Quote Originally Posted by Gatekeeper777
What I find ODD is most of the world accepts this as fact....
We are talking about something that has the potential to erase ALL life on earth in less then 100 years. i think it should be looked at it objectively and NOT with a government stance....
i suppose it all depends on who you listen to.
sure there are many who believe we are baking ourselves out of existence, but i think you will find that it is not the overwhelming majority you have been led to believe. there are many who believe that this is just a cyclic weather change, influenced only slightly by mankind. there are, as well, many who think we still don't have enough data to go running around screaming "the sky is falling!", i believe you will find this is the actual majority. i also believe you will find that only the most rabid doomsdayers would give you that 100 year deadline.

as for who to believe....

all of the parties involved seem to have their own agendas and i think it's important to look at who the player really are.
you have:
  • non- and semi-industrialized countries trying to gain an economic toehold through scare tactics.
  • over-industrialized countries, frightened by the massive amounts of waste they generate, trying to hold back the clock.
  • countries near the arctic circle, fearful that shifting ice packs will damage their infrastructure and franticly trying to find someone to blame.
not to mention a thousand other groups, from tree huggers to run of the mill anarchists. all of them jumping on the band wagon in hopes of getting reparations or maybe just their 15 minutes.

within the us it's not just the bushites and big business that are paying scientists to help out their point of view. the scientific community if rife with greed and bias and many are more than willing to turn theory into fact in return for grants, cushy positions in academia or just to forward their own personal views. common sense is no more common among those who live in ivory towers than it it is amongst the plebes and the rush to be in the forefront of any new scientific wave can become all consuming for those who spend their years in such lofty circles.

i also think it is important to remember that man is a part of nature too. though we should be mindful of the needs of the planet over which we seem to have taken stewardship, we should not rush to dampen the advances we need to survive and flourish at the first hint of danger. we should, instead, nudge those technologies into more ecologically friendly areas and not just stamp them out entirely. that would be cutting off our nose to spite our face and we are ugly enough as it is.
delusionsofNORMALity Reviewed by delusionsofNORMALity on . Al gores movie....continued Ok guys i really want to talk about this, latewood didnt agree with my comments and some others didnt agree with gk. but non the less i still belive that the only reason Al gore put this movie together was to gain votes. Which makes his points pretty unstable. Now, we all know that the world is in some way warming, but it has been for the past millions of years, we had an ice age whats to stop an heat age, Really? There has been no factual evidence that global warming is here. However i do Rating: 5