Global Warming is, of course, a very contrversial topic. All I can really say is that the earth's temperatures and climate have shifted and changed a lot over history, and the kinds of weird temperatures and changes we are experiancing were probably experianced by people in pre historic times, but they didn't try to pass it off with a bunch of guilt tripping and doomsday theories. Whatever the case, global warmnig or not, there will be another Ice Age. Not soon, but there will be. We are in an interglacial, a period between ice ages. Global Warming is simply temperature fluxuations that are natural. We aren't helping things with burning fossil fuels or producing greenhouse gasses, but the effect of them will take hundreds and hundreds of years, or at least a helluva lot longer than the media says. Like I said in my earlier post, Global Warming is a big publicity stunt. The Media can keep us interested with it, and can make us give lots of money with all the guilt tripping that gets dumped on us. If Hybrid cars are so great for the enviroment, why don't they give them out for free? Sure, you'd lose lots of money, but if the enviroment is so much more important than cash, then money is no object. If Al Gore had really wanted to change the world with his two hour power point presentation, he would have let people in for free, to educate them on Global Warming without making them pay for it. Someone in one of my science classes said how Hybrid Cars are so great because they are good for the enviroment. I pointed out that most people can't afford them, and this person just replied with "Anything to stop GLobal Warming..." If this is the mindframe people are in, then it is truly sad. We will willingly fork over shitloads of money to "stop Global Warming." But do the people who recieve this money have to give money out, in proportion to the money recieved, to stop global warming?

In Michael Crichton's novel "State of Fear," he presents the theory that the Media wants to keep us all in a strict state of fear, hence the title of the book. He shows how the theory of Global Warming was revealed shortly (within a month) after the end of the Cold War. If the Cold War is over, what can the media keep the world in a State of Fear about? Cue Global Warming. Hell, I think when we're all gone, our ancestors won't even be hearing abotu Global Warming. They'll be hearing about the next big Media Stunt. Aliens on a collision course with earth, or some bullshit like that.

Of course, no matter what I say, I can't stop people set on Global Warming to stop believing in it. It's more like a faith, a huge emotion, then scientific fact or logic anymore.