by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
There are a number of issues with this website and that is aside from the layout and the fact that there is very little information that people can really get their teeth into.
The author of the site talks of “Global Warming” and of global warming consequences.
However, the term “global warming” is no longer used by the scientific community in the first place and he then goes on to say that – and I quote: “The public believes that there is still debate as to whether or not global warming is man-made. That is wholly and utterly false. The scientific community has not only come to a consensus on the fact that global warming is man-made but that we need to act fast.”
The truth is that the scientific community is not in agreement; far from it. NASA scientists are talking about a global cooling – even a mini-ice ages – being upon us in the next couple of years, based on the solar cycle.
Other eminent environmental scientists, such as Prof. David Bellamy in the UK, for example, also are NOT in agreement with the notion of “Global Warming”, now called “Climate Change”, being man-made or caused by human activities.
Climate Change is also not the greatest threat that humanity is facing but other environmental problems are even more important, such as the loss of potable water, the depletion of soils, and such.
What would it help if we would manage to stop, not that we could, climate change and would end up with a planet that would have no water, forests, soil that no longer is able to support food growing, and such?
What the author of the website and also others do not wish to mention when they claim that the temperatures are rising is the findings of Australian scientists that since about 2002 the temperatures have not risen, not even by a fraction, but plateaued out, and that NASA, based on the solar cycles, predict a global cooling period coming upon us.
While we are, I am sure, all in agreement, that Climate Change is real that it is caused by human activity is not necessarily a proven factor.
Sure, the burning of fossil fuels has caused pollution and it is that what needs to be stopped, and ever since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution our clear cutting of forests and scrub land has destroyed the plant cover that absorbs the CO2 that is released, and not just by burning fossil fuels.
So-called global warming in Mexico referred to by the website author could also, and more precisely, be linked to El Niño and La Niña and not necessarily to Climate Change per se.
The Earth's climate has been changing from cold to hot and back at a more or less regular basis. That is why grapes could be grown all the way to Hadrian's Wall almost in the British Isles during the Roman occupation and that is why Greenland was named thus by the Vikings and Newfoundland Vinland.
The current melt of the glaciers on Greenland proves that that island was around the 10th century when the Vikings settled there forested and covered also in meadows suitable for cattle grazing.
It is not difficult for anyone to put together a collection of scientific papers in support of the “Climate change is man-made” agenda. Much harder this is as regards top the counter-arguments of which there are many but most of them never see the light of day in publications as they are not allowed to be published.
Many of the scientists that have opposing views to those in support of the agenda have been silenced by threats that if they did not shut up they would no longer be published or allowed to be on broadcasts, etc., as happened to Prof. Bellamy.
As said before, Climate Change is happening and our destruction of the forests has had and is having the greatest impact here, and emissions from the burning of fossil fuels is another factor, but climate change is also a natural phenomenon and cycle of our Planet.
About every thousand or so years, give or take a few decades or such, Mother Earth tends too throw a wobbly; sometimes small, sometimes large,
The biggest fallacy is the belief that we – we mere humans – who are partly responsible, maybe – can stop this from happening.
Also, the natural changes to the climate in previous decades and millennia have, at times, been rather swift, or how else can one explain why Greenland was abandoned and grapes have ceased too grow in Vinland?
Also it is said that the mammoths found frozen in the Siberian permafrost where found with food in their mouths.. They froze too death instantly. Much in the way that the fuel froze in the helicopters in the movie “The Day After Tomorrow”.
The warming in some of the cases was very gradual and took a while to come to a head but it got colder then rather rapidly.
Unless those climatic conditions were also caused by human activities and other CO2 causes – I guess the mammoths and their belching caused a lot of the problems /sarcasm off – then we must come to understand that our Planet goes through such changes and cycles every so often and has gone through them since time immemorial.
Rather than spending all our efforts on “combating global warming/climate change” we must look at getting the other bits sorted out, such as water and soil and we must find ways of learning to overcome the effects of a changing climate and live with it. We must work with Nature and nor against Her.
While there is a higher concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere nowadays and this has risen ever since the Industrial Revolution the fact that we have destroyed forests and woods and scrub lands which used to absorb the CO2 before is probably a much greater reason for the concentrations in air than any emissions. Which means we must plant trees and that pronto.
The fact that the curve of CO2 has been going up rather at a rate of knots after about 1955 can be directly attributed to our loss of green spaces and forests.
In Britain that was the time when the urban sprawl began and when the cities began to encroach further and further into the countryside and destroyed more and more woods, forests and scrub lands.
While it is true that industrial output and the car use also increased I am convinced that all of it has much more to do with the urbanization and the suburbs springing up all over the place and the so-called “new towns”.
I also very much believe that we are between the rock and a hard place as the changing climate is a natural cycle that may have been accelerated – though the timing is about right – through the fact that the CO2 levels have risen to a dangerous level.
In that way, in the way that we have destroyed the carbon sequesters, in the form of trees and other vegetation, such as the great grasslands that we put under the plow and should never have been, such as the great plains, the Prairies, we, the human race, especially the White Man, the colonialists, are responsible for some of the aspects of Climate Change.
The other factors, such as El Nino and La Nina, which also are natural phenomena, seem to always been, conveniently, forgotten by those that wish to hoist the “man-made global warming” agenda onto everyone.
The climate is changing, so much is a fact but the causes of which certainly are not clear cut. All computer models depend on the GIGO principle, namely that of “garbage in, garbage out”, and therefore cannot be relied upon in either direction and discounting findings that point to temperatures leveling off and plateauing and even burying such findings dos not help the cause either.
I say it again: the climate is changing but whether we can do anything about it is an other question and, the climate change agenda is suppressing other, equally important issues, namely those of water, soil and habitat loss and loss of species, etc.
Please also note that the environment is going to survive and it has nothing too do with the survival, as it is often said, of the environment but everything to do with our survival.
The Earth will continue too exist, as will the environment, but in which way and will it be able to support life, that is another question.
The way things are going at the moment, climate change or none, the Earth is already very sick due to man's wholesale exploitation of resources.
At this current moment we, who live on this Earth, are using the resources of three planets. This is were we must change, for we have but one Planet, and we must reign in our exploitation and abuse of the Earth and Her resources.
If we do not then it does not matter what we do, whether we can stop climate change or not, for we will be doomed anyway.
What would it profit us if we managed to stop the climate change only to have no living soil and no drinkable water left; just as an example? And, to be perfectly frank and honest, the way we are going this soon could be the case.
Time for a total U-turn and that rather rapido and a total rethink of how we live on this Planet.
We must learn from the Native Americans, the Australian Aborigines and also the true Romani People as to how to treat the Earth, our Mother, and how to live in harmony with Her and not fighting Her.
Fritz Schumacher said: “Modern man does not experience himself as a part of but as an outside force destined to dominate and conquer it. He even talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side.”
So, let us rethink our relationship with Mother.
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