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Truth & Character Thursdays

Debatable Issues & Moral Questions

Global Warming

Do you believe in Global Warming?

It’s one of those incredibly polarizing topics where both sides are almost hostile towards each other.

Those who believe that Global Warming is a hoax believe that anyone who has bought into it doesn’t have any ability to think for themselves.

Those who believe strongly that Global Warming is real believe that those who do not are all “off-their-rocker” conspiracy theorists. 

Global warming is not just a debatable issue, it’s a polarizing issue in our society.

Personally I find it very frustrating that in our age of information and knowledge, you can find “facts” about almost anything. Data can be skewed to create desired results for both sides, so when you are looking up information it is hard to know what to actually believe.

I know people on both sides of this fence and I have been in rooms where it has been debated. To be honest, I have seen relationships almost wrecked over this issue because it becomes about more than whether global warming is real or not. It becomes a conversation of hostility towards someone who sees the issue differently which turns into disrespect and disdain for each other. Most relationships cannot withstand disdain; they simply fall apart.

We’ve lost the ability to see someone with a different opinion as simply someone with a different opinion - they’ve become our enemies.

What do you think about the issue of global warming? Do you believe it’s something we could learn to debate without creating hostility?

Recommended Book

Climate Change as Class War

May 10, 2022
ISBN: 9781788733892

Interesting Fact #1

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), "Since systematic scientific assessments began in the 1970s, the influence of human activity on the warming of the climate system has evolved from theory to established fact."

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Interesting Fact #2

The current warming trend is different because it is clearly the result of human activities since the mid-1800s, and is proceeding at a rate not seen over many recent millennia.

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Interesting Fact #3

Earth-orbiting satellites and new technologies have helped scientists see the big picture, collecting many different types of information about our planet and its climate all over the world. These data, collected over many years, reveal the signs and patterns of a changing climate.

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Quote of the day

“They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. Basic science.” ― Karl Pilkington

Article of the day - Climate change is an obvious myth – how much more evidence do you need?

Climate change is a myth. We all know this, deep down. Some of you reading this may have been taken in by the fear-mongering governments or corrupt scientists so have been brainwashed into thinking climate change is a real thing that “threatens all of humanity” or some other nonsense, but it’s just that: nonsense. When you look closely at it, the so-called evidence for climate change, or “global warming” or “warmageddon” or “planetary death spiral” or whatever they’re calling it these days, it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.

Take changes in sea level. They keep banging on about how the warming of the atmosphere causes rising sea levels, but if that was happening we’d have seen it by now! It’s been countless decades since they first started predicting this, but here we still are! But they persist in trying to convince us it’s a real threat, citing places that were supposedly “lost to the waves” and we’re supposed to believe that places like Atlantis, Miami or Skegness actually existed? You believe that rubbish and you probably believe we landed on Ganymede! And you’re an idiot, so there’s no hope for you.

And where does this rise in sea level supposedly come from – melting glacial ice? Like there was at any point massive blocks of ice just floating around in the ocean? You ever leave an ice cube in your drink last longer than five minutes? It melts, and yet we’re meant to believe these “ice caps” lasted millions of years. They’re not even trying to be convincing any more.

Thwaites Glacier in Western Antarctica.   A major ice sheet in western Antarctica View image in fullscreen

A “sheet”, of “ice”? What’s next; “garlic bread”? Photograph: HANDOUT/AFP/Getty Images

And don’t get me started on this supposed food crisis. Charging £150 for a single loaf of bread? Are we supposed to believe this is due to widespread agricultural collapse brought about by climate change? Or, as is far more likely, is it a price-fixing conspiracy by the global bakery mega-corporation? When 78% of all food in this country is sold by Greggs, OF COURSE you’re going to see this sort of thing happening. It’s been nearly a century since he took office and I, like many, think Chancellor Farage was a great man, but he dropped the ball on that one.

It’s the same with these hypothetical mass extinctions, as if that’s anything to do with climate change. It’s just opportunistic cherry picking by these cynical and manipulative scientists. Harsh fact is, a lot of species go extinct, but that’s just nature. Dinosaurs went extinct millions of years before we humans ever appeared, are we supposed to take the blame for that too? Doesn’t mean I’m happy that we lost the elephants, tigers, pandas, salamanders, cows and poodles, but I don’t feel guilty about it either.

People tell me cows were once bred domestically. Can you imagine? This was supposedly stopped because they caused significant environmental damage due to methane and deforestation, but we all know it was orchestrated by the synthetic meat companies. They obviously got rid of all cattle to ensure their current global dominance. Just think; if they hadn’t killed all the cows, we’d still be slaughtering them today!

Prim'Holstein cows standing by milk churns in the field of a dairy farm in Sainte-Colombe-en-Bruilhois, southwestern France.View image in fullscreen

Cows: on a par with dragons and unicorns. Photograph: JEAN-PIERRE MULLER/AFP/Getty Images

Then there’s this “extreme weather” nonsense. I’ve not noticed any changes in the weather outside of the norm. Clueless clime change believers keep telling me it’s a global change so that doesn’t mean anything, but I LIVE ON THE GLOBE, so I’d notice any changes wouldn’t I? Duh! But there haven’t been any changes, obviously. There are no more storms now than there was when I was a kid. I barely get struck by lightning more than once a month, maybe every three weeks at most, and it’s never done me any harm and I’ll kill anyone who says otherwise!

But it’s with these weather worries that these manipulative scientists really give the game away. Urging us to use more wind power but complaining about all the hurricanes we keep having? They got us all to convert to solar power decades ago but keep whining about prolonged sunny spells? MAKE YOUR MINDS UP!

Some of them even go so far as to say it’s climate change that’s causing forced migration of millions of people. But that’s clearly because everyone has solar cars and jetpacks and matter transporters now, so why would they stay in one place, with or without devastating environmental damage spurring them on.

It’s all a bit convenient, isn’t it, all this palaver over climate change? Weird how 99.9999% of all scientists purportedly agree that it’s definitely happening and our most powerful quantum computers are certain to over a million decimal places that it’s our fault? Weird how they’re saying this now, at exactly the same time when they need all the volunteers they can get for the moon and Mars colonies. What’s more likely; that human industrial activity actually does lead to climate change, or that it’s all a massive meticulous centuries-long ruse to convince people that leaving Earth is a good idea? Obviously, it’s the latter. These scientists have no shame or respect.

I can’t say I’m not tempted to go myself, though. I’d rather live on another planet, than on one where every aspect of your life is subject to rigorous scientific control. Nobody should have to put up with that crap.

Question of the day - Do you believe that global warming is something that can be debated without hostility?

Debatable Issues & Moral Questions

Do you believe that global warming is something that can be debated without hostility?