Global Warming 2007
Global Warming 2007
March 30, 2007
I was watching T.V. last night and heard Al Gore talking about the seriousness of Global Warming and the need to take immediate meaningful action to greatly reduce the United States and global output of carbon dioxide. He reported on the accelerating history of global warming over the 20th century and record high temperatures around the world just in the previous 10 years which have caused ice melting, weather changes, famines, water shortages, diseases, plant and animal failings. Al Gore was predicting worsening consequences in the future if the world failed to act. Al Gore was delivering his speech to the Kyoto Conference in Japan in 1997. I was watching this rerun on CSPAN's history channel.
In the past 10 years almost no meaningful action has taken place in the United States or the world to reduce global warming. Any reduction savings have been wiped out by CO2 output expansion by more energy use, industrial expansion, increase in population, city and farming expansions, and the political and corporation stalling and sabotage. Al Gore and President Clinton were not able to change much or ratify the Kyoto CO2 reduction standards because of republican and corporation controlled congress. George Bush and Dick Cheney have supported the oil and energy industries and spread skepticism and thus complacency by using corporate fake scientists to deny human causes of global warming. They believed that the forces of God were responsible for "climate change" as has happened for millions of years of evolution. I find it rather odd how those evangelical Republicans can preach a long history of God using natural evolutionary climate change and occasional weather mutations to bear false witness against overwhelming scientific facts of recent human factors. Any meaningful political action has been frozen by the Republicans over the last seven years of the Bush administration. Meanwhile global warming has accelerated and is melting the polar ice regions, and the manmade weather related changes have become obvious.
Can the Republicans' God save the world now? Perhaps. Maybe God will send plagues upon the earth to wipe out most humans except for a sustainable number less than one billion, well less than the six and a half billion current and quickly expanding population.
Can the corporations' God of technology and free market capitalism save the world now from the suffocating related effects of global warming. Perhaps. Maybe the corporate controlled political powers of the world will fight over the remaining dwindling oil reserves left in the world and then unleash their nuclear and chemical weapons of mass destruction to wipe out most of the world population by spreading radiation, pollution and disease around the world to make the effects of global warming a mute and insignificant problem.
Do I sound like a skeptic, pessimist and a doom and gloomer? Yes. Can I find much hope for the future in the past 10 years? Not enough to save the future.