Comments on: Report: Human activity “almost certainly” the cause of climate change

By: mhogan

mhogan — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 23:55:00 +0000

Agree. As long as we keep propagating without regard to how to provide for the human race on this little planet. But that’s a choice some people can’t make (we’re not rabbits, after all)–taking responsibility goes beyond how best to control CO2; as if that will solve all our problems.

By: turbooperator

turbooperator — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:42:00 +0000

We were given the tools to live, the tools to die and the freedom to choose. Who really is the stupid one here? Climate change notwithstanding, the path that we are on as a species is currently unsustainable.

By: mhogan

mhogan — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 19:37:00 +0000

Hehehe. What a range of characters: God, Hitler, Charles Manson, and Greedy Corporations. May I remind you that “greed”, “gluttony”, the “undue love of money” and “other forms of evil” are not restricted to those with intelligence. And, no, not all climate scientists are tools, just the kind of character as Michael Mann and his hockey stick theory. I hear it was recently resurrected … and was broken again. Just like medical science, which changes its position on what’s good for you one day is bad the next (and then reverses it yet again), I think when it comes to MMGW, I’ll be a little less arrogant and wait for a few centuries to see if it’s an on-again-off-again-on again problem. Listen: climate changes. Get used to it.

By: JSmith

JSmith — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:47:00 +0000

So you are assuming that all climate scientists are merely tools for “goofy environmentalists”? And please remember that the tobacco industry had once spent years citing hired pseudo-scientists in an attempt to prove that tobacco products were safe. As to your infusion of God into the debate, are you saying that because He created fossil fuels & people, that we should not concern ourselves with their use, rate of depletion or any negative consequences from such use? Would you say the same about Hitler or Charles Manson? Or, more to the point, about smog, pollution, or energy conservation in general? I believe that it makes more sense to say that God created us in such a way that we could intelligently deal with these things, as well as others that might result from greed, gluttony, the undue love of money and other forms of evil.

By: mhogan

mhogan — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 16:00:00 +0000

Quite right. I stand corrected. Coal, oil, and natural gas were formed from organic remains of prehistoric plants and animals. But then the question begs: Was God so stupid that He didn’t realize the creatures or plant material He created would die and decompose? And of He created man, were we intended only to freeze to death. Surely, that would be too cruel. Ethereal perhaps, but an interesting debate nonetheless.

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:39:00 +0000

No. God did not put “fossil fuel” into the ground.

By: MJ

MJ — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:31:00 +0000

Global warming? Yes I believe it has been warming ever since the ice age.

By: mhogan

mhogan — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 14:59:00 +0000

Here we go again … more propaganda for the goofy environmentalists. Can anyone imagine that God created man because he didn’t know how to extract fossil fuel from His Earth on His own. I mean, He did put it n the ground, didn’t He?