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Alaska's Mt. Redoubt Has Erupted
alaskana98 writes "Alaska's Mt. Redoubt volcano has erupted 3 times, with the first event starting at 10:38 PM Alaska standard time.
The ash cloud is estimated to be higher than 50,000 feet. So far, only light ash fall is predicted for areas north
of Anchorage."
You'll be singing a different tune once you're forced - under penalty of death - to convert to Islam, recite Mao's Little Red Book, and give the black power salute every 10 seconds, Mr. I-love-the-Islamofascistmexicosocialistcheeseeatingsurendermonkeyhomosexuals.
Actually, you are the one that is confused.
First, I never said it wasn't a problem. Second, your confusing the argument from a certain sect of people as to why we shouldn't be imposing restrictions on the freedoms of people with what you think has happened. The sea level has been rising and weather patterns have been shifting since Man started keeping records. It's not a static element that all the sudden started looking different. But the way you make it out to be is that there is some pristine picture that we need to return back to. That would be impossible even if humans were the cause and removed from the planet today. The earth, weather, sea levels, and everything else will change and continue to change independent of our existence. We will never stop those changes and regardless of what you want to think, life will adapt and go on.
If the notion behind this is scientific and not some religious endeavor where science is has been turned into a religion, then you should listen to them because that is how science works. You can't claim to be scientific if your not including the discussion of the opposition. Well, you can claim to be but you will end up looking like a bunch of religious pseudoscience zealots pushing an agenda. It is like ID for mother earth.
And yes, in the past people have rejected the idea that water vapor wasn't being accounted for properly in the models, they have rejected the ideas that solar variances causes the inputs to change, they have rejected ideas about the faulty data being used and mistakes made by researchers. And they rejected all of that because of some tie to an oil company or political group that was opposite of their beliefs only to eventually be forced to consider it all later when their models didn't work or those anti global warming people ended up showing proof of the matter.
It's almost like you can't talk about their god unless you repeat what they say. But that has nothing to do with the arguments put forth by any political side. The arguments or solutions to the problems put forth by the pro global warming crowd don't fix anything, it only limits and restricts one persons freedoms in order to enrich someone else. Take Shell oil for instance, they gave up on wind and solar as being too expensive to focus on making the existing stuff cleaner and all you global warming freaks about started crying because it wasn't your way.
Why does it need to change? Why can't coal be cleaned? Just because it isn't in practice today doesn't mean it won't be tomorrow. Why must wind and solar power be used instead? Why can't gas and oil exhaust be cleaned? why must cars be more efficient instead of just having cleaner exhausts?
You see, the problem is largely that lack of options allowed by your side. You side wants to limit individual freedoms and impose some central authority over people in ways and places it never has been before. Political solutions like Kyoto does nothing to reduce Co2 pollution, it only limits certain countries and encourages others to increase their production. Of the 138 some countries signed on, less the 40 have emissions caps. You have buffoons like Al Gore creating and showing misleading propaganda pieces that some courts have ruled to be fundamentally flawed and inaccurate- and he has the answer, spend money at his company so he can be rich.
Yea, strange that.