Thursday, March 31, 2005

Global Warming - Good? Bad?

"Ford Motor Co. said Thursday it will write a report about global warming, including details on emissions from Ford vehicles and factories, in response to complaints from some shareholders that the nation's second biggest automaker isn't doing enough to reduce pollution." This according to Business Week Online.

I don't want this blog to be just another political pundit page. But nothing frosts my patuti like this global warming fraud. Everyone, I think, agrees that there was one degree of global warming in the last 100 years. There have been times in history when the temperature has gone up or down by more than one degree in a century. There have been times in history when the global temperature was much higher than now. I think that is all that everyone agrees on.

The things we don't agree on are, and I would claim have no way to know: Will additional increases create big problems? Will additional increases actually create a better climate? How much, if any, of the increase is caused by man? Can man do anything to stop or reverse the increase regardless of whether it is man caused or God caused? Will the cost of doing extraordinary efforts to make a change be worse than the potential if we do nothing?

Truly we are called by God to be good stewards of His creation. Therefore we should do all we can reasonably do to preserve and conserve resources and protect life.

2 comments:

Brother Steve said...
This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
Brother Steve said...

My favorite part is when "they" blame a part of global warming on the belching of cows. From a comedic standpoint, this is classic!

Fraud or not, worrying about the "global climate" pales in comparison to what is happening everyday on the streets right in front of our eyes. Sure, man’s pollution of this planet MAY bring us to extinction in 10,000 years. OR, man may bring man to extinction within the next fifty. Hmmm… 10,000 or 50?

Bah! I better stop before I get on another rant.