Comments on: The environment? It’s as muddy as earth

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:28:39 +0000

The only hot air is in Anita’s reply. Having any quantity of PhD’s cannot prove or disprove climate change. The statistics for climate change are dubious, and as we all know from recent revalations, the data is not holding up under scrutiny.

Something is happening on the planet, but there’s just no way to definitively prove man is causing it. No scientist can say what has been happening over billions of years; our time on the planet is just too short. No amount of websites with the word “climate” and “fact” in them, PhDs, uppercase words saying OBVIOUSLY, or nobel prizes etc, can overcome that fact.

Man is definitely polluting and pillaging the planet, but warming it up and causing climate change is light years away from definitive proof. As I said before, if you read post #1, the planet has been both hotter and colder when man was not even on the planet. Perhaps our planet is going through changes that are regular but which we have not yet encountered?

By: sophia

sophia — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:34:33 +0000

http://www.climatechangefacts.info/

no need to get so angry with anyone eh? you are just heating up the climate… have a read.
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By: anita

anita — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:46:35 +0000

Dear Fred. You OBVIOUSLY don’t have a PhD. And you don’t NEED a PhD to notice that something is happening on this planet that has never before happened in such frequency, not in our lifetime anyway. Unless you’re prepared to do a PhD yourself to prove all those who tell you otherwise wrong on their assumptions that the world is heating up I’d suggest you stop spouting such uninformed sh**! (the international panel on Climate Change consists of a long line-up of scientists who do have PhDs and know that global warming is a reality!)

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:12:16 +0000

The world of our childrens’ children will be a vastly different place. I think it will be a world of less travel -less air travel for sure, indeed the UK just said yesterday that ‘train must replace plane’.

As the oil runs out (in say 50 years) there will be more wars, more confrontations, and more drilling in nature reserves that will further ruin what is left of the planet’s untouched lands – this is happening now already of course.

Petrol cars will give way to hybrid vehicles. Cars will become luxury items and travel itself will be a luxury.

There will of course be a lot more nuclear power stations and all the hell they bring with them. There will also be more natural disasters because of the world’s changing climate patterns. I can also see more draconian laws about having offspring. All of this is obvious – it has to happen because the world’s resources are finite and man has evolved to become lazy and greedy and doesn’t care about his planet. That goes for all of us – we do care but we don’t act en masse. Change will only come through a massive catastrophe, when we are forced to change.

Back to the burros we go…

By: simon

simon — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:40:36 +0000

So, what are we all going to do? Stop driving cars and walk everywere? Have fewer kids? What exactly does “live a little more in tune with nature and give consideration to the needs of wildlife flora and fauna and lessen the impact of consumerism and the throw-away society” mean? It sounds good, but are we just paying lip-service or are we doing something?
By the way I, too, am not convinced that we have to do anything or, if we do, that it’s not too late already.

By: Max Crowe

Max Crowe — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:49:22 +0000

Well Fred, for once I agree with you. I think the only thing we can do is to try and live a little more in tune with nature and give consideration to the needs of wildlife flora and fauna and lessen the impact of consumerism and the throw-away society. I think only then can we live in harmony with the Earth of which we are a part.

It may not save the world, if indeed the world really IS in trouble but it would make living here a more pleasurable experience as a human being.

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:16:40 +0000

Good article, and useful to see the other side of the coin. However, the article does not go far enough. People need to be aware that Climate Change is a theory, and only a theory. All of the scientists projections are just that, projections and extrapolations, not actualy reality. People would be wise to investigate both sides of the argument before coming to a conclusion. Man is affecting the planet, but is he responsible for Climate Change? That is simply not proven, and it is getting boring keep on seeing every natural disaster attributed to Climate Change. The planet has been both warmer and colder than it has been during man’s time on the planet (which coincidentally, is like 2 seconds of time in the Earth’s total existence.) Sure, the ice caps are melting, perhaps they did that before man was on the planet? You don’t need a PhD to realise this.