You
may joke, but I was on the fence until the last year or so.

It's the media/government crap that's pushed me over the edge to err on the side of the GW deniers.

I mean, pushing up the cost of essential fuels is never going to have any other effect than taking money from each and every one of us and allowing those that took it to buy another duck house etc...

Those ads telling me to drive 5 miles a week less...well, if my factory was knocked down and rebuilt 1/2 mile closer to my house (1/2 * 2 * 5 days a week), then I could do this; of course, the waste and emmissions would probably offset the 5 miles per week less CO2 I'm pumping into the atmosphere, but hey!

It the actions that make me believe that man-made crap has nothing to do with it, i.e. if scientists were advising governments that CO2 really is a bad thing for the 'environment' then surely by now, less CO2 making alternatives would be easy to use.

Trains, buses etc....are nowhere to be seen in most of the country, and are more expensive (still!) than using your own private car, so instead of going for the option that might cost more yet produce less pollution, the option is to go for the easy target and make a load more money as people can't change their habits (driving to work), unless there are alternatives to getting there.

It's those sorts of things that made me start to think that there is nothing in it, apart from money for those proponents of GW.

PS. I notice they call it 'Climate Change' since the average global temp stabalised around 1992.
(dchurch bah, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 13:54, Reply)