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Would Global Cooling Have Chilled Our Ancestors Had They Been Around?

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It's also time to take a look at some of the things we're doing in the name of preventing global warming, most of which are as harmful as what we're already doing.

One example is corn for ethanol.  The price of corn has been driven up so high that poor Mexicans literally stormed the ramparts of Mexico City's seat of government to protest the skyrocketing prices.  If you're a poor Mexican and you can't afford corn for tortillas, you have no daily bread.

There's also the question of producing the corn and the energy it takes to make ethanol.

Then there's the nickel used is some environmentally-friendly products.  The cost of mining the nickel, shipping it all over the world for refining and then shipping it back here, should make someone stop and think how much those activities are hurting the environment, and in its own way contributing to global warming.

Before we jump off the cliff and into all kinds of schemes to fight nature, maybe we should think about some of the alternative we're considering.

Before you send me a bunch of comments accusing me of being a global warming denier and a flat Earther, all I'm saying is it might be time to rethink what we're doing.

I don't want the Earth to warm; it's more than hot enough for me where I live now, nor do I want to see animals become extinct or the world's coast flooded out or existence.  Well, maybe Florida.  

If we are contributing to and hastening global warming, we can change how we do things and make considered wise choices, but we can't stop it.  It's up to us to prepare for what nature has on her agenda, not how we'd like things to be.

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Sandy Sand began her writing career while raising three children and doing public relations work for Women's American ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training). That led to a job as a reporter for the San Fernando Valley Chronicle, a (more...)
 

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Gee by Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo on Friday, Dec 21, 2007 at 12:57:51 PM
Oh by Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo on Friday, Dec 21, 2007 at 1:03:25 PM
Good god. common sense is alive...whoudathunkit by mikel paul on Friday, Dec 21, 2007 at 2:36:08 PM
The big chill... by Pappy on Saturday, Dec 22, 2007 at 2:40:09 AM

 
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