Climate Change Report

[Jeril]

This is always amusing. It should be obvious by the number of people there are and how much of the planet we cover that we affect it. We can't really say whether it is good or bad for the planet or not because we have no idea what it would be like without us. We don't even really know how what we are doing is going to impact things in the long run, we are just guessing and grasping at straws. When it is all said and done the planet will still be here, the question is will we? Jarvan does raise some good points, if 90%+ scientists have agreed we should be doing something, why aren't they changing the direction of their research? Letting a small portion of people who disagree hold you back is rather silly. We should be pushing for nuclear power and further research in that direction because it is the most likely place for us to find better sources of energy. We also need more research and development on solar energy, last I heard it only really works because the government gives people money and tax breaks because of it, it really needs to be more self sustaining.

I also wonder just how many environmentalist have children and how many with more then two. They are supposedly worried about our footprint on the planet yet they continue to add to it. Someone posted a theory that the world population will become stable around 10bil, I'd bet good money that it doesn't. In order for that to become even remotely true you'd have to have most of the third world countries up to the level of tech, life style, ect, that we have here in American now.