by metatron 4 Replies latest jw friends
See:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204301404577171531838421366.html
The Wall Street Journal publishes an editorial signed by 16 scientists in which they criticize global warming panic.
You don't have to be religious to love 'gloom n' doom'. Call the above 'global lukewarmism".
metatron
Turn the question around slightly and ask the 16 what and how can we address pollution and garbage. The 'plastic ocean' in the North Pacific Gyre is now larger than the State of Texas and growing. Most urban areas have reached or overfilled their Landfills, in Orange and San Diego County, Ca. we reached maximum capacity on our Landfills 10 years ago. Shoot a thermal-heat scanner at those sites and see what it looks like.
designs is correct, as usual, in pointing out the ongoing problem of plastic pollution.
But metatron was specifically bringing attention to the letter published in the Wall Street Journal yesterday that very convincingly describes the development and motives of the Global Warming industry and it's lack of scientific basis. Check out the link and read the letter. It would be worth a look. I read it yesterday and clippped it as soon as a read it. (Maybe I'll send it to my good friend Besty)
I don't know if the moniker "Global Warming' was one of those sexy titles meant to get attention to real environmental problems or if its one of those things where there is a measure of truth to it but doesn't fully address all data on the earth's warming and cooling cycles.
I can tell you growing up in Southern California back in the 50's we had snow by Thanksgiving every year and fog so thick you had to walk in front of your car and a forest that ranged from Glendale to Mentone. The snow cycle began to change radically in the early 60s and the fogs were nearly gone by the late 60s, look at some time-line shots of the Angeles National Forest and San Bernardino National Forests from 1950 and 2012 and ask 'where did all the trees go'.
One thing you notice on those aerial photos is that 'LA' is one continuous city from Santa Monica to San Bernardino and to San Diego south.
All the pollution you describe is fixable. In Europe, plastics are being created - and used in manufacture - that are biodegradable. Much of the landfill issue is just a problem of bad governance, with a resource being wasted. Why fill the landscape with buried trash that could pollute groundwater when it could be burned for energy, with reasonable safeguards as to airborne pollution?
Over and over and over, we keep running into this self deception that we will harm the earth permanently, when in fact, the earth has experienced vastly worse disasters than we can imagine. Scientists can tell you that 90+% of all the species that ever lived are gone and that lakes all over the world were blasted into place by asteroids.
I don't like pollution but I would like going back to primitive living even less. We need to let go of "religious" obsessions about the environment and deal with it in a moderate, rational manner.
metatron
