Here I am about to jump right in to quite a strong debate about global warming, Al Gore, etc...Here is my view point on such things:
As i understand it the last ice age was not that long ago, and we are in fact still coming out of it. What happens to temperatures when coming out of an ICE AGE? Yes, they increase.....
Oh look! the globe is warming! Perfectly natural and normal.
It has been proven that the planet's global climate and temperature cycles every 200 million years or so, and the variance in temperature is quite considerable....if I remember rightly +/- 50 to 60 degrees centigrade. As i said they have proven this and plotted it looks like a sin wave.
I believe that we CAN impact the world's climate, but not as drastically as is claimed...Just to reiterate, it is normal for the temperatures/climate of this planet to fluctuate.
People like Al Gore annoy me. In this country (UK) the people in power are forever saying "we must do more to help the environment". Yes I think this is good...But not when this "help" takes the form of taxing the motorist more and more. It is such an obvious way to get yet more moey out of people who are already broke (thanks to the incompetent idiot bankers!). If governments were REALLY serious about helping the enviroment by say, doing away with our dependance on cars, they would come up with a serious short, medium and long term strategy....Not just tax the hell out of people in the hope that they will use their cars less! Just think for one minute what would happen to a country if it was made all of a sudden so expensive that they could not use any vehicles with combustion engines!
(I tell you they are determined to get us out of our cars into bloody electric golf buggy things...Eurgh!!).
As i have said there is so much that we do not know or understand about this planet. The climate etc...of Earth has changed so much so many times and it will do so again. Don't they find fossil fish and things in the Grand canyon meaning it used to be under water? Dinosaurs can't exist today because the gravity is too great....That's why insects do not get as big as they used to (dragon flies with 1.5m wings, 10ft long scorpions....and before anyone says, I know a scorpion is an arachnid and not an insect...but pretty cool though...a 10 ft scorpion!...can't squish it with the heel of your slipper and it is unlikely to scuttle under your bed when you put the light on!)....just a few examples of how much this planet has changed and keeps changing.
i will shut up now....Sorry to ramble on, but the global warming thing annoys me when i see tv and film stars acting like they are world experts on the issue....they use words you can see they have no idea of the meaning...
