Decades ago, the big claim was "warning..the next ice age (man made) is upon us. It made all the headlines in news magazines.
A few decades later, when that did not pan out, it became "global warming" and all those dire predictions....till we had several record low temp winters.
Now the same folks have altered the "dire warnings" again, to "man made climate change"...so it can cover just about anything.
I know we must have SOME effect on climate, but since you could take every human on earth, given one square foot, and fit them ALL on Manhattan Island, I think our "total footprint" on ANYTHING to do with this big planet is not nearly what some would have us believe.
In fact, for MILLIONS of years, we have had HUGE climate shifts...ICE AGES across the globe and BURNING HEAT in huge stretches of the now habitable places on earth...and this was before man was a spec on the environmental horizon.
SO...what do YOU think? Do you believe we have as much an impact on all this odd weather as some would want us to believe, or is it part of NATURES cycle of weather and WAY beyond our ability to have a lot of influence on?
(Yes, I do recycle, use energy efficient bulbs and try and do my part to help MINIMIZE our impact on the environment, but when places like China and India are spewing 1000 times more waste out then the USA, I wonder how much of our little attempt to regulate has any effect anyway. More over, I am still confused as to the human impact to begin with).
A few decades later, when that did not pan out, it became "global warming" and all those dire predictions....till we had several record low temp winters.
Now the same folks have altered the "dire warnings" again, to "man made climate change"...so it can cover just about anything.
I know we must have SOME effect on climate, but since you could take every human on earth, given one square foot, and fit them ALL on Manhattan Island, I think our "total footprint" on ANYTHING to do with this big planet is not nearly what some would have us believe.
In fact, for MILLIONS of years, we have had HUGE climate shifts...ICE AGES across the globe and BURNING HEAT in huge stretches of the now habitable places on earth...and this was before man was a spec on the environmental horizon.
SO...what do YOU think? Do you believe we have as much an impact on all this odd weather as some would want us to believe, or is it part of NATURES cycle of weather and WAY beyond our ability to have a lot of influence on?
(Yes, I do recycle, use energy efficient bulbs and try and do my part to help MINIMIZE our impact on the environment, but when places like China and India are spewing 1000 times more waste out then the USA, I wonder how much of our little attempt to regulate has any effect anyway. More over, I am still confused as to the human impact to begin with).
