The climate change debate continues.

[kgwilson]

Simply put, the planet is 4.5 billion years old. Life began about 3.8 billion years ago and from that point till now sediments and material from live organisms that died have been producing fossil fuels. So in the last 2-300 years & more so in the last 100 years humans have been burning it and emitting all the waste in to the atmosphere.

 

The jury is out as to how much we have left but estimates are that we have burned our way through about 50% of the energy stored in fossil fuels in the last 200 years that took 3.8 billion years to create & what is left is getting harder to extract. 

 

Still we have people who deny that chucking the waste from burning fossil fuels in to our atmosphere is helping to change our climate, now very rapidly.

 

 

[onetrack]

I have a copy of the American World Almanac and Book of Facts, for 1975 (published 1974). It's full of interesting and majorly diverse subjects, and in amongst the mind-boggling array of information, one scientist makes the point that continuing to burn fossil fuels at an ever-increasing level will almost certainly lead to global warming. That's from a scientist from over 50 years ago.

 

The problem that many fail to see is that fossil fuel production and use has continued to increase every year for over 125 years. When there was only a relatively small level of production and use, the effects weren't felt. Now that fossil fuels are consumed at huge and ever-increasing levels annually, at some point, we have to say, "Enough!".

 

Besides, I don't like giving vast amounts of money to already-super-rich fossil fuel producers and retailers, and I don't like what the oil-rich countries do with my petro-dollars.