{"id":3989,"date":"2013-04-22T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allandouglas.com\/blog\/?p=3989"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:40","slug":"when-being-green-makes-you-blue-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/when-being-green-makes-you-blue-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"When Being Green Makes You Blue: Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Today is Earth Day; a day set aside to review and speculate about our conservation efforts and to show support for those initiatives designed to preserve the natural functioning of our planet and promote activities to reduce our \u201cfootprint\u201d on its ecological well being.<\/p>\n

Anyone who has been reading my work knows that being ecologically conscious is important to me; I endorse reducing waste, support recycling to conserve resources and reduce landfill clutter.\u00a0 My articles often encourage everyone to find ways to re-use their cast-offs by selling or donating things they don\u2019t want to those who do.\u00a0 I write regularly for the local chapter of Keep America Beautiful.<\/p>\n

We designed our home to be as energy efficient as we could make it – within our means. We are growing a good portion of our food, and doing so without herbicides and pesticides. And I try to share what I learn about all this with you; my Dear Readers.<\/p>\n

My article on Pocono raceway becoming the largest solar powered sports facility, and other Green initiatives within my favorite spectator sport was just published by Sportales eZine.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreen living\u201d is important to me.\u00a0 However there are some aspects of the modern ecology movement that I can not buy into; particularly Global Warming.<\/p>\n

I will not launch into a diatribe on the issue; I am not a scientist and I can not prove anything one way or the other.\u00a0 But from studying the facts presented by others, I come away with an uneasy sense that some folks are screaming \u201cthe sky is falling, the sky is falling\u201d because they got knocked on the noggin by an acorn.\u00a0 All of the empirical data being used to \u201cprove\u201d global warming has been mapped from the period from about 1900 to the present.\u00a0 On the basis of an increase in temperature over the past 100 or so years these folk project out a dire and unnatural escalation of global temperatures, and they *speculate* on what is causing it.<\/p>\n

This movement is rapidly becoming more of a socio-political tool than a concern for ecology.<\/p>\n

Other scientists have used geologic data to chart out global temperatures over the past 4,500 years, and they report global temperatures look like this:<\/p>\n

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Note that there is a regular and repeating cycle of up and down, hot and cold.\u00a0 This indicates that such fluctuations are perfectly normal.\u00a0 Maybe not comfortable, but normal.\u00a0 And by trying to force the entire planet to maintain an even temperature, we may be doing more harm than good.<\/p>\n

Who is right?\u00a0 I can\u2019t say for sure.\u00a0 But I do know that my own observations of the world over the course of my own life, indicates that the world runs in cycles.\u00a0 Expecting to maintain one, even temperature forever is unreasonable.<\/p>\n

I am all for reducing the impact we have on the world around us.\u00a0 But, stirring up a panic over something that is so unprovable, and hotly debated as this seems rather pointless to me.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s just my two cents worth.\u00a0 What do you think?<\/p>\n