Posted by
Steve on Thursday, February 02, 2012 11:47:57 AM
One thing that makes me wonder about people is those that buy vehicles in order to save the planet from global warming. For anyone to think that their actions in purchasing a vehicle will somehow “save” the planet is ludicrous. The actions of any one person will have no effect on the global climate. The actions of any one state will have no impact on the global climate. The actions of any one country will have very little impact on the global climate. The reason for that is the earth is huge and we as humans are rather small. Our impact is rather small, generally. There are industries that make a lot of pollution. There are areas that collect pollution, like Los Angeles, that enable a lot of people to produce enough harmful emissions to actually cause problems. But those are almost always local in nature.
Scientists that study the climate do not understand why the climate gets colder or warmer over time. We know that it does. We know some of the things that impact the climate. But, when we plug that information into a computer model, the result is wildly inaccurate. That indicates that our knowledge of global climate is still rather rudimentary. Until we have a greater knowledge of the global climate, we are at its mercy.
Whenever I get into discussions with people over global warming, they almost instantly start talking about pollution. That is a rather distantly related topic to global warming. Pollution may have some impact on global warming, we are just unsure exactly the impact it has. Pollution in and of itself will not impact the global climate in any way. Extreme pollution could impact the climate if you could enlarge the area enough to have some impact. But, generally pollution and the climate are not related. That is always a difficult point to get across to people that have consumed the global warming Kool-Aid and do not want to allow me to win any points.
On the radio this morning, Barry Young from KFYI said that the Chevy Volt looks better than the Prius. But the Prius does not catch fire. I have no problem with people buying those vehicles if they really want them. If you want an electric vehicle that looks good and catches fire, the Chevy Volt is for you. If you want an ugly box that gets good mileage, the Prius is your vehicle. If you are trying to save the world, try increasing the freedom of everyone and you would see the world improve dramatically. Buying anything to save the world is a lost cause. Nothing you can buy can help save the world. The impact from anything you could buy is so small that your attempt is worthless.
Also, the global warming community has been completely and totally discredited in the scientific community. The only “scientists” that support global warming either make their living from supposedly studying it or are politically motivated and have no interest in science. People that are scientifically up to date reject global warming as a hoax. In our science department we have one holdout. He is politically motivated and on this issue is not interested in the science. He is extremely far to the left and is not interested in any discussion that could possibly change his mind. Even if you show him that the leaders of the global warming community do not believe in global warming, he still puts his hands over his ears. I suspect that he will wake up one of these days when the textbooks we buy start reflecting the reality of no global warming. Until then, he is lost in his global warming world.
The textbooks we buy come from authors that are supposed to be up to date on their science. Since they are slow to adopt the realities of global warming being a hoax, I have my doubts on their scientific accuracy. In my mind, any textbook printed in late 2011 or later should reflect that global warming has been discredited. Those textbooks have not hit the shelves yet. The hoax was really exposed 3-4 years ago, so the textbooks should at least reflect that reality. That they have not reflected reality makes me question their goals.