louisvillefisherman said:
To think there was once a 2000 foot high glacier where I am now sitting. I suppose "global warming " melted that? Oh wait. . It did! Long before man could be blamed for it.
Yep, where I live on the coast of SC used to be under 100 feet of water. The remains of fossilized coral and shellfish such as scallops can be found where they dredged the ICW. South Carolina was waterfront property as far inland as Columbia.
A little farther north at the NC Outer Banks, the Pamlico Sound used to be a vast expanse of marsh, which became a sound as sea levels rose.....long before we were burning coal. That land formation itself is moving toward the NC mainland as the ocean takes sand off the ocean side of the barrier islands and washes it in through the inlets, where it is deposited on the sound side. This already happened on SC's coast. All of the small inlets between Cape Romain and the NC line are the remains of where there was a large sound, and the barrier islands slowly moved toward land until they finally met. The small marshes and swashes are what remain of that large sound.
The earth began as a ball of fire, then it turned into a ball of ice. Then it thawed back out. There's some climate change for you. How about el nino and la nina? EVERYTHING in nature is subject to continual change.
When they began earth day back in the 1970's they were worried about the earth entering another ice age. A decade later, when the numbers didn't support their theory, they changed to the fear of global warming. So which is it? Or is it like politics....they just go whichever way the wind blows?
While I can't say for certain that CO2 emissions are contributing to global warming, I think a large contributor is the fact that we have urbanized everything by cutting down all the trees and creating concrete jungles. All that asphalt and concrete with no shade has to have some effect. I can tell you for a fact that it certainly has an effect on water quality of rivers and oceans, because if the rainwater cannot percolate through the ground, where it is instead flushed across oil-soaked driveways, and pesticide-soaked yards, and into nearby bodies of water,it has a detrimental effect.
Oh, and one more thing....I really hate light pollution, so, tell all those global warming crybabies if they want to lower CO2 emissions, make sure to turn off all those nightlights (street lights) before they stick their pacifier in their mouth and go to sleep. That is unless they are afraid of the dark.
