Global Warming? Of Course.

This blog will be a learning experience for me for a while. Hopefully for a long time, since I try to learn as much as I can about essentially everything I can. Whenever and wherever I can. But there are way too many details in life to remember everything I want to, so I usually try to remember general principles and look up whatever details I need.

This was an email I wrote to a group of people last March in response to a previous email from another member of the same group. I decided to post it here with only very slight editing to be my first post on this blog.

Around 60 years ago, I remember that one of my school teachers was talking about how we were going to warm up the earth a little bit by burning things and putting smoke in the air. She wasn't sure whether the warming had actually started or not, if I remember correctly.

I didn't really understand it at that time, but I'm an adult now. As a moderately well informed adult, I can certainly understand glaciers melting nearly all over the globe, after having survived for tens and hundreds of millennia. And longer. I understand that certain kinds of birds are flying south later than before and flying north earlier than before (in the northern hemisphere where I live), because of longer warm weather seasons. I understand that it must mean something when a variety of wild plants and animals are gradually moving north from the lands they have grown in for very long periods of time. I understand that it must also mean something unusual when the arctic ice pack is disappearing and a chunk of Antarctic ice as big as a medium-sized state literally breaks off and floats on the ocean.

When 2,000 scientists from 154 countries agree on essentially these things and add that worldwide temperatures in 11 out of the past 12 years were among the hottest ever recorded, it seems like it might be time to see if we can do something to prevent the changes from becoming catastrophic. They also said that there is at least a 90 percent probability that these changing conditions are man made, but I don't see that as being very important. The results for our children and grandchildren will be the same either way, and most of them will not be good.

I have not seen Al Gore's documentary yet, but I intend to before I write one or more articles on the subject of global warming for http://www.nobull.ws/.

Note: I finally saw Gore's documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. Partly because of it, I am convinced more than ever that global climate change is here and that we caused it. If we don't take drastic steps to start undoing the damage, it may soon be too late to prevent the calamities our world is about to experience. Unfortunately, almost nobody is even mentioning that reducing world population dramatically and rapidly is the only possible way to do it.

No, I am not a prophet. I'm just trying to use "common sense." Unfortunately, common sense has never been common enough.