I've tried to ignore these threads, but when I see posts comparing the conditions on earth several thousands years ago, or even 1-thousand, or 2-hundred years ago, to the conditions of today, I have to wonder what the folks suggesting that, this is the way things are, are thinking!
Let's start with the most recent comparison,
1806, 200 years ago. There were CO2 emissions from trees (Ronald Reagan's killer trees speech), there was smoke pollution from burning the trees. Cow and Horse manure fermenting...
0806, 1,000 years ago, Pretty much the same sources as in 1806.
0006, 2000 years ago, ditto
2006. We all contribute, do I really need to make a list?
The Arctic, Antarctic and Greenland Ice Caps are melting at a rate never scienticially documented prior to now.
There is much information available now documenting these changes.
It will take political leadership to change things, unfortunately that leadership is not happening from EITHER party, and never will! The folks on both sides of the political spectrum that are warning us are being called "disgruntled, quacks, etc"
Can you remember your history when the accepted belief was that the Earth was flat? That the Earth was the center of the universe? etc. The folks that told us that those "facts" were wrong were also called quacks and even heritics!
A country, a world, that can't see 50 years into the future? That is what we have become!
What is America today? American Idol contestants get more votes than are cast in the election of the leader of the free world!
I won't live another 50 years, but my neices and nephews will. Your children will. What are we going to leave them?
One of the things that always amazed me, and I know I will be flamed for this, is the attitude in NH that everything is okay, "Live Free or Die".
That is a political statement, originating in the birth of our country. It does NOT mean "anything goes" especially regarding the quality of life of residents.
NH relies on a substantial tourism trade that focuses and promotes a prestine environment. How many times have folks on this board lamented the deterierating quality of the water of Lake Winnipesaukee? When I was a child growing up on the lake during the summer months, we use to lay a rubber pipe into the water. That pipe provided us with all of our unfiltered drinking water. I can tell you that I never NEVER suffered ill effects, not even diahrea!
It certainly would be in the best economic and environmental interest for the state to take a leadership role in preventing global warming and anything else that is a threat to the environment!
Just my humble opinion...flame away
Please forgive spelling errors