Quote by bwebNow that we've
heard from the environmental whacko segment, let's look at things from a scientific perspective.
First of all, the dreaded "Hole in the Ozone Layer" is caused primarily by termperature variances at the pole
than by mankind's influence.
True, CFCs break down ozone, but we learend that a long time ago, and there was a huge push to ban and/or limit the use
of CFCs in the materials we use.
Then there is the fact that Earth has gone through varying cycles of warming and cooling. I would guaruntee you that had
they been around at the time, the environmentalists would have blamed cavemen for the Ice Age.
The truth is, depsite our best computer models, we aren't able to know the climate from the past as much as
we'd like to.
And as much as people like ot blame humanity, nature plays its own part. Land masses have moved. Men didn't do
that. The shift of land and redistribution of earth and water has altered climate as well.
There wasn't always a Nile Delta. Years of erosion and deposit built it up. It's a land mass, and it's
bound to affect climate.
Volcanic eruptions also reshape the landscape, which will affect weather patterns and flow.
Hell, the Earthquake that caused last year's tsunami suposedly shifted the position of the whole planet. Don't
tell me that won't affect the weather somewhat.
Also, the Kyoto Accords aren't viable. They would bankrupt industrialized nations, and they make exceptions for
developing nations, thus doing nothing to stifle the output of pollution.
If you environmentalists are so upset with the development of the weather, take it up with Mother Nature. She has more
to do with it than we do, I assure you.
Most of the scientists agree that weather change have always happened but unlike before human activity has probably
participated significally now. And the change is widely seen to be faster and more important thanks to that.
And who has contributed now the more to the pollution, developped countries, aren't they ?
So it would be fairer to ask someone to restrict his 4*4 travels and to ask another to eat less ?
For the hole in the ozone layer , I haven't heard it increases temperature but it has a most direct consequence,
since exposition to the sun is really dangerous and increase a lot the risk to have cancer... that's a pity to see
school children not playing in the air because of that in a country of South America and to have signals too about the
sun during the weather forecast -_- , sunny days are dangerous ...
People in Australia and New-Zeland must be cautious too about that.
I think you take an extreme view... so according to you, the countries that have signed Kyoto treaty are stupid... and
controlled by the environmental whacko segment.
And you know we can't really act on eartquakes or volcano eruptions, but it isn't like we do nothing to
prevent their consequances... or the best and efficient way is to do nothing, and just say after : "oh it's
just Mother Nature that created Katrina, nothing to be blamed against any person"
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For the scientific part, I remember that some Nobel Prize with other scientists of a country wrote an open letter to
protest against how science was mistreated by the administration of this country even if the same government claimed to
use science's results... even if it seems more it uses the results it wants and discards the rest -_-
So truly, I don't think we use the same scientific knowledge.
