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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
Good post, Lanny.
Here's what I don't get. Gas prices are at 26 year highs in the U.S. It literally costs thousands of dollars a year to drive an SUV in the city. Heating oil costs are through the roof, natural gas prices are no picnic either, and electricity is far less cheap than it was even seven years ago.
Shouldn't people love the idea of alternative energy sources? Right now the fossil fuel economy is giving it to consumers hard, and the economic impact of that (usually a lagging indicator, as I understand it) will only be felt in months to come. To those that claim that reducing carbon emissions is bound to result in a global economic catastrophe--are you so sure that the same catastrophe won't result from staying the course? I'm no economist, but current conditions sure don't seem sustainable to my untrained eye.
We've had this discussion numerous times on this board--and it does somewhat boggle my mind that there are still people who think that global warming skepticism is as legitimate scientifically as the thousands of scientists who are producing sound research that illustrates our impact on global warming very clearly.
This is one of those areas where people feel entitled to appoint themselves armchair scientists for some reason--personally, I'm going to trust the reputable scientists over a few think-tank bozos and one or two washed up, aging, tenure-system parasites at third rate schools. Maybe that's just me.
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I don't think you'll find a single soul on this board who wouldn't jump at alternative energy solutions. Especially with the latest jump in gas prices. And I agree, we most certainly can not continue this way. But, many people feel an alternative such a wind power is viable, and a healthy environmental choice. Will it is...to a point. That point is when the wind stops blowing, which is does throughout the summer, and suddenly those windmills leave a HUGE gap in the energy grid. That is the EXACT reason why no more contracts are being given out to build more windmills in the Pincher Creek area. More windmills...might equal a lessor dependence on fossil fuels....but they also equal a bigger electricity loss in the grid once they all stop turning. I can see around 100 windmills from where I am right now, and NONE of them are turning.
And, I have yet, in ALL the global warming threads combined, seen a single person DENY that global warming exists. Up here in Calgary, and southern Alberta, we only need to look outside during winter, and think back 15 years ago, and how the weather was then, compared to now.
The 'global warming denier' term gets tossed around A LOT on here, and frankly, I'm sick of it. Those of us who are still skeptical about what causes it, are suddenly global warming deniers? WTF?