OBLIC'S PROFILE

author=NicoB
Huge thanks to everybody who has subscribed to FE. Over 200 subscribers...man, you guys are so awesome; you really motivate me to continue pushing forward. I promise I won't let you down! ^ o ^)7

PRESSURE RISING! Naw, I hope you make what is already an epic game... epicer...?

Also, I can't believe how much I jumped... "cashmoney" helps with maker score, but my post count is becoming frightfully high! 70 some posts last month... that's more than 2 posts a day!!!

...at least it's helped make my dungeon tan more milky!

Alright, let me first make a distinction between how the terms "global warming" and "global climate change" have been defined, at least to the best of my knowledge. (I avoided this early on to try to hide my true colors and avoid offending anyone off the bat)

Global warming is a pseudo-scientific term that was extremely bastardized by the media and many political organizations, most notably, Al Gore. When global warming was first brought to light (at least in recent years), Al Gore jumped all over it and more or less manipulated (not him personally, I'm sure) some of the data to make some TRUE finding to look far worse than they really were. It was an interesting scientific thought that was destroyed by overzealous people that cared a bit too much about it, mostly for the wrong reasons.

Global climate change is a much more objective and scientific view of essentially the same thing. It seems to me, this term was created to reboot interest in a topic that was so bastardized and tainted, that people started to lose interest. It looks more at the whole picture as to how and why the global climate is changing, not just the human impact.

Now, I truly and wholeheartedly (damn, that's all one word?) believe that global climate change happens. This has been supported with countless pieces of scientific evidence. It is commonly believed that the earth has gone through several ice ages, caused by different things. It is also believed that the earth was much MUCH hotter (an average of 60 C) at one point, before one of these ice ages. But, the question that is on most people's minds is not what has happened. Rather, people are more worried about what is happening now, which makes sense.

What do I believe? For the most part, I think we are in one of the warming points of the natural cycle. Are we, humans, having an effect? I'm sure we are; it would be ignorant to think we weren't. But what I question is the degree to which we are having an affect. Honestly, I don't think we are contributing a great deal to this cycle. Less than 1% (if it is possible to quantify such a thing).

That being said, I want to clarify that I don't think we should go nuts and squander our resources and destroy, or otherwise make uninhabitable, a habitable planet (not directed at you facesforce; I find your philosophies intriguing, if nothing else). I think pollution and littering is stupid, if for no other reason than it looks, smells, feels, and sometimes even tastes and sounds shitty.

My point? Conservation is important, but I think people need to focus more on what is plausible and tangible, rather than a concept that is still in contention, even amongst the scientific community.

Sorry I took as long as I did to respond. I was hoping to get more points of view before weighing-in.

Damn... I look away for a couple days, and shit gets real. I'll try to form my opinion as delicately as possible. For now, I have to get ready for work, and if there is a lull, I'll type up my two cents, even though my thoughts were pretty much covered by others.

(I now realize a large group of drunken, belligerent engineers in a hot crowded bar is far less unruly than the internet at large... I mean that in the nicest way possible! :) )

You can tell a difference, but you do have to look for it a bit...

Huh... I thought you would definitely take advantage of a day like today.

How goes progress anyway?