I Read an Article About the New Science Advisor to the POTUS Today...

Weather runs in many different cycles...There is the hundred, fifty, ten, and even thousand year cycles...In the 70's I remember them saying that we were heading for another mini ice age like the one in the late 1700s and 1800s. We are not experiencing global warming...We are experiencing global weather... These creatures spouting this drivel are going to destroy the world if they do this...

I agree that, to a point, we may be experiencing a natural global weather pattern but there is a VERY strong indication that human use of fossil fuels and the destruction of forests has contributed significantly to the rise in temperature. People who deny that, I'm afraid, have their heads stuck in the place where the sun don't shine. The trouble is that, even if we replanted all the forests and stopped using coal and oil NOW, we cannot say for sure whether the global temperature would stop rising or even return to 'normal' (assuming that we know what 'normal' is). In 5, 10, 20 or 50 years time will the Global Anthem be an adaptation of Robert Heinlen's "Green Hills of Earth"? "We remember the sweet, fresh breezes On the globe that gave us birth; Oh, to rest our eyes on the friendly skies And the cool, green hills of Earth!" (adapted from: http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.co.uk/1999/10/green-hills-of-earth-robert-heinlein.html ) The problem with many politicians and scientific advisors is that they have read too much Science Fiction and think that, because some writers have accurately forecast things that later came to pass, they can turn fiction into reality (or, more accurately, think of reality in the same way that fiction writers are able to 'push the envelope'). I still think (and hope) that the nuking of Yellowstone is not a serious proposition and more like the thoughts of a child who wonders what would happen if he turned the drain tap in the basement (because he can) but doesn't do so because he knows he mustn't!

I just watched a NASA special on the Rain Forests...They have a satellite that can see the oxygen output of the rain forest ecosystem...During the day oxygen is released by photosynthesis, but then at night, instead of dispersing, the oxygen is reabsorbed into the contained ecosystem of the rain forest. It is not the rain forest, but the plankton in the ocean that provides the earth with the necessary oxygen to exist as we know it. I learned that in biology in high school 40 years ago. Well, NASA can now prove it with their nifty new technology... On another note. If they start messing with the geothermic of yellowstone or any of the other similar areas, we may as well kiss our bu*ts goodbye...

I think that they will spend our tax dollars to try...I mean they are unending right...I really doubt that this would work though...How do they think they can shade the whole world? They can't even shade the ozone hole over Australia and they have tried...

And another thing...The ozone is repairing itself...One hole is actually gone now and the other is much smaller than it used to be...And they do admit that it was not human intervention that closed the one and shrank the other...

The fact is that if they do shade the world, or even a portion of it, plant life will die, since it depends on sunshine to live. Without plant life, animal life will die. Even if we don't consider ourselves animals, we will die. What will we eat, dirt? I hadn't heard that about the ozone layer over Australia, but it doesn't surprise me. It varies according to seasons, anyway, so why not in accordance to some larger cycles that we don't know about?

We are already destroying the oceans with plastic...There is a cluster of plastic bottles etc. in the Pacific ocean that is as big as a continent...We are killing the plankton in the ocean which is the biggest oxygen producing agent in the world. If we even block a small fraction of the sunlight, ALL life on earth will suffer and much will die...