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Now, I have to come clean on this. I'm a skeptic on global warming. Always have been. The worst that can happen is the planet becomes uninhabitable for 6+ billion people all at once, but with massive reductions in human population, the ecosphere would recover pretty damn quickly, and the fact is, the planet has been far warmer for tens of millions of years at a stretch since long before we came along.
So, I present another view on global warming (it's from The Telegraph, which by US standards is a conservative bias, but the author makes all of his references and calulations available as a PDF for anyone in the world to download right there).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/05/nosplit/nwarm05.xml
My thing with global warming is the minor fact that ~70% of the planet is covered in water, which is still the magic molecule. It's an acid, it's a base, it absorbs heat, it moves heat, it dissipates heat, it's a buffer, it's a catalyst...in short, it's fucking amazing stuff, and it's more prevalent than stupid people in evangelical churches.
Now, deforestation, overfishing, polluting, these things I have real problems with, as they directly affect my quality of life and are just stupid things to do that will make the planet uninhabitable (note to BigCorp Inc: poisoning your customers is not going to increase sales...in fact, you might notice the opposite if you pay attention). Not to mention just plain ugly. I'm all about aesthetics.
So, I'm curious what my faithful readers think of the homey from the UK's take on this issue.
So, I present another view on global warming (it's from The Telegraph, which by US standards is a conservative bias, but the author makes all of his references and calulations available as a PDF for anyone in the world to download right there).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/05/nosplit/nwarm05.xml
My thing with global warming is the minor fact that ~70% of the planet is covered in water, which is still the magic molecule. It's an acid, it's a base, it absorbs heat, it moves heat, it dissipates heat, it's a buffer, it's a catalyst...in short, it's fucking amazing stuff, and it's more prevalent than stupid people in evangelical churches.
Now, deforestation, overfishing, polluting, these things I have real problems with, as they directly affect my quality of life and are just stupid things to do that will make the planet uninhabitable (note to BigCorp Inc: poisoning your customers is not going to increase sales...in fact, you might notice the opposite if you pay attention). Not to mention just plain ugly. I'm all about aesthetics.
So, I'm curious what my faithful readers think of the homey from the UK's take on this issue.
