Global Warming and it's Connection With . . ." Little House on the Prarie " .. . . . .?

Question

I'm gonna try and put this in the simplest terms . And to remove the 'emotion' from the argument, I chose to use the example of Charles Ingalls and company .
If it was determined that Global Warming was influenced by mankind during the 1800's.. . . . . . Do ya think Charles and friends would've STOPPED burning wood to heat their homes ? Or would they more likely have continued burning wood to SAVE THEIR LIVES ?
Today, fossil fuels are used to heat the homes of most of the East Coast and other areas of the country to a lesser extent . Should they STOP ?
Or should we acknowledge that, even if true, it will take DECADES to even make a dent in the process ? Thereby stopping the hatred and blame of one President ?

Voice of Freedom - Now that's funny !!!!!

Pachl - that has to qualify as one of the most inept replies that I have ever seen . But that's just me. . . . .I'm sure there's 'others' who would agree with such notions !!

I'd like to edit my last response and give the award, or even 2 awards, to your buddy below you !! WOW MAN, WOW !!

Suggestion : Read Meathook's answer . I think it's a good one !!

Answer 1

Earnest T, you know that I agree with you on the Global Warming debate. However I don't see anyone, anywhere suggesting that we need to stop burning fossil fuels tomorrow for Global Warming or any other reasons. We DO need to move away from our dependence on foreign oil for economic and ecological reasons. We just need some incentive to make the transition. If we don't every body of water will be showing large amounts of MTBE, acid rain will continue to plaugue areas of the country that rely on coal burning power plants and resperatory illness will continue to rise in the nation's youth.

Even old Charles would have worked to find better way to keep his family warm if he knew the pollution from his woodstove was detrimental to his crop production. He wouldn't do it immediately as he does need to keep the wife warm so she will continue to practice making babies with him, but its in all of their best interest to make a move away from the woodstove.

I do agree that blaming the President is ludicrous. First of all, Kyoto was voted down unanimously in the Senate when it was brought in for confirmation in 1997. What would make President Bush think that it would receive different treatment today? Heck even Al Gore admitted while he was VP that the US will not participate in the agreement until developing nations are a part of it.

And how does equating Global Warming with Little House take the emotion out of it. Even I cried when Mary started to go blind. Come on.

Answer 2

Cows (from passing gas ie farting) create more bad gases (methane) for the environment then trains, planes, and cars combined. It is also funny that about 95% of the meteorologists (the people that study weather as a job) do not believe in global warming. The planet is going through changes, it has since day 1. Remember nothing lasts forever... What do you blame the aging of an old women on? Continue to warm your home!

Answer 3

GW (global warming) is a natural climate change process - Warming / Cooling has existed before humankind walked the earth - Fossil Fuels are a myth / anyone who believes that the oil and related products we extract from the earth came from the rotting remains of dinosaurs should also be piloting flying saucers to Mars and other planets and galaxies! The core of the earth is a molten mass of material that contributes many things to the structure of our planet; Crude oil is a byproduct / process created by the action of that molten core of the earth. All the goonies running around today spewing all their moronic thoughts and ideas concerning 'Man's (George Bush’s) destruction of the planet are just decedents of our superstitious ancestors that used to sacrifice animals & humans to the 'gods'.

Mother Earth is a living, breathing entity. She is constantly going through changes caused by her internal structure and make up. Climate, weather patterns, atmosphere, rivers, salt water oceans are all part of her system to constantly cleanse herself. She is impacted by external forces also - The sun, other planets, and other things we don't even know about. I am surprised that I haven't heard that George Bush brought about an increase in solar flares in the past few years!

While we do need to be responsible as far as recycling, controlling unnecessary contaminants, and just utilizing the earths energy sources intelligently, burning fuels and using energy to advance humankinds existence on the planet is not destroying Mother Earth.........

PDM

Answer 4

Recent reports by the UN and other agencies have surprisingly added doubt to the global warming theory. It seems that human intervention may not be doing that much to alter the climate.

However, that doesn't mean that we should stop trying. Fighting CO2 emissions is a feel-good mission that everyone can take pride in supporting. It may turn out that we haven't done any good at all by taking stern measures to lessen the emissions. It may turn out that we hurt a lot of world economies through our insistence. But, it's something we can all rally around and feel good about. Positive results are just icing on the cake. We should just do it because it makes us feel like we're accomplished something, whether we have or not.

