sandorski sandorski:
Bodah Bodah:
Heres the problem with his arguement....
Every decade or so the eco-hysteria industry comes up with a new scare, this is called the cry wolf syndrome. People get tired of "experts" in this case who are telling us what the weather is going to be like a decade or two from now, but can't even nail the forecast 2 days from now. The problem with the eco-hysteria cry wolf syndrome is that one day we may need to actually pay heed, but from what I've read it appears to me, whats warming up our planet is, now hold on, this may be a shocker.... its not humans and our "carbon footprints" but the sun.
So according to his arguement every ten years or so, when the alarm bells start ringing. We should be making drastic changes no matter what, so we can say just in case ? That may prove to be a little costly dont ya think ?
Sorry bud that's not a silver bullet.
Except for the fact that there isn't an "eco-hysteria" issue that comes up every decade or so, at least not one that was actred on then has proved false.
Well, there was the DDT scare whose junk science spawned the environmental movement and resulted in the deaths of millions of people in the third world. DDT as being harmful to the environment was recently proven to be bunk.
Then of course there was the Global Cooling for about a decade during the late 60s through the 70s. It was about 8 years or so of exceptionally cold weather with lots more snow then normal and scientists were predicting another ice age. Us middle agers remember the hysteria of Global Cooling when we were kids.
Can't forget about the great overpopulation scare. In fact, we as a planet were supposed to have run out of resources and people were supposed to be starving in the streets, mass political unrest, disease etc. And that was supposed to happen if we hit an unimaginable 4 billion souls. The Earth was also predicted not to be able to feed the planet and that if humanity was to survive into the 21st century we would have to turn to living and farming under the ocean or soylent green. (They actually taught this in school as fact, the oceans part that is).
What else comes to mind?
Acid rain, ozone layer, soil sterlisation, West Nile virus, Nuclear winter, killer bees, disappearing whales, etc etc.
When you can argue that your tractor idling on a farm in northern Manitoba is adversely affecting the people of Mongolia and that an international CO2 sharing commission such as Kyoto administered by the UN is the only way to save the planet you embolden the left too far in their quest for a one world government.
CKA Uber 
