vegetation biomass on earth is growing, not shrinking.
I would like to point out that plants like CO2, warmth, and water. With all these things "more abundant" now than before, it isn't a real shock to me that there would be more plants.
Now, if we have more plants, we have more O2 because the plants convert CO2 to O2, which also means less CO2. This cycle should continue until a peak at some point, where the balance is tipped the other way, and the plant's need for CO2 has grown greater than the CO2 production... the CO2 levels will decline...and we go back down the other direction on this cycle, and in this debate.

Now here is the funny part...

Once we start the decline of CO2 in the atmosphere, the planet will cool off a bit, just natural, right?
Then a bunch of people will jump out of the woodwork and proclaim "Global Cooling" and they will warn of the imminent ice age...

Only, you will never hear anything about how we (people) actually affect the whole scheme of things...instead, the governments will draft plans and spend money to fight something that will fix itself, given time.

I am not saying that we shouldn't recycle, reduce CO2 emissions, or any other good thing...this is, after all, our home. What I am saying is that we can do all these good things without creating mass panic and hysteria and lauding the "worst case scenarios" ... But then, what else would MSNBC have to cry about?

http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=569586&p=1
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2008/06/biomass_boosting.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_controversy

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