Wow, this thread is embarrassing.
My takeaways:
- God created this earth and will take care of everything in the end. A book written by men, found in the desert says so and God gave us dominion to "have at it"...so we are.
- Science is deemed all wrong since some past scientific theorems were proven wrong, hence all science is forever wrong now and in the future, believe nothing except Fox News.
- A newspaper cartoonist's joke is more credible than any well educated scientists postulations. Plus it's funny and that's more important.
- It's cold today at my house, and hence by default the world is also cold, screw the polar bears as they were not asked for their opinion.
- I drive a 4X4 truck, I am to blame but won't admit it.
- A highly educated physicist can theorize the existence of black holes in the universe strictly by mathematics and observations of heavenly bodies in motion, then in a few years find the proof...yet he will be told he is full of crap because the pseudo-science of Phrenology was a hoax a hundred years ago. 2+2=5 always (1984)
- We live in a democracy where the masses have reached critical population density.
- We are all doomed
Here is the truth: (Warning-Big Words Ahead)
All the vegetation and marine-life that was laid down in the Carboniferous, Ordovician, Devonian and a few other eras that turned into the coal and oil/gas we burn today came from a very warm, humid land with oceans and land masses not what they are today. CO2 levels were very high, high enough to promote that huge growth and trap the heat that plants and organisms loved. (Hell, only a billion years before that, oxygen was not even in our atmosphere before cyano-bacteria showed up). Through 10's of millions and millions of years of gradual sequestration of carbon in dead, buried plant life, CO2 levels slowly came down as the carbon was locked up in coal and oil, and the earth cooled a bit.
In a process that took 10's of millions of years to lock it down, guess what happens when it is released very quickly? Go ahead...guess! In about a hundred man years, millions of years worth of carbon is released, global average temp goes up, maybe 2-4C worldwide, no biggie right? But almost unseen by Joe-Plumber is that oceans slowly rise, ice caps melt, CO2 dissolves into the oceans decreasing pH and the coral dies since it cant make carbonate, sea levels rise and millions of people who live along coasts will be flooded. Thousands of species of animals will perish because they cannot react quick enough. Sure, it will be a good thing for plants, plants love extra CO2 gas, corn will thrive!!!...and yes, people will survive because we have technology to adapt. You may not care about coastal people in Sri Lanka, or Bangladesh, or even along the Gulf of Mexico, but sooner or later you will.
Now, you may call the science of Carboniferous eras and such BS, because that's maybe your thing to BS what you do not know. But like another poster here, I also work in the oil and gas industry as a chemist. Guess how the highly paid geologists working in O&G exploration look for new oil fields? Yes...they look for the geologies of the eras it was produced, looking for evidence a certain shale 500 feet down was actually Ordovician or Devonian or Carboniferous. See, the O&G guys know the science of it all, they know how this whole thing works, but the billions of $ have them believing if it's not them, then it will be someone else who gets rich, so the take the money and run. Sad thing is the general masses have no f'ing idea and as this thread shows..do not want to know.
But hey...no where is that on Fox News or in the Bible, so it's fake news.