"Destroy" - All Humans
Oct 16, 11:04 PM
“I’m not one to attribute every man – activity of man to the changes in the climate. There is something to be said also for man’s activities, but also for the cyclical temperature changes on our planet” – Sarah Palin
The above quote, while incoherent dribble, indicates the stance of the Republican VP candidate on global warming (as well as her apparent lack of formal education). Now I’m well aware that I can’t expect someone who might be 2nd in charge of the most powerful country in the world to be able to put a sentence together properly let alone understand the science behind climate change, however it got me thinking about how this ignorance about global warming continues to persist.
It occurred to me that there was a fundamental flaw in the argument of any one who says that global warming isn’t or even “might not be” the result of human activities.
If any of these non-believers were asked what caused the hole in the ozone layer, I would hazard a guess that almost everyone would say, something along the lines of humans and CFCs.
Now that strikes me as some what of a contradiction. CFCs were invented in the 1930’s and banned in the 1980’s. All it took was 50 years of CFCs and we managed to punch a hole the size of Antarctica into the earth’s protective layer. Humans have an amazing destructive capacity.
How can anyone then turn around and say that 200 years of pumping pollution, CO2, methane, NO2 into the atmosphere will not have a significant impact on the earth? I truly do not understand their thought processes.
Perhaps people don’t want it to be their fault so they can keep going along as they are. Or perhaps it is because climate change can’t be summarised in a nice chemical equation like the ozone problem can. Well maybe not…..but here are some equations that might get you thinking.
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