Cool. I shared a video from this guy on @drakos post as well concerning this topic of climate change. This is my favorite climate change study/commentary. The video I shared is very non-partisan and not filled with a great load of academic speak or political overtones. It presents facts.
I have read a great many of the comments and information shared. Some are very thoughtful comments and I have learned a great deal. Some comments have been just mean and insulting, contributing very little to the conversation; I guess due to frustration and preconceived notions.
The climate is changing and has been changing for billions, millions, thousands and hundreds of years. I have seen the climate change in my short time on earth as has everyone else. The bottom line is, weather patterns have been changing, period.
The whole CO2 (carbon dioxide) thing, which many commentators kept posting about on @drakos post? Most of us get it, as does any 11 year old child that has been paying attention in science class.
CO2 is good for plant growth. It is an essential ingredient in the process of photosynthesis (how organisms, like plants and algae, make food for themselves using sunlight and H20 [water]). Then these organisms fart oxygen (O). Thank you plants and algae for flatulating, we appreciate it!
Now CO (carbon monoxide)? Not good. Don't believe me? Put a car in a confined space and run the engine with the windows down for a couple of hours and let me know how that works out for you. I remember smog (smoke and fog), which was still a problem back in the early '80s, when I was stationed in California with the military. I also experienced a type of smog when I served in the Middle East during the Persian Gulf War as the oil fields were set on fire. Part of my lung is calcified. This is a common malady experienced by a number of Persian Gulf Veterans. No worries, it is not serious the VA tells me.
G-D grant the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Long before modern medicine, there were terrible diseases that killed children. Polio, scarlet fever, black plague, malaria, measles, small pox, etc. Due to medical (scientific) intervention, these diseases have been fought with a great deal of success. Should we not look to preserve human life the same way with the changes in the climate? As the fellow who hosts Answers with Joe summarizes in the video I shared,
We're not going to destroy the world, the world is going to destroy us.
I, for one, am not going to help that process speed along.
Cool. I shared a video from this guy on @drakos post as well concerning this topic of climate change. This is my favorite climate change study/commentary. The video I shared is very non-partisan and not filled with a great load of academic speak or political overtones. It presents facts.
I have read a great many of the comments and information shared. Some are very thoughtful comments and I have learned a great deal. Some comments have been just mean and insulting, contributing very little to the conversation; I guess due to frustration and preconceived notions.
The climate is changing and has been changing for billions, millions, thousands and hundreds of years. I have seen the climate change in my short time on earth as has everyone else. The bottom line is, weather patterns have been changing, period.
The whole CO2 (carbon dioxide) thing, which many commentators kept posting about on @drakos post? Most of us get it, as does any 11 year old child that has been paying attention in science class.
CO2 is good for plant growth. It is an essential ingredient in the process of photosynthesis (how organisms, like plants and algae, make food for themselves using sunlight and H20 [water]). Then these organisms fart oxygen (O). Thank you plants and algae for flatulating, we appreciate it!
Now CO (carbon monoxide)? Not good. Don't believe me? Put a car in a confined space and run the engine with the windows down for a couple of hours and let me know how that works out for you. I remember smog (smoke and fog), which was still a problem back in the early '80s, when I was stationed in California with the military. I also experienced a type of smog when I served in the Middle East during the Persian Gulf War as the oil fields were set on fire. Part of my lung is calcified. This is a common malady experienced by a number of Persian Gulf Veterans. No worries, it is not serious the VA tells me.
Long before modern medicine, there were terrible diseases that killed children. Polio, scarlet fever, black plague, malaria, measles, small pox, etc. Due to medical (scientific) intervention, these diseases have been fought with a great deal of success. Should we not look to preserve human life the same way with the changes in the climate? As the fellow who hosts Answers with Joe summarizes in the video I shared,
I, for one, am not going to help that process speed along.