[AGL] Humans are a force of nature

[Connie Clark]

Frances Morey <frances_morey at yahoo.com> wrote:    . There could possibly be reasons for the melt down other than the human penchant for using up petroleum products for energy. 
   
  Frances,
  This fact is discussed and tracked by scientists ad nauseum and graphically illustrated in the book and movie.  It is humans who are creating an exponential warming at this time and on a lively pace set to cause catastrophic results if we don't start curbing our fossil fuel consumption- the US in particular.  We can do it, just as we slowed and reversed the hole in the ozone layer by taking CFCs out of production. 
   
  Gore is on his tour partly at the behest, as he said, of the frustrated scientists who have been telling these facts for a long time. Oil companys have used your argument about natural warming to convince politicians and public that there is a debate - there is no debate in the scientific community about the cause of the current global warming trend.  Gore has tried unsuccessfully for too long to get politicians (including Clinton during their administration) to act on it - now he says, he is going directly to the people.
   
  The audience in the movies are quiet, and come away from it with the stark reality of the whole scientific story. The disaster of a 20' increase in sea level will be a lot more than just relocating populations.  Climate change affects food source, spread of disease and pestilence.  Just because you live in the hill country doesn't give you a safe haven.
   
  Ask yourself sometime, btw, what is the agenda of the 'scientists' who are trying to discredit the evidence of human intervention of global warming.  Is it just too much trouble for us to change any of our lifestyles to curb greenhouse gases?  Only if you are dependent on income from oil consumption.
   
  Connie

 		
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