The climate change blame game is a null point

By JLBane

I’ve sat quietly on the sidelines watching the recourse between one point of view and another over climate change for quite some time. If you believe in it you’re a gullible eco-nazi; if you don’t believe in it you’re an ignorant planet killer with no respect for the Earth.

In choosing to respect nature and trying to co-habit with my environment as sensitively as possible, I am in fact being forced to take a ‘side’, and I really don’t appreciate that.

There is a war of sorts raging behind the outwardly civil political rhetoric, and it seems the pendulum is currently swinging towards the anti-AGW squad.

Most people don’t want to be bothered with climate problems, especially if it’s caused by humans, because it challenges their way of living, and most people are too comfortable in their world of limited responsibility.

Nobody wants to believe that they are responsible for damaging the planet.

It seems the biggest bone of contention with climate change is which way the finger of blame should point. Some say it’s a man made occurrence while others say it’s the sun heating up the entire solar system, and further contributors say it’s not even happening at all.

My view is a little more pragmatic. We don’t need to blame anyone, the planet is warming up and we’re not – en masse – helping matters.

There are good and bad arguments for all cases, but if it is the sun warming up the entire solar system, as in fairness has been partially evidenced by images of ice caps on Mars melting and Jupiter’s moons also thawing out; it’s funny that the effects on our planet have coincided with the upturn in car numbers on the roads this past century.

We’ve seen more extreme weather conditions which have led to freak heat waves, forest fires and the worst recorded droughts for 130 years in Russia, while last year Pakistan suffered the worst flooding in its history, claiming 1781 lives in its wake.

2010 was the second hottest year recorded, with previous years showing an incremental increase and 2011 set to be warmer still.

Pure coincidence of course.

I can’t verify the validity of solar evidence as I don’t have the equipment needed to see that far, and if I did I wouldn’t know what I was looking for; I’m not a scientist, but I do know that Mars follows a more elliptical orbital pattern than earth which takes it closer to the sun, and with no oceans and only a thin atmosphere it is far more susceptible to climate aberrations.

In my mind the question shouldn’t be, “Who is to blame for global warming?” It should be, “Do we want to breathe in fumes and have our cities and landscapes obscured by plumes of smog and toxic emissions?”

The answer for me is of course a resounding NO. How about you?

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