Now I am really worried about Global Warming
Sunday mornings is my official hockeytime. Other forty-ish men and I (although I am almost the oldest) gather, don a black or white jersey and play the game. No.. the carbon content exhaled is not a concern.
Usually the dressing room talk is about sports.. golf.. the leafs..the flames..the oilers.. hockey fights..not this week. This week was all about global warming and the fact we have to do something. Concrete finisher guy recalled that in his youth it was never this warm..that we had more snow... Ontario transplant regaled us with driving on lake Simcoe to go ice fishing 15 years ago, the lawyerman declared that he took the subway to work as they were an environmentally concerned family. Never before have we ever had such an intellectual topic. I questioned the science in my role as shit disturber and was hooted down. My intellectual input that was are one cold week away from stopping to talk about it was soundly thrashed.
Earlier in the week I overheard a casual conversation carried on by our ceo about clean coal and was amazed by how knowledgeable he was on the carbon dioxide emission problem with such a technology.
What do I really think? I think the earth is self modulating. Today the CO2 content in air is 360 ppm ish versus 191 ppm back in the 1800's (how they know this is beyond me) I think that as the CO2 content rises plant growth increases and temperatures warm and plants get larger and the content modulates., This is how the earth has decreased its levels historically from the 470 ppm range or higher. I believe this to be true. I can passionately argue these facts and make believers out of those upon the fence.
On the other hand-- its a big gamble that this works- that everything evens out. hey lets polute its OK. Being thrifty with our assets is a core value and we ought to follow that rule. There is lots of economic growth in going green. There is no reason that we not put our collective intellect to use and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. Lets go build some nuclear reactors...
One thing is for sure... if the hockeymen of calgary start talking global warming on superbowl sunday--- its a hot topic.
posted by hockeyman @ 5:47 AM
2 Comments:
I think the current hysteria over global warming is just that. I'm sure that human industrial activity is having some effect on the atmosphere, but if it's truly us making the climate change, then we're screwed, because it's already too late.
But everything I've read points to this being part of the natural cycle of change.
Hello again! =)
With the way USA hockey has been this past year or so, hell will have to freeze over before the cup comes back here. That would help the warming...*LOL*
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