One of the arguments that often comes up during discussions on global warming, it’s even come up here on SEB, is that some of the folks pushing global warming look like they’re in it to make a buck. While it’s certain that some of them are, the implication seems to be that this is just something those people dreamed up recently, but I can remember hearing about the potential for global warming back when I was a kid and scientists had been talking about it well before I was born. Take the following clip from a 1957 episode of the Bell Telephone Hour titled “The Unchained Goddess.” It pretty much says what’s being said today, but well before global warming was something most folks had ever heard of:
I find it hard to believe that people hoping to make a quick buck over a phony crisis would take some 50 years to do it. That shows one helluva foresight and long-range planning.
Found via Boing Boing.
It shows how ignorant people were (and still are) as to how the natural world actually works. The climate is changing, it has always been changing and it will continue to change with or without our help.
Why do people conveniently keep forgetting that we are at the tail end of an ice age? What happens in an ice age? It gets really cold. What happens when the ice age ends? The climate gradually warms up and shit starts melting!
What is happening is not the result of our input, the Earth’s climate is returning to “normal”. Did we forget that fossil tree samples show that millions of years ago there were NO cold periods in the year? The earth and its lifeforms seem to have survived that pretty darned well.