Therapeutic Ranting
27 Nov 2009 00:23![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patentdragonI'm not in the best of moods, so I'm gonna bitch about something for a bit.
Meanwhile... BBC discussion programme Question Time is a right laugh, every now and again, particular when someone dares to suggest that "Global Warming" isn't the untouchable Holy Grail "the experts" would like it to be. Dissent, and you're as bad as a Holocaust denier. Personally, I accept that climate change is happening right now, because it always has been - I'm sure I've already ranted about the last Ice Age, and how it couldn't have been cavemen in their gas-guzzling people-carriers, leaving their TV sets on stand-by that cause the climate change that melted the glaciers covering half the freakin' planet.
Evidence? You want evidence? How about the fossil coral reefs halfway up mountains, and Arthropleura - 300 million years ago, my neighbourhood was crawling with them; giant millipedes as long as an estate car. How come we don't have those any more? Simple - back in the Upper Carboniferous Period, the oxygen content of the air was significantly higher, allowing invertebrates to grow substantially larger than they do today. If that isn't "climate change", what is it...?
It was good to see at least someone ask just what we're doing to ensure humanity survives the impending climatic chaos - what if we can't fix it overnight with all your bloody windmills and "carbon off-setting"? Shoddy thinking, people - just plain shoddy.
And finally.. ...and just to piss me off, this is going to have a Friday posting date, again messing up my attempts to post as close to an entry-a-day. Grrr...
Meanwhile... BBC discussion programme Question Time is a right laugh, every now and again, particular when someone dares to suggest that "Global Warming" isn't the untouchable Holy Grail "the experts" would like it to be. Dissent, and you're as bad as a Holocaust denier. Personally, I accept that climate change is happening right now, because it always has been - I'm sure I've already ranted about the last Ice Age, and how it couldn't have been cavemen in their gas-guzzling people-carriers, leaving their TV sets on stand-by that cause the climate change that melted the glaciers covering half the freakin' planet.
Evidence? You want evidence? How about the fossil coral reefs halfway up mountains, and Arthropleura - 300 million years ago, my neighbourhood was crawling with them; giant millipedes as long as an estate car. How come we don't have those any more? Simple - back in the Upper Carboniferous Period, the oxygen content of the air was significantly higher, allowing invertebrates to grow substantially larger than they do today. If that isn't "climate change", what is it...?
It was good to see at least someone ask just what we're doing to ensure humanity survives the impending climatic chaos - what if we can't fix it overnight with all your bloody windmills and "carbon off-setting"? Shoddy thinking, people - just plain shoddy.
And finally.. ...and just to piss me off, this is going to have a Friday posting date, again messing up my attempts to post as close to an entry-a-day. Grrr...
