06-11-2009, 04:22 PM
Of course, climate change is a world-wide issue, not just European. But as to whether there is anything Europe, or the US, or China, or anyone, can do about it... I'm afraid the brutal answer is "No". Even before Al Gore got his Nobel Prize for 'discovering' Global Warming ( which for the record, was 'after' he 'invented' the internet ), scientists have told us that the earth has gone through many, many cycles of tropical overheating and ice-ages. It's a natural cycle that's been going on long before man was on the planet. In the four and a half billion year history of this planet, man is barely a foot-note, a pimple, a dot on it's over-all life.
That's not to say that man has no impact on the environment, for we definitely do. But in the multi-thousand year climate changes that the earth goes through, which cannot be changed, how much do you invest to try and change it a little? Do you invest 1/10th of your economy to hold it off 100 years? 1/2 of your economy to hold it off 250 years? Maybe 3/4 of your economy to hold it off 400 years?
The point is, there is nothing you can do to STOP it. It can come sooner if you do nothing, or later if you work on nothing else. But you can't STOP it. It's a monster global cycle, completely natural, that doesn't care how much money you throw at it. Only mankind thinks he can outwit nature...
The part that does make me upset, is how doomsayers use it to get people to rally together for their causes, and the companies that make money off the people for their 'green' ideas. A whole industry has built up to take people's money in the name of "Global Warming". Saving energy, not being wasteful, saving money, alternative energy, all great ideas...
Thinking you can physically control the world? Well...
That's not to say that man has no impact on the environment, for we definitely do. But in the multi-thousand year climate changes that the earth goes through, which cannot be changed, how much do you invest to try and change it a little? Do you invest 1/10th of your economy to hold it off 100 years? 1/2 of your economy to hold it off 250 years? Maybe 3/4 of your economy to hold it off 400 years?
The point is, there is nothing you can do to STOP it. It can come sooner if you do nothing, or later if you work on nothing else. But you can't STOP it. It's a monster global cycle, completely natural, that doesn't care how much money you throw at it. Only mankind thinks he can outwit nature...
The part that does make me upset, is how doomsayers use it to get people to rally together for their causes, and the companies that make money off the people for their 'green' ideas. A whole industry has built up to take people's money in the name of "Global Warming". Saving energy, not being wasteful, saving money, alternative energy, all great ideas...
Thinking you can physically control the world? Well...