Posted by
Rick on Friday, April 06, 2007 10:20:13 AM
Here is the lead paragraph from a Yahoo story,
BRUSSELS, Belgium - An international global warming conference approved a report Friday warning of dire threats to the Earth and to mankind — from increased hunger to the extinction of species — unless the world adapts to climate change and halts its progress.
Sure! Global warming is a threat! However, is it a threat that we humans can control? Do we humans have control of the sun? Heck, most of us barely have control of our cars on the way to and from work! Again, do we humans have the ability to control what the sun does?
IMHO, No. The warming (AND COOLING) of the earth is a cyclic function, and there is nothing that we, as humans, can do about it. It is even sillier to consider that we are shooting off our noses to spite our faces if we think that we can affect CO2 emissions by demanding that the cleanest countries (The Americas and those in Western Europe) clean up THEIR acts before we demand the same of the dirtiest countries (China and India).
Forgive me for the redundancy, but this effort makes sense only to liberal Europeans and like-minded Americans. The Chinese and Indians will resist the effort, of course. More power to them!