Meshmar is UotD at Malaria Control

[Jason1478963]

Global warming may sound like hogwash to you but in places Where houses where built on perma frost it is very real. Places like this is where a degree or two makes a huge difference. When you see mountain tops losing more and more ice caps every year and when gone will not be able to provide precious water to streams and rivers. China is also having issues with losing towns and land to the expansion of deserts. When a majority of scientist say global warming is real it is hard to argue with. I think people are still arguing weather it is man made or not and even that is starting to lean heavily to the man made side of things. It isn't hard for me to believe its man made after working in a small coal power plant for a short period of time. I believe the numbers are approximately 1 pound(.453592 kg) of coal to 1 kilowatt-hour and about 2(.907185 kg) pounds of CO2. If you take the bill for our electric use where some of us use 3000 kwh a month your looking at approximately 3000+ pounds(1360+ kilograms) of coal. This gets to be a hideous number when your taking global amounts of coal used to generate electricity in our lifetime. They are saying the natural gas after fracking is even worse for the environment then coal with the methane leakage. I could go on and on i'm sure but I'm just sharing a bit of my view :p

What would be wrong to error on the safe side and embrace renewable energy? If we continue with Fracking for natural gas and oil how long before our water costs more then gas and oil? Who benefits from us not believing in global warming? oil companies and energy companies and? What if we get serious about adding extreme amounts of renewables? We would create jobs and cleaner air and water for our kids and grand kids. Is money more important then clean air, water, land?

[Dirk Broer]

Couldn't have said it better....Global warming is about the average temperature on the earth, not about a new minus temperature on one spot.
The whole of Siberia is stinking with mammoth dung, which was lying there frozen for some thousands of years. Complete island groups are sinking into the ocean.
A town like Murmansk is needing an artificial ice rink nowadays!