(hello randoms who have added me + CLIMATE CHANGE FAIL.)
Hi, people!
Just noticed that a few people have added me in the past few weeks - if I haven't added you back it's because I didn't know you added me, and I don't know who you are! There's an entry on the top of my LJ (which normally says Friends Only, but doesn't because Photobucket is being lame) - could you please drop a comment saying hello and where you met me? I'm a friendly person, promise, I just like knowing a bit about who I'm letting into my LJ.
In other news:
AAAARGH, PEOPLE. What is happening in Copenhagen?
Dear people-who-do-not-believe-in-climate-change,
I have three things to say to you.
1) Do not ever ask a scientist for incontestable "proof". You should have been taught in Grade 8 that nothing is ever certain and no theory is ever provable (they just become accepted as fact - such as Darwin's theory of evolution), and any conclusion is a matter of looking at the available evidence (and the error associated with it) and then making your own interpretation. Most scientists have interpreted it as man-made - if one doesn't, that doesn't mean the whole thing comes crasing down.
2. Even if we can't 100% prove it - do you REALLY want to take a chance with the future of the world because the growth rate of your economy is going to go down? Try Bangladesh and the Pacific Islands being the first to go under rising sea levels, and natural disasters and drought. It won't happen overnight (no matter what Jake Gyllenhall tells you), but eventually your country will pay much more than you may sacrifice now.
3. EVEN IF - and that's a BIG IF - it is "proven" that climate change is not being 'caused' only by/by emissions - ISN'T IT PRETTY OBVIOUS THAT IF YOU PUMP TONS OF GAS INTO AN ATMOSPHERE, SOMETHING is going to happen - something we may not necessarily be able to predict because it's never happened to the Earth before? Leave the Earth untouched and she won't screw with you.
No love,
Me. (and my descendants, who will inherit an increasingly shite world.)
PS: I am by no means a greenie - my habits could be a lot better, but I'm trying and I'm aware, which is more than most people.)
Just noticed that a few people have added me in the past few weeks - if I haven't added you back it's because I didn't know you added me, and I don't know who you are! There's an entry on the top of my LJ (which normally says Friends Only, but doesn't because Photobucket is being lame) - could you please drop a comment saying hello and where you met me? I'm a friendly person, promise, I just like knowing a bit about who I'm letting into my LJ.
In other news:
AAAARGH, PEOPLE. What is happening in Copenhagen?
Dear people-who-do-not-believe-in-climate-change,
I have three things to say to you.
1) Do not ever ask a scientist for incontestable "proof". You should have been taught in Grade 8 that nothing is ever certain and no theory is ever provable (they just become accepted as fact - such as Darwin's theory of evolution), and any conclusion is a matter of looking at the available evidence (and the error associated with it) and then making your own interpretation. Most scientists have interpreted it as man-made - if one doesn't, that doesn't mean the whole thing comes crasing down.
2. Even if we can't 100% prove it - do you REALLY want to take a chance with the future of the world because the growth rate of your economy is going to go down? Try Bangladesh and the Pacific Islands being the first to go under rising sea levels, and natural disasters and drought. It won't happen overnight (no matter what Jake Gyllenhall tells you), but eventually your country will pay much more than you may sacrifice now.
3. EVEN IF - and that's a BIG IF - it is "proven" that climate change is not being 'caused' only by/by emissions - ISN'T IT PRETTY OBVIOUS THAT IF YOU PUMP TONS OF GAS INTO AN ATMOSPHERE, SOMETHING is going to happen - something we may not necessarily be able to predict because it's never happened to the Earth before? Leave the Earth untouched and she won't screw with you.
No love,
Me. (and my descendants, who will inherit an increasingly shite world.)
PS: I am by no means a greenie - my habits could be a lot better, but I'm trying and I'm aware, which is more than most people.)