These are my views on Global Warming. Everyone
is entitled to their own view, even if it maybe wrong (or maybe right but the majority
of people think it is wrong.)
The
whole Global Warming debate is based on a misconception.
Who ever
said that the world should always maintain a nice temperate climate for us
humans?
It is
very arrogant of humans to assume that the world should always maintain the
same average temperature just because it suits them.
The age of
the earth is 4.5 billion years, and human civilization is around 4500 years
old. Human Civilization has existed for just 0.0001% of the lifetime of the
earth.
We know
there have been ice ages. We know been periods of very hot climate. It would seem
sensible to assume that the average temperature of the earth exists in a state
of oscillation. Maybe the average temperature of the earth is going up, but it
will go up so far, then come down again, and some time in the future there will
be an ice age.
One
thing I concede, is that perhaps human civilization is causing an acceleration
of this cycle, but I don’t think anyone has produced good evidence to make this
a certainty (since our detailed climate records go back only a few hundred
years.) Pollution and squandering of our valuable natural resources is a bad
thing for sure, and we “humans” should try to minimize our environment impact.
If
pollution/environmental damage caused by human civilization might be
responsible for accelerating us to the next ice age (there doesn’t seem to be a
phrase for hot age), there is the proverbial elephant in the room that no one seems
to be willing to talk about - overpopulation.
Let’s
face it, if the population of the earth wasn’t 7.5 billion peoples and was
instead say 500’000 (coincidentally the WWF’s estimate for the number of great
apes left living in the world), then everyone could drive around in V12 supercars
and the pollution would be a lot less.
Everyone
has equal right to life. All 7.5 billion peoples in the world have an absolute
equal right to life. No one is superior to anyone else. But there is a point to
the above 2 paragraphs that is rarely spoken of (because everyone fears being
called nasty names by ignorant people.)
And we
should not make the mistake of turning the Global Warming debate into a debate
about Climate Change. It’s even more ridiculous than expecting the world to
always maintain the same nice temperature for us humans, to expect the world to
maintain the same nice climate (fact is, humans do not understand the universe
anything like as well as they think they do.)
It
always bugs me when we have a very hot summer and it’s all over the news “this
is a sign of things to come, this is a sign of global warming”, but when we
have a very cold winter, no one says “this is a sign of global cooling”.
Yes, the
average temperature of the earth may get hotter, but it’s a misconception to
think it should stay the same forever!
The next
Ice Age is coming!
Image: The northern ice cap creeps over earth
A
Terrifying GIF of An Ice Age Ripping Through The US
The
Earth Is Getting Hotter Faster Than It Ever Has Since Dawn of Civilization