Recently read a history book saying 'Norway was warmer back then"...looked into some other historic documents. Seems the worlds temperature has been fluctuating for some time. And yes some trees, animals, ect have suffered quite a bit. Who is to say that is not a normal part of life? would we all be better off if the dinosaurs had not died out?
Not that I have any intentions of stopping any green practices I can manage. recycling, reusing, reducing consumption, composting, and such are all habits that are obviously good for my family. (oh and others)
The long term(as in years, not 10day forcast) weather predictions of recent day are generally wrong, by several degrees. Not that there will be no ramifications, weather has always been a major factor in human death. And there is much good man can do to keep weather at bay (leave the sand dunes on beaches alone to act as buffers against sea storms) But getting all into a panic over the world just causes folk who can look at the big picture to assume the fear mongering idiots know nothing.
Instead of fear tactics, we aught to be looking at local ways folk are effected. Don't tell Joe schmo that using electricity will make the world hot in 2050, tell him the coal burning plant is putting out pollution RIGHT NOW, that is bad for him to breath. That is what got tons of filters in the PA area (no longer the dirty city)
Anyway, point is, the far distant future is uncertain, the immediate effects are easy to see, and prove. Maybe we could bring the out of site issues to folks minds, rather than trying to incite fear over unproven science theories.
On the vaccine, it is mostly just the flu, but I am glad of all that fear hype, less folk are sending their kids to the day care with fevers dosed up on Tylenol to buy themselves 4 hours to work. More folk are actually washing their hands like mom said, and less folk are going to work in spite of the flu. Some are even keeping kids home when Mom has the flu (cause kid is prolly carrying) But no I prolly wont get the vaccine myself.
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