Here we go again - Updated


Dealing with global warming true believers
I think my name and email addy are being passed around on a list somewhere. I've gotten the reputation as "the Pagan who isn't green."

Since starting this blog, I've gotten into ten email debates over global warming. I've written about my views, you can find the link in the archives section of the sidebar.

So far these conversations follow an exacting pattern. Some latest news of ice caps melting is trotted out as "undeniable" proof that humans are destroying the planet.

Well, I do agree that some humans are harming the planet, but I don't agree they are causing global warming. There needs to be some sort of traceable cause and effect.

If someone pollutes the air, we can show that. We can measure the pollution in the air, we can trace it back to it's source. Same with polluting water. Tracking an illegal dump is harder but still possible. The point is, there is a measurable change in condition that we can track back to human activity. I can measure paint spilled on the ground, I can't measure average temperatures increasing.

Especially since radical weather changes happened several times on Earth before humans achieved their present technological prowess.

Even the way we measure widespread temperature has changed several times over the last century or so.

Unless someone can show me a specific link to a human activity, I have to conclude it's a coincidence and not cause and effect.

That doesn't mean trotting out a computer model. Models are dependent on assumptions. I've played computer games where I had the power of life and death over entire civilizations, That doesn't mean I can stop the sun from rising by snapping by fingers at precisely 10:13 the night before.

Without establishing a link between human action and global warming, the only basis I have for judging the ideas comes from politics and economics.

And in which case, it comes off as socialism. Perhaps benevolent socialism at first, but socialism all the same. That would have catastrophic consequences on the economy, human freedom, and humanity in general. That is why I can't support the proposals to "prevent global warming."

As a Pagan, I find it ironic that the solution to "global warming" reduces the living planet to little more than a thing, barely kept alive in a poorly built display and permanently under the dominion of self-appointed prophets.

Depending on the person, the global warming argument is either a cult or politics masking itself as a religion. Either way, no one wants to hear any dissent.

There are other, less destructive ways to honor both humanity and the planet.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Fri - October 28, 2005 at 05:01 AM  Tag


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