Fraud called "Global Warming"

[Dawnseeker]

Montedison, I was being facetious. I did not mean to diminish your point of view. My point was simply that an increase in temperature allows people to inhabit a larger percentage of the planet.

The idea that portions of the planet would become arid and somehow uninhabitable or no-good for farming due to a marginal increase in temperature (I think the most dire prediction is something like 2 degrees Fahrenheit in the next 200 years) is not correct for a couple reasons. If you look at the equatorial regions of the planet (the hottest parts), many are lush, green and vibrant, with the obvious exception of deserts. Rising temperatures do not create deserts; foliage, soil composition, geography and whether patterns do. Indeed, the expansion of deserts, where it has occurred, has been largely due to humans clearing forests and overgrazing cattle, clearing out the natural plant life that holds fertile topsoil in place.

I am not denying that humans have an incredible capacity to alter and destroy our environment, and certainly conservation (both of energy and the environment) is a worthy objective that we should be focusing time and resources on. This is the only planet we have and just because we're not heating it up does not mean I think we should turn it into a wasteland.

That said, lies and hoaxes designed to create the perception of a threat are a very bad idea. Without getting political, that statement applies to far more situations than Anthropogenic Global Warming. Let's confront this issue with facts and reason -- the true tools of science -- not unproven allegations and bad science.