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Reply to Can you be an environmentalist but be a global warming skeptic? in Politics Stardock Forums

I checked wikipedia - since you referenced it: Nobody says that Carbonmonoxide is poisenous, or that all greenhouse gases are bad. In fact, without them it would be very very very cold, and they are a natural part of the atmosphere. Even though humanproduced Co2 is only a small part of the whole Co2 that exists worldwide, the burning of fossil resources frees up Co2 that had been bound for millenia. which in turn causes the Co2 concentration in the atmosphere to increase. The Over time - sinc

The final solution for the energy crisis in Humor JoeUser Forums

My neighbor growing up had this really great idea for solving the energy problem. He hated joggers and cyclers with a passion and proposed to ban such activities alltogether and instead make people with the urge to exercise run in gigantic treadmills to produce electricity.. Do something for your health AND your economy AND your environment - all rolled in one! Triple benefit.. also applicable to prisons, recess in elementary school (honestly, who has more energy than little kids?) and other

Reply to Future House progress: May 2009 in Building a home Stardock Forums

Wow, your future house looks like a small castle, complete with a little princess growing up in it.. that is really nice! I was reading the other threads about going green energywise being really difficult - and I agree with you. I live in Germany and it is easier to an extent to get green energy because well - Germany is a lot smaller and very densly populated. But even if you buy "green" energy here, mostly it is just nuclear cheap power importet from France - there is alot of cheating goin

Reply to Can you be an environmentalist but be a global warming skeptic? in Politics Stardock Forums

And just where do you think all the cruise ships get rid of their trash? All big container ships and basically any ship that is big enough to cross the ocean just dumps the waste in international waters because there are no rules and laws that say you can't. Big oil tankers wash out their tanks there and nobody really cares, because evidently the ocean is big enough and can take it - until proven otherwise by the oh so demanded hard evidence. But maybe when evidence will be there it is too la

Reply to Can you be an environmentalist but be a global warming skeptic? in Politics Stardock Forums

I just remembered another interesting story that I heard - which I don't have prove for but it is too far out there to be made up. Birthcontrol pills work with hormones, and human waste from people that take medicine based on hormones is passed down in sewage system, which clears the water etc. Even though wasterwater process plants are very thorough, they can not clean out all traces of hormones from said waste from people who took the medicine (i dont even know if they can at all). Thus, th

Reply to Can you be an environmentalist but be a global warming skeptic? in Politics Stardock Forums

Back in the good old times when the cavemen were killing sabretooth tigers and whatnot, they had had no technology besides a torch and sharpened stone to affect the environment like it is possible today, thus your argument is nullified. "Not knowing what will/could/might happen - thus be extracareful" is exclusively tagged to modern technology. Just look at China and how they pollute all their freshwater because their industry does not seem to care the slightest as long as they c

Reply to Can you be an environmentalist but be a global warming skeptic? in Politics Stardock Forums

Bunnahabbain, how do you think theories about climate are developed in the first place? By looking in the sky and smoking a bong? Or maybe you interpret data and do something with the results, which is of course totally easy peasy and no big deal, anybody can do it.. just collect data from all the weather balloons, and satelites, weather stations all over the globe, buoys in the ocean etc and do all necessary work (without a computer) - im sure you win the next Nobelprice in every category.Go

Reply to Can you be an environmentalist but be a global warming skeptic? in Politics Stardock Forums

No taltamir, you misunderstood that - I evidently did not explain what I meant clearly enough. It was a general principle and not solely aimed at CO2 emissions, and I never said once to stop all Co2 emissions immediatly. I know that it would be impossible anyway and that currently our inudstrialized societies depend on it for energy and industry. But I disagree with you on your second point - since when does the environment rely on artificial co2 emissions and would be hurt without them

Reply to Can you be an environmentalist but be a global warming skeptic? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Oh and yeah, you can be an environmentalist without even thinking about global warming - but everybody agrees that the world is warming on a global scale, just not if its manmade or not, isn`t that right? So..no you cannot be a global warming skeptic because it is an empirical fact, or so I heard again from unspecified sources. Average temperatures are rising slowly but surely, the northwest passage will be shipable soon and the polar caps are melting, which actually makes the people in green

Reply to Can you be an environmentalist but be a global warming skeptic? in Politics Stardock Forums

You totally missed the point, Draginol. I don't really care what other people think nor do I try to convert them. It is not about my personal opinion - and I am not american so I don't really understand this whole religious approach and polarizing of politics that seems to be pretty common in the US. It does rarely seem to be possible to have a somewhat detached abstract debate with Americans about anything really without someones feelings or convictions getting hurt and insults flying. (your

Reply to Can you be an environmentalist but be a global warming skeptic? in Politics Stardock Forums

Since i didn't mention any cures, I am wondering just what exactly you mean by "worse". Please elaborate on this? And with all due respect back, my brother in law taught this in University. He keeps up with all the current research that is published and has a better informed opinion about this issue than most because he is foremost a scientist that understands all the physical and chemical happenings in the atmosphere, and not a lawyer that tries to convinces others of his point of vie

Reply to Can you be an environmentalist but be a global warming skeptic? in Politics Stardock Forums

To put it in very plain words, even if you do not believe in global warming, you just can't morally take the chance that it might be true (said point is the ethical-philosophical construct made very well by Hans Jonas.. and it is above any political or otherwise ideology).

Reply to Can you be an environmentalist but be a global warming skeptic? in Politics Stardock Forums

To answer your question posed in the title - no. lol I am sadly not an environment scientist, but my brother in law is. He has a phd in geoecology which studies the impact of human technology on the global ecosystem. He bases his answer solely on empirical data.. to quote him "no respectable environmental scientist seriously disputes it". The problem is in interpreting the data and having a big enough supercomputers for all the massive calculations necessary. And honestly, mankind did not hav

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I really enjoyed this article because it summed up so much of what I've been thinking but had not been able to put into precice word