Sunday, August 5, 2007
Global Warming Squared
The politicians have done it once again. They have solved a crisis by creating a new one. Global warming is melting the ice caps so that soon enough all the sea ice in the Arctic will be gone during the summer. What should we do about it? Why fight over who gets to drill for all the fossil fuels buried on the arctic sea bed of course! Just last Thursday, Russia tried to make its claims to the underwater resources stronger by planting a flag on the sea floor. You know what that means. It means that the US needs a larger flag to put in its place. Just you wait; that will be the headline tomorrow, I'm sure.
When are we going to figure out that we can't just take all the carbon ever buried in the history of our planet and put it in the atmosphere. It won't be good for us. Our planet hasn't always been hospitable to our form of life, and it took a good long time for a bunch of microscopic organisms to make our atmosphere what it is today. After that, it took a good long time for organisms to figure out how to use all this potentially toxic oxygen to their advantage. If we mess all this up, it will take another good long time for another sentient species to come along and use our fossilized remains to screw it all up again, if that ever happens.
The time has come for renewable energy. Now. I'm no energy expert, but there sure are a lot of them out there, and if we just put them all in a room and told them not to come out until they have this whole mess figured out, we would be a lot better off.
I hope you have enjoyed my ramblings. Please go ahead and return to your regularly scheduled programing.
When are we going to figure out that we can't just take all the carbon ever buried in the history of our planet and put it in the atmosphere. It won't be good for us. Our planet hasn't always been hospitable to our form of life, and it took a good long time for a bunch of microscopic organisms to make our atmosphere what it is today. After that, it took a good long time for organisms to figure out how to use all this potentially toxic oxygen to their advantage. If we mess all this up, it will take another good long time for another sentient species to come along and use our fossilized remains to screw it all up again, if that ever happens.
The time has come for renewable energy. Now. I'm no energy expert, but there sure are a lot of them out there, and if we just put them all in a room and told them not to come out until they have this whole mess figured out, we would be a lot better off.
I hope you have enjoyed my ramblings. Please go ahead and return to your regularly scheduled programing.
