Good news stories about global warming

[beak]

Wonder how long it will be before the US coastal areas are affected.

 

[Omran]

 

[BaronRenfrew]

Woohoo! It's hot in here. (I finally posted something with staying power.)

Alright, now that I have your attention, we can all agree on a few things. We made a mess, now we have to clean it up (I learned that in kindergarten.)

On water bottles, the bottles are made of oil, in India, shipped here, and filled w tap water. I've heard that every bottle of water represents a third of a bottle of oil. And there's evidence that plastic bottles left in sunlight break down and release chemicals into the water that we drink and is causing cancer. What does McDonalds do? They have a kickass water filtration system that is basically an active charcoal filter. Brita anyone?

On Theory: smoking causing cancer was a theory 50 years ago, and after 40 years of evidence, it was only "proven" as being true after a tobacco company employee blew the whistle on studies undertaken by the companies that they buried that smoking did indeed cause cancer. That said I do enjoy a good cigar. Nicotein kills cancer cells (look it up). After WWll tobacco companies put tar (oil) in the cigarettes so they would burn when not being actively smoked (light it , go to bathroom, return its gone; light a cigar, go to bathroom, return and light it again). Hey George Burns lived to 99. Life insurance companies did not consider you a smoker if you smoked a pipe or cigar until recently. My theory: smoking paper and tar gives you cancer.

My post is about good news stories: please post one.

the magic of plants: where sunflowers were planted around Chernobyl the radiation disappeared. It appears that the bacteria that live in the root balls of the flowers EAT radiation.

Spider plants signicantly reduce indoor air pollution; they consume it.

 

[Mahonri]

Rest easy Gulf Coast. Algore has taken this slide out of his power point.

Global Warming

 

[PurpleChicken]

I thought we were not supposed to discuss religion on BYC.

PC, Conservative Environmentalist

 

[PurpleChicken]

I can't hold back here.

"Climate Change" and "Global Warming" are two of the biggest scams
in human history. Now if people want to believe in it than so be it. It's
your minds.

The biggest problem with these concepts are they distract the masses
from real environmental issues. As much as 50% of our kids have asthma,
half our rivers and streams have 5000x the amount of chemical
contamination than the EPA allows, polution in destroying ocean
environments everywhere, etc....

The good news? The USA is doing a better job than it has in the past.
Things are improving here.

The bad news? China and other countries are raping the planet in ways
never seen. Don't get me started on Russia.


The Big Picture: Humans are but a speck on the planet and but a speck
on the timeline of history. Whatever we do now the planet will correct
and whatever we do now will be, and has been dwarfed by calaclysms
in history and the future.

Yes God, however you all choose to understand him, did give us this
planet. How we treat it and the life on it are reflections of our love of
God and our love of our fellowmen.

 

[mjdtexan]

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Thats all I was saying. For sure we are polluting. And, Vice President Gore was not the one to bring it up at all. And, he is being kind of hyprocritical (sp?) flying around almost daily in private jets telling you to walk or take the bus, owns multiple homes. Follow the money on climate change, guess who is selling carbon credits (large scam by the way), Vice President Gore. And to be sure, Gore was calling it Global Warming. It got quietly changed to "climate change".

Yes, we do need to clean our act up, we just dont need the media and Vice President Gore to spread falsehoods. I submit to you that some of yall who are so upset at some of our "arrogance" are just upset that Vice President Gore and the like got caught with their pants down on the issue.

 

[scbatz33]

I'm gonna throw in my 2 cents worth.....

First of all I believe we should take care of the planet. However, I am not a "tree hugging liberal" who believes we should only eat roots, wear leaves and drive hybrids. Nor do I believe that if someone doesn't do those things they are "killing the planet" and should be chastised, criticized and treated like a leper.

The fundamental problem with this debate is that the people in the "global warming/cooling/climate change" camp (I do find it odd that the name for this "crisis" changes more often than Al Gore changes his socks) some how feel it is necessary to constantly berate those of us who question the "science". I have never been a sheep who just blindly follows what I am "told" by the "experts". I like to actually read and figure things out for myself. If I chose to do my own research and base my opinions on my findings that doesn't make me "anti" anything - except maybe status quo.

And, just because some guy with more money than me says I should recycle and not burn fossil fuels (all the while he is doing just what he said I shouldn't) doesn't mean I'm just gonna say "yes sir" and fall in line. It makes me question all these "famous" environmentalists who don't seem to practice what they preach. Hypocrisy ALWAYS makes me question motives.

Do I think the climate is changing - yes like it has for millions of years before us. After all we did have an ice age, the dinosaurs did go extinct. However, I don't recall any paleontologist discovering a Hummer next to the Tyrannosaurus Rex bones.

When we try to "fix" things more often than not we screw them up worse. Look at the mess the National Parks keeps creating in YellowStone when they try to "fix" the animal population problem. There never would have been a population problem if we hadn't tried to "fix" the predator problem.

Fire ants in the south "problem" brought on by people trying to "fix" a different insect invasion problem, which was brought on when people imported non-native species to control an beetle "problem".

The point here is that we more often than not make more of a mess than the mess we were trying to "fix" in the first place.

Lastly, I believe that there will never be a complete agreement on this topic. It's like peace in the middle east, religion, abortion and a hundred other topics that are "controversial". Further, I think it is completely counter productive to call names, insinuate people are uneducated and/or that they don't care, or to throw out any other insult to people's intelligence, back ground, political affiliation whether blatantly or otherwise, just because they do not agree with your point of view.

Just because I don't agree with your world view doesn't mean I don't know what I'm talking about. It doesn't mean my values, opinions, ideas are not valid. We, as a whole tend to get so "dug in" in our opinions that we immediately discount someone else's view if they don't jump on the wagon right away. Sometimes we have to agree to disagree and then just walk away..........

 

[Buster]

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[Kesta]

i am not gonna say anything regarding how much this thread wants to set me on a rant! alls ima say is that al gore is an idiot! for all u gore followers u believe whatever u wanna! and do you think that the dinosaurs caused global warming?????? it was hotter when they were around than it is now! the earth goes through natural heating and cooling phases! we were going through a warming phase and now we r in a cooling phase! if anyone dont believe that i will say this! it snowed in houston texas this december! i should know! last time a checked warming does not mean it snows near the gulf of mexico!