The Global Warming Wars Are Just Starting
While everyone in the world dicked around about global warming being caused by human activities vs. solar activity, the problem was slowly getting out of control.
And then, all of a sudden things went from 0 to 100 in a matter of a few short years. While corporations insist that it was solar activity and not human activity that is causing the warming, ice caps continued to melt and more and more polar bears drowned because their ice floats are disappearing and not much is left to hold onto in those cold artic waters.
The funny thing is, up until very recently, common wisdom had it that we had 100 years or so, to figure it out and science will save us all. But research funding also drives science and who pays for the funding pretty much determines the results. And, if the government and other funders don’t like the science they can either shut down the research or, edit and sanitize the results.
But, the fact of the matter is that some governments are still pushing for large tax breaks for oil companies and slashing budgets for alternative energy research. Yet, governments and business still hint at the fact that we needn’t worry because science will fix it.
But the funders of science are still in the fossil fuel age and they’ll be of little help and, probably, more of a hindrance because the funders are only likely to found and continue funding research that says what they want it to say, no matter how dubious the science.
And we’ve already seen how dubious intelligence and dubious politics got us into the first global warming war, with another one on the way. Iraq and next up, Iran.
But even government and false science cannot ignore the obvious and now, it is not so much a matter of learning how to prevent global warming, but learning how to live with it with a minimum of bloodshed and violence.
The scary thing is, next year might bring a major climate change into our own backyards because we won’t be prepared for it...
Kind of like, where have all the honeybees gone?
And, more to the point, why are they leaving?
WW doesn't know, but here is a clue to help connect the dots and learn something from the honeybees.
What if honeybees amongst the flowers are like canaries in the cole mines?
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Report_warns_Climate_Change_could_mean_0406.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-hanft/where-have-the-honeybees-_b_42331.html
Might there be a pattern here and, if that is the case, what are we missing and totally not seeing?
Trust me,
Weird Wally
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Showing posts with label Global Warming. Show all posts
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Saturday, April 07, 2007
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Global Warming
Weird Wally gets more then a few emails from folks who are pissed at him for not posting more about global warming.
Fact of the matter is, Global Warming was an issue with us U.S. Citizens back around 2000, AD. Since that time, things have exceeded critical mass and us humans are no longer in control because we really fucked up.
While focusing on petty shit, like gay marriage, abortion and socialized medicine, we totally forgot about our mother who gave birth and initially nurtured us.
The way WW sees it, it's not so much a matter of stopping or slowing Global Warming, since it has taken on a life of its own, what we need to do now is learn how to live with it.
But, how do we do that?
It's really stupid to piss against the wind!
Trust me,
Weird Wally
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Weird Wally gets more then a few emails from folks who are pissed at him for not posting more about global warming.
Fact of the matter is, Global Warming was an issue with us U.S. Citizens back around 2000, AD. Since that time, things have exceeded critical mass and us humans are no longer in control because we really fucked up.
While focusing on petty shit, like gay marriage, abortion and socialized medicine, we totally forgot about our mother who gave birth and initially nurtured us.
The way WW sees it, it's not so much a matter of stopping or slowing Global Warming, since it has taken on a life of its own, what we need to do now is learn how to live with it.
But, how do we do that?
It's really stupid to piss against the wind!
Trust me,
Weird Wally
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