“Chicken Little was in the woods one day when an corn fell on her head. It scared her so much she trembled all over. She shook so hard, half her feathers fell out. “Help! Help!” she cried. “The sky is falling! I have to go tell the king!”
The chicken story turned into Hollywood blockbuster movie by Al Gore`s “An Inconvenient Truth”.
Most of us do not understand the relations between global warming, and its uncertain etiology, while they blame our way of living as a cause of it, and the unrealistic result will be that if we don’t take a mission to protect our planet now, the sky will fall and our will collapse!
Fluctuating weather patterns have been with us forever, but our ability to study them is only quite recent. Even if a significant warming is actually happening, but by Nature, not us humans, then there is no point to throw the world’s economy down.
Global warming by its believers is a theory that burning fossil fuels like oil and coal (hydrocarbons) releases gases like Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and Methane into the atmosphere in such large amounts that the planet is warming up uncontrollably.
Al Gore has some valid points in his provoking documentary, for example that temperatures are actually rising, the adverse effects of CO2 for our health and environment, and that global warming will cause serious damage if left unchecked, and that there are many things governments and people can do to reduce its impact.
Nine inconvenient untruths were found in his documentary by the judge in the High Court of London, saying that some of the claims were wrong and had emerged “in the context of alarmism and exaggeration”.
I believe the fact that we humans are polluting the earth, but I do not believe and accept the fact that climate change is totally anthropogenic. I agree with the fact that we should protect our planet, and our environment from CO2 together with any other harmful gases, in order to live in a cleaner and healthier environment.
At the same time I believe than many like Mr. Gore are not lying, they are just exaggerating facts like the chicken Little story for their on benefits, or because they really believe it.
I’m not discussing whether global warming exists or not, but rather that the facts are exaggerated and we humans do not have to go back to riding camels to save the world, and make wealthy the initiators of all this. If global warming is true, then it is one of the biggest crisis mankind has faced, however there are good reasons to believe it is utterly wrong and thus swallowing the lie that global warming is totally anthropogenic and in the near future our world will collapse will cost each of us thousands of dollars a year and cause the collapse of western civilization.
A.K
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article2633838.ece
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