The Global Warming Argument

I can't believe I almost forgot what I was going to write about!  This is something that has really bugged me for many years.  And the current temperature trends in the United States are only going to fuel the exaggeration by those that want to put everyone in a panic!  That's right, in the United States, over the last 5 days, there have been well over 1000 record high temperatures recorded.



I'm not one of those that completely denies that the ambient air temperature is warming because it is a fact that the temperature is going up.  But where I have a problem is with the fact that the scientists refuse to tell the whole truth.  They will tell you how the greenhouse gases created by man made pollution is causing the temperature of the earth to climb.  There is some truth to that, but only some.  These greenhouse gases may be assisting or possibly even accelerating the warming.  But the problem I really have that no one will point out is that the earth's atmosphere has been warming since the last ice age!  Have you ever heard any of the scientists point that fact out?  We have no records from prior to the last ice age so we don't know what happened.  Will these same scientists use the greenhouse gas argument when the warming cycle of the earth stops and the cooling process begins?  I doubt it, it will be something else that humans have done that is causing it.  The real truth is that this may actually be the complete and natural pattern that happens every time after an ice age.  We just don't know.


I will agree that humans may be accelerating it but we are not the only cause.  In fact, just last year I read an article about cloning meat for human consumption (I know, it sounds wrong but I don't have to worry cause I won't eat it).  One of the reasons that the scientists were so excited had to do with the amount of methane (a greenhouse gas) was produced by livestock each year just for human consumption.  The article stated that 85%  (or some high number like that) of all methane produced globally was from livestock and that it made up nearly half of the greenhouse gases produced each year!  One of the comments actually pointed out that if that was the case we should be researching how to control the methane production of livestock or perhaps learn how to capture it for better use.  What a great thought!  I would love to put a link in here but it was too long ago, I will try to find it and will edit this post if I do.


But that brings me to electric or hybrid cars.  People normally buy them because they don't produce any emissions.  Well here is a little known fact, you aren't actually stopping the greenhouse gas problem, you are just displacing it.  In the United States, 65% of electricity is still produced using fossil fuel.  And that burning of fossil fuel creates greenhouse gas emissions.  What makes it worse is that the emissions of those power plants is less regulated than the emissions of your car.  So how much are you really saving the environment now?  But what also needs to be considered is the shortage of electricity for states like California who is pushing these vehicles.  Where is that electricity going to come from?  My guess is more fossil fuel since it is so difficult to get approval for a nuclear plant (which has it's own issues).  Electric and hybrid cars will only serve to reduce the need for oil, not lower the release of greenhouse gases.


So what is my solution?  I honestly don't have one.  I just don't like the way in which the scientific community likes to cause people to panic and completely change their ways without giving the whole truth.  It would be nice if they did, but then again if they did I wouldn't have had anything to complain about tonight...