And no, I don't agree we should stop blaming the President. He has a plane..... more than one in fact. Why can't he fly to Barbra Streisand's house and tell that old bitty to stop heating her pool and air conditioning her warehouse of memorabilia? Why can't he go to Japan and demand that the Japanese stop using wooden chop sticks in favor of knives and forks like normal people?

The President is supposed to be able to do anything. He's not Superman, but if something is wrong, it's his fault. So, if there really is global warming, he should stop it. If it turns out our efforts to halt global warming are doing more harm than good, than it's his fault if he doesn't try to stop us.

Answer 5

I already acknowledge it!

I would, however, be very careful about talking about liberals "placing blame on the president". They'll get their panties all in a bunch over it.

Now, it's true that no one's blaming him for STARTING it, but I find it interesting that this is only a political issue NOW, after he became president. And I know many blame him for backing away from the Kyoto Treaty... Another crock, IMHO...

Still, I think what you're proposing is asking a bit much of liberals. Sorry man.

Answer 6

Ice core samples have shown that at one of the coldest points in the Earth's history, we also had one of the highest levels of Carbon dioxide in the air. Ruining the supposed correlation between carbon dioxide and global temperture.

Carbon dioxide has increased from 250 parts PER MILLION to 375 parts PER MILLION. This is a statistically insignificant rise.
(250/1,000,000 = .000250) versus (375/1,000,000 = .000375).

Think about it, as a percentage of atmosphere Co2 has increased only .000125....thats not even close to being 1% it clock in WAY below.

Man-made global warming is junk science. Global temps are increasing because of the sun's cycles....this is also why the "ice caps" on Mars are currently melting too.

Answer 7

Laura tried to stop Daddy, she said "please no more Carbon Dioxide, the cows already make enough methane to destroy the world!" But Daddy wouldn't listen, he was Hell-bent on keepin' his family alive, and he knew he'd be dead long before they ever proved this crazy notion of an O-Zone l'il Laura kept on yappin' about, so that was that......

As much as I dislike Bush, it is absolutely absurd to try to blame global warming on him or his policies. America isn't the only nation in the world contributing to the growing problem. One nation starting to implement policies to cut down the effects of pollution on the ozone layer and the environment for 4 years won't completely eradicate global warming. If every nation in the world started cutting down on CO2 emissions and making more eco-friendly fuel sources and practices mandatory it would still take decades for the effects of the last 50 years worth of destructive activities to halt. Some over-zealous critics of Bush will take anything that can remotely relate to what he and his Cabinet does and try to put the whole blame on him, as if this is a logical argument, and it isn't. Amongst the other things he isn't entirely to blame for is the deficit, the WMD's we didn't find in Iraq, but they are existent, the world hating us, all sorts of little and a few big things that some Bush-haters try to place all the blame on him for. I don't like Bush, but the difference between me these types of people is that I try to use common sense, and rational thought before I go out and start b*tching about something I don't like. Thank You for bringing this up, no doubt there will be (and have been) a few anti-Bush idiots who will make the illogical argument that he is somehow to blame for it all, or will try to take a completely off-the-wall statement and turn it into an argument that advocates their one-sided close-minded idiocy as some form of sordid fact.

I am moderate in all causes and all debates, because in this world there is nothing that is truly black or truly white, such is the nature of Mankind. He who cannot see that he is blinded by his hatred for or approval of any one topic long enough to bite his own tongue only contributes to the degradation of his own cause, and promotes his own idiocy.

Answer 8

Any president who is as dumb as Bush deserves what he gets . He has done nothing on energy policy except line the pockets of his oil friends with government money . Now for people like you this may be fine and dandy because you also get your money from the government . All of you should be forced to wear a mask on payday and just hold up a working man in line ahead of you . At least he has the option of resisting . The way you operate now its just like a molesting a child who has no tongue .
Bush has abused this nation and deserves to rot in prison . Can I make it any clearer or do you get the point now . Bush is a drunken money losing retch who broke the law in the past by using drugs and has called my constitution a GODDAMN PIECE OF PAPER . HE should be dragged from the white house by real americans and strung up .
I would lead the charge if any group of say 10,000 would meet me there armed . We can meet outside the city and plan our assault using our trucks and cars as a means to storm the white House . We as citizens must defend the constitution as our duty ,and the president elect is not and has violated his oath of office to protect and defend the constitution and uphold the laws of this land .
He is a criminal that we can not touch because he controls the Nazi police and military in washington for his protection .

Answer 9

Super funny.

Answer 10

You're right....Damn that Charles Ingalls.....