Sunday, April 16, 2006

lets call them all roses

Interesting article Canada, maybe check it out:

Scientist Silenced; 15 Kyoto Prgrams axed

I have one qualm though, and this is a serious one: Human impact on global climate change. We never refer to it as the human impact, only as global warming, or gcc. but Global climate change is a part of the geologic cycle it is inevitable, it is a natural part of the changing cycle of the earth. If we look back to the devonian, and the don river deposits there is suggestion that toronto averaged 3 or 4 degrees centigrade higher than current average temperatures. If we check out deposits and growth patters from the 1820-1850 we see average temperatures 3-5 degrees cooler than current temperature levels. Clearly there were entire ice ages in our geologic history. So what am i going on about then? im concerned about the HUMAN IMPACT, what am i doing that is impacting this cycle, and what can i do to impact it less, let it follow its natural geologic timeline.

some will argue that humans are a part of the equation now and so we don't have to do much in either direction, we just are. but come on...we aren't alone here. we have the knowledge and technology to minimize our footprints on this planet. i mean most other species do their part to minimize their respective impacts (except for maybe the pig...discusting creatures...j/k) but it begins by taking possession of what it is. It isn't just a grand happening, or a geologic process that we want to hault or slow it is OUR IMPACT on those processes. So Stephan Harper should be slashing money to programs that reduce how humans affect gcc, or programs that allow humans to produce more fossil fuels and destructive toxins for the environment.

all i can say is go ahead, lets turn this planet back into a reducing environment, that was the best time in natural history, endless chemical potential.

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