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Originally Posted by Hakan
Slow it down. Good one. Maybe Ray Nagin should have been holding planning meetings, committee meetings, and an council meeting with guest speakers 3 days before they knew a giant hurricane was going to hit them to make sure they slowed it down and got it right so that five hours before the hurricane hit they all were at a consensus that yes the hurricane would hit them and that they decided to undertake the optimal policies that would save money and be the most efficient. Actually that probably would have taken 2 years.
Yeah, they should have planned for that two years in advance. That's exactly what we should be doing right friggin now instead of debating whether or not it's happening.
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That analogy is simply brutal.
A hurricane can be tracked, quantified, and evaluated well before it lands on humanity and causes damage. They can get it wrong when it comes to landing point, wind speed and category, but not in the fact that it actually exists or not.
global warming isn't that.
It just isn't.
There's been climate change compared to recent data, but while one camp sees that as man made effects an another sees it as a cyclical issue, and I haven't seen either side proven right or wrong.
I personally believe that man has to have an effect, and that being more enviromentally friendly is a good cause regardless of the plan of attack for the individual. But governments shouldn't blindly follow a lemming over a cliff just because the majority of lemmings before him think it's a good idea.
I'm with bobblehead though ... effeciency changes should be made because they make sense on their own. Signing on to global pacts that are based on flawed science, may cripple economies and funnel credit funds to third world countries whos use of said funds can't be traced is lunacy.
But save me the apple falling from the tree analogies because they don't hold water.
And to think, from the beginning I never questioned the seriousness of the issue or the need to take said issue serious. Just that with so many differing opinions it's bloody dangerous to plug your ears and yell lalalalala when you hear something that doesn't fit with what you consider fact.
Science told us to stop using wood cutting boards because they get grooved and collect bacteria in their cuts but to use plastic. Then they said to use wood because the wood was more porous allowing a flow through while the plastic pooled the bacteria.
Lets just say I haven't thrown out either the wood or the plastic. I'm staying tuned.