Questions that we need to answer about Global Warming before we do anything about it.

First question in all this Global Warming debate should be: Is global warming bad? I personally wouldn’t mind if it warmed up a bit. Yes some animals may not like it but others will thrive in a warmer environment.  Seriously, we need to way the pros and cons of a warming environment.  Why do we just assume it is bad.  Was the global warming that happened at the end of the ice ages bad?

Second if it is bad, then what is causing it? The climate is changing, yes, but hasn’t the climate on Earth always changed? Even before humans, the earth went through ice ages and warming stages. Who says man is causing it? If man is contributing, then how much? Is it even a significant amount?

Then we should ask ourselves, what can we do to stop it?

Finally we need to ask how are we going to get the rest of the world (especially China) to stop burning oil and go along with it?

I find this green movement and global warming crap infuriating. We can prove the climate is getting warmer but the other questions remained unanswered and unproven. We shouldn’t be doing anything to stifle the economy until those questions are indeed answered and proven. But instead everyone just jumps to conclusions saying its bad and that we are causing it and buying hybrids will solve it, and that anyone who thinks otherwise is a global warming denier and an idiot. It is ridiculous.

Here we are facing another recession and coal plants are being shut down across the nation, regulations discourage entrepreneurs from mining or drilling for more resources, and off shore drilling is being restricted. We are a nation that runs on energy and if we restrict it, the economy will suffer.

Answer those questions and if we are doing a lot of damage then we need to get working on providing a renewable source of energy. Until we have that new energy that meets our demands, we need to drill for oil and keep burning that coal.

Bottom line is, restricting energy before answering those questions and providing a suitable replacement is restricting growth and development and is complete nonsense.