Anthropogenic Global Warming

[Kytiara]

I am undecided in the overall impact of humans on the global warming. In fact, like a few others in this thread, I am undecided on whether it is even occurring. Are you going to label me as some sort of crazy "skeptic", compare me to WW2 nazi's and tell me I'm obviously anti-human and want to world to end? Unfortunately for me, I do not get a paycheck from big oil. I walk to work, I drive a new sub-compact fuel efficient Honda Fit which has a LEV-2 (low emissions vehicle 2) rating. I try and buy locally grown organic foods. I recycle everything that I can. I use low energy light bulbs and make sure the only things turned on are those that I am using. I am however, unwilling to blindly except the in your face "truth" that is being pushed just because someone tells me to.

Now, having said that, here are a few other points I think should be brought up:

First, co2 is not a pollutant. I don't know why people keep referring to it as such. Reducing pollution and reducing co2 are two different issues. Co2 itself is a naturally produced gas by pretty much everything on the planet that isn't a plant. You produce co2 every time you breath out, so does every other animal. Plants on the other hand, use it as a food source. So please stop acting as if those people who are against the theory of AGW are PRO POLLUTION...its just not true.

Second, do you feel that developing countries should be denied the right to industrialize? Should China and India be forced to halt all new advancements and be told they have to buy our "green" products instead? What about Africa? For the millions of people that don't have electricity, should they be told that "Sorry, nope, you can't use that easily obtained coal lying all over the place in africa, instead you need to buy solar panels and nuclear plants and wind turbines from us, at a premium of course".

Third, how can anyone say what a few degree's will do? Everyone talks about worse weather, more droughts, dying crops, increased natural disasters...but why? The average global tempurature is considered to have been just as high, or maybe a bit higher, during the medieval warm period. However there are no reports of massive storms or droughts. My point here is, for every person trying to be Nostradamus, there is a 50% chance they are right, and a 50% chance they are wrong. We can't see the future until we reach it.