This guys is a physicist who won the nobel peace prize. He is NOT a climatologist but I just mention his credentials since most people assume anyone not buying into global warming is scientifically illiterate or a flat-earther.
And it's not that he doesn't believe global warming is happening, it's just that "who cares". His outlook in this article is exactly how I feel. The premis is basicaly that the earth deals with large time periods, it always corrects everything and in a few million years all the carbon in the air will be redistributed through some process as the earth regains its ballance. To just focus on C02 and blame a temperature increase over the last 160 years as PROOF that global warming is going to end us is kind of overlooking the bigger picture. Yes carbon emissions are a factor, but the real problem is human population pressure generally—overharvesting, habitat destruction, pesticide abuse, species invasion, and so forth. Slowing man-made extinctions in a meaningful way would require drastically reducing the world’s human population. That is unlikely to happen.
So at the end of the day, even if we legislate a million global warming rules, the earth will not care about our governments actions or their legislation. There isn't much we can do, and any attempt is only holding off whateve rthe inevitable effects of this polllution will have by maybe 100 years.
To quote a friend:
"Even IF the alleged "man-made Global Warming" IS real...
so what?
by the time it has any effect we'll all be dead.
do you think our great-grandfathers sat around fretting about how we would survive?
the future generations will figure it out.
and if not, fark them for not being smart enough to figure it out.
I'll be in my grave."
And that's the truth. It sounds bad but it's the truth. We have a good few hundred years left if we believe the worst case scenario estimates. We went from riding horses to flying to the moon in 60 years, I think we can figure this out in 300 years. At the end of the day it is about survival. If humans go extinct and we cause the 6th "great mass-extinction" due to our actions, than we are not fit to survive. Earth will wipe us from the planet, restore the balance, and in a few million years intelligence will develope in another species and start over. Such is the way the world turns.
Full article:
http://www.theamericanscholar.org/what-the-earth-knows/
And it's not that he doesn't believe global warming is happening, it's just that "who cares". His outlook in this article is exactly how I feel. The premis is basicaly that the earth deals with large time periods, it always corrects everything and in a few million years all the carbon in the air will be redistributed through some process as the earth regains its ballance. To just focus on C02 and blame a temperature increase over the last 160 years as PROOF that global warming is going to end us is kind of overlooking the bigger picture. Yes carbon emissions are a factor, but the real problem is human population pressure generally—overharvesting, habitat destruction, pesticide abuse, species invasion, and so forth. Slowing man-made extinctions in a meaningful way would require drastically reducing the world’s human population. That is unlikely to happen.
So at the end of the day, even if we legislate a million global warming rules, the earth will not care about our governments actions or their legislation. There isn't much we can do, and any attempt is only holding off whateve rthe inevitable effects of this polllution will have by maybe 100 years.
To quote a friend:
"Even IF the alleged "man-made Global Warming" IS real...
so what?
by the time it has any effect we'll all be dead.
do you think our great-grandfathers sat around fretting about how we would survive?
the future generations will figure it out.
and if not, fark them for not being smart enough to figure it out.
I'll be in my grave."
And that's the truth. It sounds bad but it's the truth. We have a good few hundred years left if we believe the worst case scenario estimates. We went from riding horses to flying to the moon in 60 years, I think we can figure this out in 300 years. At the end of the day it is about survival. If humans go extinct and we cause the 6th "great mass-extinction" due to our actions, than we are not fit to survive. Earth will wipe us from the planet, restore the balance, and in a few million years intelligence will develope in another species and start over. Such is the way the world turns.
Full article:
http://www.theamericanscholar.org/what-the-earth-knows/
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