On the topic of warming up, I read an article yesterday that said that global warming might not actually be happening, but is a cause of different factors, such as a normal warming phase, displacement of instruments, and the surroundings of weather instruments. If this is true, a lot of us (except for you Hummer-drivers) might really look like idiots, huh?
Not necessarily. Even though some of us - and a lot of the environmentalists - were running around like chickens with our head cut off, that doesn't necessarily make us idiots. Let me compare this to the swine flu scare. When swine flu broke out last April, the first thing I thought of was Pandemic. Pandemic is a Flash game where you take control of a virus, and use strategy to evolve and take out the world. It seems that many people were thinking along the same lines, because after that, every precaution was taken to ensure that swine flu didn't spread. As of the start of this month, less than 20,000 people had actually died because of swine flu. However, stores and public places still place hand sanitizer everywhere, and people are still more careful about personal hygiene. It would seem that swine flu, although far from the epidemic it was supposed to be, actually benefited the world.
Compare that to global warming. We have another problem here, though people seem less worried about it. This is probably because no human has died from global warming. Anyway, there are many people saying that we need to solve this problem right away, and it is generally accepted that global warming is a threat to our planet. If global warming is proven to be exaggerated, like swine flu, the habits would still be in place. Since oil is running out, we would still try for alternative fuels and electric cars. We would still conserve water and electricity, and try to recycle more and throw out less.
Do you think global warming is real? How much of a threat do you think it is?
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