Climate Change

Not quite as exciting as the 9/11 and pentagon conspiracy theories etc..

Was just wondering about peoples views on the subject,

Are we responsible for the world warming up and should we be acting to reverse the trend?

Or is it part of the Earth's natural cycle and nothing to worry about?

Discuss

[Bri w]

Originally Posted by tactcom7

Not quite as exciting as the 9/11 and pentagon conspiracy theories etc..

Was just wondering about peoples views on the subject,

Are we responsible for the world warming up and should we be acting to reverse the trend?

Or is it part of the Earth's natural cycle and nothing to worry about?

Discuss

Not worried about it. I'll be long long gone before the sea is lapping on my front door.

Even if it is true, future genrations will be better placed with advanced technologies to combat it - necessity is the mother of invention. Once the need becomes great enough, the world's govt's and industries will make a proper effort unlike the alleged effort they are making now.

Besides, I love burning fossil fuels

I think its a load of crap but let them get on with it, at the end of the day we cant rely on fossil fuels forever and it creates jobs and such.

i think the truth is simple, there is a lot less oil than we're led to belive so they want us to use as little as possible in an attempt to preserve the oil which we do have.

Originally Posted by tactcom7

Are we responsible for the world warming up and should we be acting to reverse the trend?

Or is it part of the Earth's natural cycle and nothing to worry about?

Yes!

It is such a complicated engine that we can't possibly know for certain. All the human created emissions can't help, but the Earth has always had cycles of freeze and thaw.

I've often pondered how the levels of emissions from the industrial revolution compare to those today. City air seems a lot cleaner (no peasoupers in Manchester) - different volumes or different types of emission?

[DarrenSV650S]

[anna]

The bottom line is, it doesnt really matter if it is true or not.

We should be looking for "greener" ways to live to be able to protect our future generations.

I actually think a lot of it is over hype, the climate cycles have only been accurately logged for less then 100 years or so and therefore no predictions with regards to weather patterns are able to be made on a long term scale. (I know this goes against what most think) In the grand scheme of things I dont think we are able to tell what impact we are actually having on the earth.

Obviously saying that, we arent exactly being fair to our natural resources, and it is common sense that states we are using up a good % of resources on fuel alone, so it cant hurt to find other methods.

Couldn't have put it better myself Anna.

[punyXpress]

Originally Posted by Owenski

i think the truth is simple, there is a lot less oil than we're led to belive so they want us to use as little as possible in an attempt to preserve the oil which we do have.

Owenski's way of telling us to get the miles in while we can.
Thanks for the headsup, O

In my view, climate change is cyclic, but we have damaged the ozone layer and thats not disputed and we have to reduce our drain on the earths resources as Anna mentioned earlier.
We cant just keep taking and then filling the voids left behind with landfill rubbish.
A lot of boffins believe the ozone damage can be reversed, so lets hope thats true.

On a final note, lets stop wasting stupid amounts of time and money on hybrid and some electric cars where their benefits are heavily disputed as in the environmental impact to produce them.