Comments on: Whatever Happened To Recyling?

By: Sara

Sara — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:29:11 +0000

This reminds me of the whole ozone layer hysteria of the early ’90′s. First, there was a hole in the ozone layer caused by CFC’s; however, the hole was over ANTARCTICA. THEN, the hole was a "moving hole." which could patch itself up every now and then. Now, no one talks about it. Interesting….

By: est__

est__ — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:29:11 +0000

AGREED!!! I thought the world was getting warmer. But where i am it is really cold. [and its summer!!!]

Have a nice day =]

By: maddy

maddy — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:29:11 +0000

hav 2 ask captain planet.

By: camo4213

camo4213 — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:29:11 +0000

i think we should all buy big trucks and remove our catalytic converters on all cars, just to prove that humans arent making as big of an impact on global warming as al gore says (you know the al gore who also claimed that he invented the internet, he basically just says what he wants even though its wrong)

By: Ken M

Ken M — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:29:11 +0000

I am not sure what you are asking here.

Americans are close to recycling at their greatest rate of all time. Recycling certainly helps in the fight to prevent climate change in that it generally uses less energy which means less CO2 production.

As for climate change. 1) CO2 has been increasing in the atmosphere since the early 1700s (and really got going in the 1850s) with the start of the industrial revolution and the burning of fossil fuels. 2) Climate has always varied. The question is what level of impact are human activities having on present climate. The answer is that present scientific research suggest that humans are having a good deal of influence.

By: Mattfan4life

Mattfan4life — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:29:11 +0000

I agree with you , I don’t believe in it either

By: -RKO-

-RKO- — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:29:11 +0000

Recycling is still ‘alive and well’.
Planting trees is still a great idea.
Global warming is ‘real’.
Our addiction to OIL is only part of the cause of ‘so-called’ global warming. Vehicle emissions from gas-guzzling SUVs certainly contributes to it, but smoke-belching factories that pollute the air also is a big factor. Global warming is a cyclical event that the Earth goes through over centuries. Our man-made Industrial Revolution has disrupted that natural order of things, and the cycle is out of sync with nature. That means polar ice caps are melting faster than nature (polar bears, sea levels, etc.) can adapt. Which, in turn, will cause severe floods, hurricanes and other severe weather patterns along both coasts of both major oceans. While you might not be affected by it (depending on how old you are), you can almost certainly bet that your grandchildren or great-grandchildren will suffer the consequences of our squalor. So, when your beautiful grandchild crawls up on your lap and asks, "Gee, Grandma, how come you didn’t do anything to resolve the global warming issues?" – what will your answer be?????
It’s imperative that we take global warming and the ozone depletion issues seriously – NOW! And, of course, it’s just as important that we continue to REduce, REuse, and REcycle in order to maintain the delicate ecological balance between all men, plants and animals so that we all are able to survive on this planet.
Anyone who thinks they can continue to squander Earth’s precious natural resources, without consequences to future generations, is appallingly self-absorbed. -RKO- 06/27/07

By: Kanwal S

Kanwal S — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:29:11 +0000

Watch Inconvenient truth
An oscar winning documentry by El Gore..
Made me belive in Global warming

By: gergreg_2000

gergreg_2000 — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:29:11 +0000

Whatever happened to planting a tree or recycling? More people recycle now then ever. People still plant trees and forestry management is much better now then in past decades.

Why don’t we ride bikes? For most parts of the US, the infrastructure was built on the premise that driving would be the mechanism for people getting from place to place. As a result, most urban development is too spread out to effectively support walking or biking to work.

What about the dust bowl? The dust bowl wasn’t the product of global warming, but poorly managed and intensive land use. Farmers sucked every last drop of water out of the soil in areas that received very little water with the expectation that so much rain would fall in a given year. When a series of drought years occurred, so little water remained in the soil that little held the soil together thus creating dust bowl conditions. There are most certainly lessons to be taken from the dust bowl with respect to current land use practices and short term thinking with respect to global warming, but it’s not an example of global warming itself.

By: 3DM

3DM — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:29:11 +0000

RKO said, "So, when your beautiful grandchild crawls up on your lap and asks, "Gee, Grandma, how come you didn’t do anything to resolve the global warming issues?" – what will your answer be?????"

Thirty to forty years ago, environmental activists choked the nuclear energy industry in the US to a trickle. This was achieved via scare tactics and deception of the American public, often spouting scientific evidence of the dangers of nuclear energy. The sad truth is that we now know that all those fears were unfounded, that we lost INCREDIBLE capital momentum, and that we sorely need cleaner sources of energy today regardless of the presence of global warming.

So, what are those activists telling their grandchildren today? If they are teaching them about global warming, are they adding in the part about being largely responsible for the problem today due to their myopic , reactionary, and scientifically unsound dogma?

I’m not betting on it.

And when the global warming hysteria is over with and we are all left with the aftermath, it will once again be up to the industrious among us to get the world back on its feet and functioning…while the enviros sit back, like roadworkers leaning on their shovels, telling the heavy-lifters how they could be doing their jobs better.