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Originally Posted by Creek Jackson
humans are the first species on this planet with the power to transform it's surface, polute the enviroment, kill off whole species,
The fact here is that 99.99% of all species that were once residents of this planet are now extinct.
It is quite safe to surmise that humans will not upset that statistic.
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THAT "statistic" is a "statistical IMPOSSIBILITY." You are spreading MANURE! :lol:
Other than the Dinosaurs (which is just a FEW species,) the REST of us are pretty much still HERE! Amoeba, fish, fowl, beast, primates and human!
But ONLY humans have the power to "industrialize" and pollute! SURE there is a CYCLE of temperatures for the planet, but the OZONE layer has always been PART of that cycle..... until "greenhouse gasses!" :roll:
There is "incontravertible proof" that industrialization/pollution has CHANGED the NATURAL CYCLE! And it seems, that only a MINOR change is enough to make a MAJOR change in the cycle!
OTHER than "natural selection" it is a FACT that humans have caused the extinction of many "species," through hunting AND "development" (see Snail Darter and some stupid OWL.... who were not HUNTED, but lost their "environment.")
IF..... as the "Evolutionists" want to believe..... there is a NATURAL progression of life and species.... WE have certainly upset the applecart!
Ask the Polar bears who are drowning because the iceflows have broken up if ANYONE in THEIR history ever "foresaw" this??? :roll:
YES, there certainly IS a "natural" ebb and flow from Ice Age to Desert sands! The Serengeti USED to be a "fertile" land! But, it is EASY for scientists to guage the INCREMENTALISM of these changes over history, and the FACT is...... it has been METABOLIZED by OUR presence on the planet.... specifically AFTER the Industrial Revolution! :roll:
(Whoever mentioned the lifespan of the mercury thermometer has NOT seen the TLC shows on ice boring in Greenland! )
MOST of you who "scoff," don't even understand that Global "Warming" is a bit of a
misnomer! It's AFFECTS include colder winters AND drier summers, depending on the movement of the HOLE in the Ozone layer! So.... the harsh winters AND the droughts in the normally wet South, are BOTH part of the effects!
With even a SLIGHT "warming" of the atmosphere, the Santa Anna winds become more FIERCE, whipping fires through even DRIER vegetation! Rainfall that normally fills the rivers of the SouthEast, moves to colder climes, causing RECORD snowfalls and cold weather! Cyclones and Hurricanes that at ONE time affected only the Tropics, move into more populated areas! Indeed, even the deforestation of the Amazon has a MAJOR affect!
The old adage is STILL true..... Don't MESS with "Mother Nature!" But.... we HAVE!! And she is responding in a purely "physical" way!
Those of you who refuse to believe, or even CONSIDER it.... are today's version of the FLAT EARTH society! :roll:
And the really HUMOROUS thing, to those like ME.... is that MOST of you are the religious Conservatives who CLAIM to believe in the Bible, in which you were warned that you will "reap what you sow!" :lol: :lol:
For the more "Cosmic" minded amongst you.... consider that for EVERY action, there is an equal and OPPOSITE reaction in nature!
And for the Evolutionists, who believe the Dinosaurs became extinct almost "overnight" because of some meteor bombardment of the Earth, the "resulting" darkened atmosphere is just a more "pronounced" version of what our pollution is doing NOW! :roll:
Surely, there are some here (like Twilight Flyer) who have "got theirs," and don't give a DANG about the world we leave MY decendants (or YOURS!) But.... ALL our decendants will suffer the results IF we don't at least CONSIDER, in FULL FAITH, the "theories" that address Global Warming!
Prove them RIGHT.... or prove them WRONG!! But, PLEASE.... do not ignore them and scoff at them! I GUARANTEE that those who are involved in this discussion are NOT just "truckers" around the Petro Buffet!! :roll:
Right or Wrong, they are "schooled, educated and committed!" SOME of them, at least, are of the caliber of men and women who put us on the MOON! Could YOU have done that??
If there is even a CHANCE that they are right, PRUDENCE and COMMON SENSE would dictate that we PAY some ATTENTION!! Only a FOOL would laugh at his own BEHEADING!! :roll:
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